final exam Flashcards
Free and appropriate education
all students are entitled to receive an education, it’s the responsibility of the school district
LRE
least restrictive environment
important aspects of IDEA
student strengths and caregiver concerns must be taken into consideration, caregiver participation, evidence based reading instruction, high standards for professionals
UDL
universal design for learning
3 aspects of UDL
multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression
sections of an IEP
present level of educational performance, annual goals, short-term objectives and benchmarks, services modifications and accommodations, strengths and concerns, LRE, transition services, eval procedures and results, team members
present level of educational performance
assessment across all areas including academic skills, social and emotional development, sensory and motor status, and communication status
Why is familiarity with the Common Core State Standards & other state-specific academic standards important for school SLPs?
a. SLP critical role in schools is to support general curriculum; should be functioning hand in hand with general classroom teacher
2 responsibilities of school SLPs
prevention, program design
RTI
system of supports that help identify students who need support and students who don’t, tier 3 is intensive intervention, tier 1 is general ed
SLP roles in RTI
early identification and prevention of reading disability, collaboration with the RTI team
largest category of special education services in the schools
specific learning disabilities (35% of students with IEPs)
dyslexia
decoding, spelling, and word recognition rooted in phonological skills and word recognition, main issue is decoding but this can lead to comprehension issues
specific comprehension deficit
decoding is fine but meaning behind the text is hard to grasp
phonological characteristics of LLD
speech perception, phonological awareness, and phonological memory
i. Short term memory and production of multisyllabic words
ii. Speech sounds/SSD isn’t the main concern (might be cooccurring)
syntactic characteristics of LLD
understanding and producing complex syntax especially relative clauses, passive sentences, and negation
i. Writing errors are more common than spontaneous speech errors
ii. Speech might sound immature rather than inappropriate
iii. Difficulty following multistep or out of order directions
semantic characteristics of LLD
small vocab, relationships and categories, more use of nonspecific terms, difficulty understanding abstract vocabulary, word retrieval
pragmatic characteristics of LLD
conversational skills below TD peers (initiation, knowing what the listener understands, clarification or asking for clarification), narrative skills are diminished, might have more “problem” behaviors
oral language vs. literate language
oral language is listening and speaking, literate language is reading and writing; involves metalinguistic competence, decontextualized language, specific vocab
how are oral and literate language related?
oral language is the base for literate language
3 foundations for early literacy development
emergent literacy, spoken language comprehension, metalinguistic awareness
emergent literacy
phonological awareness, print concepts, alphabet knowledge, literate language
spoken language comprehension
creates more difficulty with reading comprehension
3 components of literacy instruction according to LEARN of the ESSA
phonemic awareness, reading fluency, and reading comprehension strategies
3 impacts of ESSA on students with disabilities
a. SLPs and stakeholders must ensure academic success of students is being continually monitored
b. SLPs and other stakeholders must familiarize themselves with how ESSA can be allocated to support students
c. Professionals need to work together to align ESSA with IDEA
- What are metalinguistic and metacognitive skills? Examples of each?
a. Metalinguistic: synonyms and antonyms, defining vocab words, recognizing errors and correcting sentences
b. Metacognitive: reflect and think about progress, start a task and follow through, self regulation and inhibition
- What is the relationship between phonological awareness and reading?
a. Significant causal relationship between PA and reading; children with good PA skills have an easier time learning to read
b. Direct PA instruction can improve reading and spelling
- Do children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds require a different method of reading instruction? What methods may be helpful in serving this population?
a. Don’t need a different type of reading instruction, they need more exposure, practice, and more individualized and intensive instruction settings
- How might students be identified for a speech and language evaluation? How are eligibility criteria determined?
a. Formal and informal screenings, teacher referrals
b. Eligibility criteria determined by state/school district
i. Primary criterion: student’s impairment adversely affects educational performance (educational performance includes academics, communication, and participation in school activities)
ii. Likely include some kind of standardized test performance measure
What are the 4 communicative intentions you may observe in a student’s conversation?
a. Directive (directing self and others)
b. Interpretive: reporting on present and past events, explaining
c. Projective: predicting or empathizing
d. Relational: self-expression, relationships with others
What are 2 pragmatic skills that SLPs can observe during a student’s conversation with a peer?
a. Nonverbal communication: use of physical space between speakers
b. Introduction and responsiveness: maintains and changes conversational topics appropriately
- What is the difference between literal and inferential narrative comprehension?
a. Literal: what’s explicitly said in the text
b. Inferential: nonexplicit, reading between the lines
What is the difference between narrative macrostructure and microstructure
a. Macrostructure: organization, cohesion, story grammar elements
b. Microstructure: productivity, complexity
- Be able to briefly describe 1 of the 4 “problems” noted by McGregor (2020) in her paper, How We Fail Children with DLD.
a. DLD is an unknown disorder: 32 different terms, primary diagnosis shifts, comorbidities like ASD and ADHD, persists into adulthoods and difficulties increase as demands on the child increases
What types of products might be used for an artifact analysis?
Authentic analysis of skills; use assignments, worksheets, narratives they’ve written
What is the difference between tier 1, 2, & 3 words?
Tier 1: basic, everyday words used in conversation, usually the first words kids learn
Tier 2: high frequency, more common in writing than in conversation, not context-based but are needed for understanding tier 3 words, best target for vocabulary instruction
Tier 3: context-specific “jargon”, learned in the context of subject matter
List and briefly describe the 3 steps of dynamic assessment. Goal and benefits of dynamic assessment?
pretest, teach, posttest; b. Goal: how does the student respond to different supports and cues? Use evaluation as treatment, benefits: show what the child needs to do well
Give an example of and explain a criterion-referenced assessment task for phonology, semantics, and syntax (appropriate for language for learning period)
Phonology: specific phonological awareness tasks (ex. “if I take the L out of plants, what word do I have?”), helps you see the child’s level of phonological awareness
Semantics: Work with spatial terms (ex. “make dots above the sticker” or “make dots around the sticker”).
Syntax: have students paraphrase a complex sentence (ex. “the boy who’s sister bought him ice cream
Briefly be able to describe at least one activity for semantics, syntax, or morphology, pragmatics, or narrative
Vocab word chart with synonym, sentence, definition, picture
Word maps: making connections between words
Video modeling: view, discuss, rehearse, practice
Narrative: making predictions as to where different elements/words will fit into the story
Summarize at least 2 recommendations for narrative intervention from Spencer and Petersen (2020) article
Arrange for generalization opportunities; Plan for generalization ahead of time, incorporate teacher and curriculum into group, Create activities to practice narratives in other contexts
Use visuals to make abstract concepts concrete, Graphic organizer for understanding elements, Pictures for reference for comprehension and production, but make sure they’re not relying too heavily on them
what is advanced language?
age 12-early adulthood, likely have already mastered or are working on mastering language skills discussed earlier
demands of advanced language
social, cognitive, linguistic
social/interpersonal demands of advanced language
multiple teachers and classrooms, different peers across classes, group work and presentations, higher expectations in conversation
cognitive demands of advanced language
previous knowledge and skills, working memory, longer more complex tasks, monitoring, organization and independence, critical thinking
linguistic demands of advanced language
oral and written expression, advanced morphology, flexible semantic knowledge, narrative/expository/persuasive discourse
adolescents with LLD
difficulties in L4L stage -> disadvantage during middle and HS grades; risk for emotional, behavioral, and attentional challenges
student-centered assessment with language for learning
shift from family as main social unit to independence and peer group as main social unit, student motivation and awareness of what’s being assessed, self-assessment, goal: establish cooperative partnership with student
identification and eligibility
screening, teacher or counselor referral, the student themselves
Eligibility for older students
assess pragmatics and discourse skills in addition to other components of language, whether oral language skills support literate language skills required for curriculum
3 types of vocabulary learning
direct instruction, contextual abstraction, morphological analysis
literate lexicon
critical semantic categories, technical curriculum words and presuppositional verbs
criterion-referenced assessment for word retrieval in advanced language
reading passages followed by word recognition task, familiar and unfamiliar words
supplement one-word vocabulary testing with observation of word-finding in conversational sample
advanced language criterion-referenced assessment for word relations
ask student to describe all the different meanings of a word, artifact analysis, ask questions about vocab during a reading passage
advanced language criterion-referenced tasks for verbal reasoning
using language to problem solve, plan, organize, predict, etc.
t/f: advanced language learners should use comprehension strategies to understand sentence
false, should understand all sentence types
improving complex sentence production leads to
increased reading comprehension
4 types og language sample elicitation
narrative samples, expository samples, persuasive samples, written samples
narrative samples
ask them to describe their favorite movie/TV show
expository samples
tell me about something you know about; tell me the rules of hockey, etc.
persuasive samples
convince me of something
written samples
can be artifact analysis
3 aspects of analysis
length, complexity, correctness
conversational pragmatics in advanced language stage
- initiating and responsiveness
- turn taking and repair
- topic structure
- cohesion/coherence
shortcuts to conversational analysis
- norm-referenced instruments
- structured behavioral observations
- nonstandardized role playing
norm referenced conversational assessment
highest content validity of assessment
examples of norm-referenced conversational assessments
CCC-2, CELF observation scale and pragmatic checklist, teacher assessment of competence
social responsiveness scale-2
used for students with significant pragmatic concerns, older children can self-report
structured observations use
probes for eliciting conversational behavior
types of probes for structured observations
topic initiation, questions, requests for repair, sources of difficulty
skills that contribute to conversational competence
negotiation strategies, register variation
negotiation strategies
ability to persuade, talk about points of view and resolve conflices
register variation
use and understanding of age-appropriate slang, hinting something to somene, talking to different people differently
examples of secondary classroom discourse
academic performance, strengths and challenges/problems, organization, participation, narrative skills, clarification, perspective-taking, listening
narrative text in earlier grades
story structure/story grammar (ex. graphic organizer, identify beginning/middle/end, multiple exemplars, multiple readings
narrative text in later grades
character analysis, inferencing, summarizing, cohesion, literate language forms
potential prompts for personal narrative gneeration
tell me a story about a time you were with your family or friends that you wanted something and they wanted something else; what were you thinking and how did you solve the problem?
macrostructure
overall structure, initiating event, setting, characteristics, plan, beginning/middle/end
microstructure
words and sentences that support macro (mental/linguistic words, subordinating /coordinating clauses)
assessing narrative macrostructure
gains in structural complexity and interpretive understanding in narratives; asking questions related to characters’ problems, plans, solutions, emotions
6 abilities for summarizing a narrative
- understanding individual propositions and events
- understanding connections among events
- identifying story grammar elements that organize the story
- remembering the sequence of events in the story
- selecting the most salient information to be included in the summary
- generating a concise and cohesive vision of that information