lang dis.: basics & assessment Flashcards
plural -s
dogs, cats, busses
possessive -s
the dog’s bone, the cat’s meow
3rd person singular -s
the dog runs, the cat mewoes
-they do the action
past tense -ed
the dog barked, the cat meowed
perfective aspect -ed
the girl has played, had played
-recently completed
progressive aspect -ing
the boy is playing, was playing with
negative contractions
dont, wont, cant, isnt
modal verb contractions
hell go, theyd like to
contractions of the coupla
im going, youre going, shes here
copula
“be”: i am, you are, she is, we are, i was, you were
infintival to
she wants to play, the like to eat icecream
auxillary verbs
have (perspective aspect), be (progressive aspect), do (negatives, questions, emphasis
modals
can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will, would
subjective/nominative pronouns
i, you, he, she, we, they
objective/accusative pronouns
me, you, him, her, us, them
possessive pronouns
my, your, his, her, their, our
reflexive pronouns
mysef, yourself, hiself, herself
clause
subject + predicate (verb) + object
the child threw the ball
c-unit
has to be able to stand alone
ex: **the child threw the ball **in the back alley
coordinated c-units
could stand on their own but b/c they’re combined with “and, or, but” etc. they cannot
ex. The frog jumped on the lilypad and then jumped in.
subordinate clauses
cannot stand on its own
the child threw the ball while in the back alley
importantt for following directions
types of language samples
conversation, play-based, story retell
representative sample
-at least 50 utterances
-optimizes developmental progress
-reflects speaker’s typical language use
-challenges production abilities
purpose of assessment: screening
identify children at risk for DLD to find those who need more in-depth assessment
screening instrument properties
-psychometric properties
-range of areas assessed
-problems of false-positive and false-negative dindings
-lack of gold standard for speech screening
purpose of assessment: evaluation
-high stakes summative assessment
-identify areas of strengths and needs
-requires exam of all areas of comm. through standardized testing
-may require observation in multiple settings and tasks into account
-incorporates parents as partners
purpose of assessment: establishing goals for intervention
lower stakes formative assessment:
-identify appropriate targets and procedures with reference to typical developmental sequence
-takes into account both deficits and strengths
-addresses all domains and modalities of lang.
-includes priorities of parents and academic context
purpose of assessment: measuring change in intervention
-formative assessment
-determine wether goals have been achieved
-contributes to decisions about dimissal from intervention
assess form
-syntax
-morphology
-phonology
assess content
-knowledge of basic concepts and underlying language
-vocab
-semantic relationships among words and clauses, understanding ambiguity and multiple meanings
-understanding figurative language use
assess use (primarily pragmatics)
-appearance of appropriate range of communicative factors
-discourse management skills
-clarity, cohesion, and coherence in discourse
assess all core language in
receptive AND expressive modalities
other areas to assess
- hearing
- oral-motor exam
- nonverbal cognition
- social functioning
- adaptive skills
- emotional status and emotional regulation
- role of cultural and language differences in client’s lang. development
psychometric properties of standardized tests
-clear administration and scoring criteria
-validity
-reliability
-diagnostic accuracy
-standardization
-measures of central tendency and variability
vlaidity
measures what we think it will
reliability
get same results each time
diagnostic accuracy
accurately dentifiy disorder
standard errors of measurement
a statistical measure of the similarity of repeated measures taken from the same source, for example, from the same person
-also known as confidence interval
grade-equivalent scores
score differently based upon age. take raw score and compare to mean raw score of other ages
mental age equivalent scores
what mental age is it when you compare raw scores
-kinda stray away from this can have negative connotations for parents
sensitivity
measures the proportion of positives that are correctly identified as such
specificity
measures the proportion of negatives that are correctly identified as such
in the sentence “she taught me how to swim” what type of pronoun is the word me?
object pronoun
in the sentence “she taught me how to swim” what type of pronoun is the word she?
subject pronoun
“i am confident she knows what she’s doing” what grammatical morpheme is attached to know
3rd person singular -s
a 2-year old boy and his mom are visiting grandma. mom has promise the boy icecream after the visit. the boy tells his grandma “i going for icecream” which of the following most closely matches the boys intended uttrance
i’m going for icecream
a 3 year old boy and his dad are at the zoo. the boy tells his dad “i see two lion!” what form was used incorrectly
plural -s
“i am confident she knows she she’s doing” what grammatical morpheme is attatched to she
contracted form of the coupla be
“him hitted me” is an example of what
overuse of object pronoun
