language disorders

Question 1

type-token ratio

Answer 1

represents variety of different words used expressively
(lexical skills),
.5 w/in average range

Question 2

childhood TBI manifestations

Answer 2

impaired word retrieval & comprehension,
lack of attention,
memory problems

Question 3

SCERTS approach

Answer 3

emphasis on the importance of targeting goals in social communication (SC) & emotional regulation (ER)
by implementing transactional supports (TS):
visual supports,
environmental arrangements,
communication style adjustments

Question 4

SLI specific characteristics

Answer 4

difficulties shown in all aspects of language skills with great heterogeneity:
articulatory & phonological problems,
less complex syllable structure,
late in starting talk,
over- or under- extend words,
word- finding or retrieval problems,
abstract or figurative language difficulties,
morphological problems
(due to perceptual or syntactic problems)
including omissions
& structure confusion,
shorter utterances,
simple, declarative sentences predominate,
telegraphic speech,
complex sentence comprehension difficulties,
pragmatic skill variations,
passive communication interactions,
less complete narratives,
at-risk for later reading & writing problems

Question 5

behavioral techniques

Answer 5

instructions, 
modeling, 
prompting, 
shaping, 
manual guidance, 
fading, 
immediate, response-contingent feedback

Question 6

SLI

Answer 6

specific language impairment,

may appear normal