Language disorders in children

Question 1

Children with specific language impairment have deficits in two areas

Answer 1

language and executive functioning/cognitive processing

Question 2

Physical and environment factors that can impact language include

Answer 2

poverty, neglect and abuse, mom or dad using drugs or alcohol, and ADHD

Question 3

What signs may a child with language disorders exhibit?

Answer 3

poor grammar, not enough language, cognitive deficits, poor literacy skills, inadequate or insufficient nonverbal communication, issues with social communication

Question 4

What are the risk factors associated with a language disorder?

Answer 4

delayed production of 1st words, including mama and dada; being in a poor environment; genetic abnormalities; cannot learn speech sounds; avoiding eye contact and no social smile; mom uses drugs or has an infection such as HIV or Herpes; does not follow simple commands; does not gesture or only uses gestures; family history of language disorders; premature birth or low birth weight

Question 5

What are the general characteristics of children with SLI?

Answer 5

Only have impairement in language, not with intelligence; issue could stem from them just being poor at linguistics or an issue with cognition, audition, intelligence, perception, and sensation; heschl’s gyrus and the planum temporale may be the areas affected in SLI. Frontal lobe damage is also present, which leads to executive function disorders.

Question 6

What are the speech and language deficits of children with SLI?

Answer 6

Overextend or underextend words; shorter MLU, struggle to perceive or use morphemes (e.g., auxiliaries, present progressive -ing, articles), may use phonological patterns and have speech sound disorders, may struggle to start a convo or stay on the topic of conversation;

Question 7

What are treatment principles when working with a child with SLI?

Answer 7

involve the family; use a multimodal approach and involve a multidisciplinary team; target academic and social language; target literacy skills if needed; use culturally and linguistically appropriate targets

Question 8

What is milieu teaching?

Answer 8

a therapy technique in which a child is taught functional communication skills through everyday interactions