Exam two in class review Flashcards
What is the relationship between receptive/expressive language and literacy skills?
Oral language skills lay the foundation for literacy skills
What’s a pediatric language disorder
- its a language disorder due to a known biomedical condition
-Organic
What conditions are associated with language disorders?
-Down syndrome
-Fragile x syndrome
-Fetal alc spectrum disorder
-Williams syndrome
-Autism
-TBI epilepsy, hearing loss
Developmental language disorder
-Functional
-7% of all kindergardeners
-Occurs across languages and cultures
-Life long jot a delay
-Cannot be attributed to a known biomedical condition
Risk factors of DLD
-Prematurity
-Low birth weight
-Hospitalization
-Family history of speech/language/literacy impairments
Key characteristics of DLD
-Phonological impairments
-Morphosyntactic impairments
-smaller/more shallow vocab
-Slower to learn new words
-Immature pragmatic language
Four types of Assessment tools (pediatric language disorders)
-case history: collecting information about the client and their communication disorder
—What teachers, and families are worried about
—Medical history
-Norm referenced tests: comparing a client’s performance to their peers
-Criterion referenced tests: comparing client’s skills to a certain predetermined expectation
—More useful to figure out what they know and do not know
—Set a criterion they need to get
—Ex: 80%
-Observation tools: observing communication strengths and needs in real settings
stuttering
-Interruption in the flow of speaking
-Blocks, prolongations, sound, and syllable repetitions
-Not interjections, word or phrase repetitions, hesitations
-Secondary behaviors may be present
They do not help with fluency
stuttering behaviors
syllable and sound repetition
- I ha-ha-have two cats
sound prolongation
- wwwwwwait for mmmmmmm
blocks:inability to initiate sounds
- I am…….. tired
typical disfluencies
word repetition
- I want… want a new book
phrase repetition
- i like that… like that cat
interjections
- “um, “like”, “uh”
secondary behaviors
learned attempts to move through the stuttering behavior but not always helpful
-fist clenching
-eye blinking
-tapping
Developmental Stuttering
-5% of children go through a period of disfluency between the ages of 2-6
-Of that 5%, 80% will resolve on their own
-20% will experience lifelong stuttering
-We don’t know who will recover vs who won’t, but we have risk factors to consider
Stuttering Risk factors
-Male
-Child stuttering has lasted for 6 months or more
-The child starts to stutter late (3 years old)
-Starts to stutter more
-Family history of stuttering
-The child has another speech disorder
-The child struggles with talking
-A child’s speech worries you or your family
Reasons for Stuttering Treatment for young kids
child or parent is concerned, the child is distressed when speaking and avoidant of certain speaking situations
Reasons for Stuttering Treatment for school-aged/adolescence
experiencing bullying, misunderstanding of stuttering, wants to speak easier/ w less avoidance
Reasons for Stuttering Treatment for adults
stuttering is impacting employment, relationships, identity, wants to speak easier/ w less avoidance
Cluttering
rapid/irregular speech rate, atypical pauses, maze behaviors, pragmatic issues, decreased awareness of fluency problems or moments of dysfluency, excessive disfluencies, collapsing or omitting syllables, and language formulation issues which results in breakdowns in speech clarity/ fluency
-Much rarer
Dementia
Progressive decline in memory and other cognitive functions
-Caused by many different brain diseases
-alzheimers= 60-70% of people w dementia
-Caused by structural and/or chemical changes to the brain
SLP’s role (dementia)
help the person maintain as much independence as possible; provide family with communication strategies
Language and Communication Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease in the early stages
Form: good
Content: some word-finding problems
Use: Good
Cognition: short-term/working memory problems
Language and Communication Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease in the middle stages
Form: impaired
Content: empty speech
Use: okay
Cognition: significant working memory problems
Language and Communication Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease in the late stages
impaired in all domains
fingerprint TBI
Everybody with a TBI is unique (in regards to how they act after and the healing process) but everything they have problems with is damage regarding the frontal lobe
TBI
jolt/hit to the head that damages frontal lobe and the brain cannot function normally
-Initiation, problem-solving, self-monitoring, self-regulation, inhibition, attention, concentration, expressive language, changes in personality, motor planning
-Difficulty holding a job, maintaining relationships, managing finances
SLP’s role to help with a TBI
Goal: achieve highest level of independent function for participation in daily living
-Cognitive communication therapy may target:
—Better expressing thoughts
—Better understanding written material
—Improving attention, memory, problem solving, planning, and organization skills
—Improving social skills including reading social cues and taking turns in conversation
-May also provide dysarthria and dysphagia treatment if needed
3 ways blood flow can change during a stroke
Ischemic strokes
-thrombus
-embolus
Hemorrhage