Exam 1 Flashcards
Toddlerhood spans approximately__________ years of age
1.5 – 2.5
Anticipatory set:
Ready, set…. (Wait for the child to say “go”)
On average, early intentional communication develops around ________________ of age.
8-10 months
Categorical Model: disadvantages
■ Causal link is hard to establish ■ Some children don’t fit ■ Skills differ among dx ■ Knowing label does not help plan intervention
At around ______________ the baby begins to demonstrate he/she knows he/she can influence other people’s behaviors.
9 months
Systems Model:
- Emphasizes child’s interaction with the environment.
- Modify the environment to allow child to function at most optimal level.
Define communication:
The act of using words, sounds, signs of behaviors to express or exchange information.
Joint attention develops at around what age?
9 Months
Multidisciplinary teams:(“many” disciplines)
Everyone does independent assessment, reports separately to parent/guardian.
Categorical Model: advantages
■ Access to services
■ Understandable & easy
■ Highlights differences
4 reasons why you would conduct an assessment:
- Identification: Screen to see if there is a problem
- Establish a baseline function
- Establish goals for intervention
- Measure change in intervention
What is a traditional assessment?
- conventional and norm-reference testing procedures.
- Decontextualized settings
- Narrow responses to standardized objects and procedures?
What is Tier 3 of the Rtl model?
Tertiary prevention = reduce harm
- Comprehensive evaluation
What is the “naturalist” perspective?
Impairment is characterized as a deviation from the average level of ability achieved by a similar group of people.
What is the pull-out method?
The child is being taken out of the natural environment in order to receive services
Two word phrases happens -
months
What is a “Vocabulary Burst”?
A period of rapid semantic growth at 18 months.
Give 3 examples of a Clinician Directed approach:
- Drill
- Drill Play
- Direct teaching
What is Maintenance?
To keep an immature system intact so that it is abel to reach it’s full development at a later stage.
What do we assess in emerging language?
- Play and gestures
- Communication/ language
- intent
- comprehension
- expression
Use the Hybrid Model of intervention:
When the child:
- Resistent to prompts
- Not motivated by social interactions
- Takes a long time to make decisions
D-D Model: advantages?
■ Complete detailed assessment
■ Cause is not important
■ Grounded in typical development
What is the push-in method?
The services are (planned to be) provided directly within naturally occurring situations for the child.
What assessment type uses the Test-Teach-Retest Method?
Dynamic Assessment
What is Tier 2 of the Rtl model?
Secondary prevention = reverse harm
- Progress monitoring
- Language Sample
What are you primarily assessing when you play with a child and say “Look, I found a ….” and pause while holding an object.
Expressive semantics
A child shows _______ communicative acts per minute by ____________.
5-7
24 months
What is an interdisciplinary team model?
- The child is assessed by several different specialists.
- The SLP compiles the reports and summarizes the findings when they meet with the child’s parents.
Three questions of assessment:
- Why are you assessing?
- What are you assessing?
- How are you going to assess?
Guiding question 2:
When did the problem begin, or has the child always had it? Was the onset sudden or gradual?
What is Behavior Regulation?
To request actions or objects.
When do we begin to see 2 word utterances?
18 months
What is the “normative” perspective?
Language disorders are diagnosed if it interferes with a child’s ability to meet societal expectations now or in the future.
With Interdisciplinary teams:
Everyone does an independent assessment, reports to the case coordinator who presents it to the parent.
The child is assessed by several different specialists. The SLP compiles the reports and summarizes the findings when they meet with the child’s parents. This is a _____________ team model.
Interdisciplinary
What is Elicited Production?
When we are tempting the child to say particular thing by setting up a context in which the target would would be an appropriate remark.