Final Flashcards
Clint must initiate conversation.
Role play
To assess Clint’s ability to make repairs.
Feign misunderstanding
To assess Clints ability to request clarification.
Use unclear massages
Proportion of utterances directed to the listener, rather than self-directed.
Social vs. non-social
The proportion of new topics introduced by the child rather than the adults.
Topic initiation
The proportion of topics that are appropriate to the context.
Topic appropriateness
The number of turns in which the child can maintain a topic.
Turns/topic
The number of times the child fails to take a turn appropriately.
Discourse management
Triangle is the name of this shape; it has 3 sides; a piece of pizza is shaped like a triangle.
Semantic cues
Triangles have 3 sides and ‘tri an gle’ has 3 parts; ‘triangle’ starts with the same sound as tree.
Phonological cues
They might rely on simple sentences or use incorrect word order.
Limited sentence complexity
Articles (“a“, “the”), conjunctions (“and”), pronouns (“he“, “she”) may be omitted .
Omission of function words
They might overuse present tense or struggle with past tense or future tense.
Difficulty with verb tenses
Plurals (-s or -es) or possessives (‘s) might be used incorrectly.
Limited use of grammatical markers
develops a variety of language skills.
Facilitated play