EXAM 2 - Ch. 8, Guided Practice in Lang. Therapy Flashcards
What are the four types of language disorders mentioned in class?
- Receptive
- Expressive
- Lang delay + another disorder
- (Prioritizing???)
What is indirect language tx?
Usually completed in individual sessions, and is designed for very young children and other clients who are mostly nonverbal.
-more naturalistic, less structured, play-oriented therapy.
What is indirect language therapy based on?
The assumption that variables observed in normally developing children are effective clinical treatment strategies for children who have an LI.
E.g., how a TD child learns is the same way a child with a language delay or lang. impairment learns.
What are descriptions (as used in lang. tx)?
The adult labels or describes what he or she believes the child is SEEING (looking at).
What is self-talk?
SLP describes what S/HE is DOING as the child looks on. (SLP is stacking blocks and says “I’m stacking blocks!”)
What is parallel talk?
The SLP describes or comments on what the CHILD IS DOING.
What are expansions?
Additions to the child’s utterance to be more grammatically correct.
Child: Doggie
SLP: Doggie is barking.
What are extensions?
Expansions of the child’s utterance, plus the expression of an additional unit of information.
-Repeat child’s utterance with additional info.
Child: Doggie.
SLP: Doggie is barking. Doggie is big.
What is the goal of language therapy?
To increase the client’s MLU
What are the two types of expansions?
Extensions
Recasts
What are recasts?
Restating what the child said with better structure, additional information, or by changing the child’s utterance into a different type of utterance.
What is direct language therapy?
For clients who use verbal expression as the primary mode of communication, but have significant delays.
What do you do in direct language therapy?
Manipulate the environment to provide opportunities to learn language (also called contrived environments)
How do you do direct language therapy? (What do you use?)
- Thematic units
- Play/Games
- Cards (w/pictures)
- Worksheets
- Functional tasks
What are thematic units?
a topic selected as the foundation for discussion and presentation in language tx.
What do goals center on improving in language tx?
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Prosody
- Pragmatics
All systems of language
What is the ultimate goal of lang. tx?
To improve communication skills; NOT increase skills in isolated aspects of language.
Two example of syntax objectives-
- Client will correctly identify four of five complete sentences spoken by the clinician.
- Client will correctly use four-word sentences to express desires.
Two example of morphology objectives-
- Client will correctly identify/point to 8 out of 10 pictured regular plural nouns.
- Client will correctly use the morphological inflections /s/ or /z/ to name four of five pictured plural nouns.
Two example of phonology objectives-
- Client will correctly identify final consonant deletions (open syllables) in 8 out of 10 occurrences in spoken words.
- Client will eliminate final consonant deletion in 8 of 10 spoken words.
Two example of pragmatics objectives-
- Client will correctly identify appropriate topics for four of five presented scenarios using pictured prompts.
- Client will correctly exhibit appropriate turn-taking behaviors during four of five conversational exchanges.
