Language Disorder Treatment

Question 1

Discrete Trial Procedure

Answer 1

Steps:
1. Place a stimulus
picture in front of
the child
2. Ask the child a
relevant (e.g.,
What do you see?)
3. Immediately model
correct response &
wait for child to
imitate response
4. Reinforce for correct
imitation
5. Give corrective
feedback
6. Record response and
wait a few seconds
to initiate new trial

Question 2

Expansion

Answer 2

clinician takes a child’s telegraphic or incomplete utterance and
expands it into a more complete and grammatically correct utterance
ie “doggy bark”
yes, the doggy is barking

Question 3

Extention

Answer 3

clinician comments on the child’s utterances and adds new and
relevant information.
“Apple”
“Yes, you are holding a red fruit called an apple”

Question 4

Focused Stimulation

Answer 4

1. clinician repeatedly models the target structure to the child during
   a play activity designed to focus on a particular language structure.
2. Uses various stimulus materials and talks about
   them while repeatedly modeling the target structure.

Question 5

Milieu Teaching

Answer 5

1. Teaches functional communication skills through everyday verbal
   interactions that arise naturally in naturalistic settings.
2. Uses effective behavioral procedures to
   promote language development in a child’s natural environment by using typical, everyday verbal interactions

Question 6

Joint Book Reading

Answer 6

1. Stimulates language in
   children through systematic
   storybook reading
2. Allows for repetitive use
   and practice of concepts
   and phrases
3. Establishes joint attention
   between clinician and child

Question 7

Narrative Skills Training

Answer 7

Descriptions of events and experiences with specific story grammar characteristics

Question 8

Macrostructure

Answer 8

Macrostructure
involves the overall organization
and content of a story, such as
characters, setting, and plot
events. It’s the big picture, similar
to the main storyline in a movie

Question 9

Microstructure

Answer 9

involves linguistic details and connections within a story, such as cohesion, sentence complexity, and linguistic structures. These are the smaller elements, like the tiny details in minerals, that contribute to the overall narrative

Question 10

Recasting

Answer 10

1. Repeating a child’s limited sentence in a modified form to teach complex grammatical forms
2. clinician changes the modality or voice of the sentence rather than adding grammatical or semantic markers

Question 11

Self Talk

Answer 11

clinician describes their own activity as they play
with the child

Question 12

Parallel Talk

Answer 12

Clinician plays with the child and describes and comments on
what the child is doing and what the child is playing with

Question 13

Small Group Intervention

Answer 13

clinician works with a few
students together in a
separate therapy room. Similar
to pull-out intervention, but
with a group.

Question 14

Indirect Intervention

Answer 14

clinician sets goals, but
another person (such as a
peer, parent, or teacher’s aide)
carries out the treatment

Question 15

Pull-out Intervention

Answer 15

working with students
individually or in small groups
in a separate therapy room,
away from their regular class

Question 16

Classroom-based
Intervention
(Push-In)

Answer 16

clinician works with
students within their
classroom setting, aligning
therapy with curriculum goals,
allowing for better
generalization of skills.

Question 17

Normative Strategy

Answer 17

This approach selects target
behaviors based on age-related
developmental norms.

Question 18

Client-Specific
Strategy

Answer 18

Tailored to individual needs,
this strategy prioritizes skills
essential for the client’s
communication and
functioning

Question 19

Functional
Communication
Strategy

Answer 19

Prioritizing practical
communication skills, this
approach emphasizes effective
communication over
grammatical or phonetic
accuracy.

Question 21

Integrated
Approach

Answer 21

Considering various factors like
age, cultural background, and
individual needs, this approach
creates a customized plan
blending elements from other
strategies.