Language Disorders In Children Flashcards
Language disorders in children who are otherwise typically developing are called
Specific Language impairment
What are the typical problems that children with SLI have?
articulation and phonological problems
What are the diagnostic criteria for someone on the spectrum
- impaired social interaction
- disturbed communication
- stereotypic behaviors, interests and activities.
Two types of brain Injury in children
TBI and cerebral Palsy
Are standardized tests the best option for children with TBI
No because these tests usually don’t account for their unique symptoms
Ultimate goal for a child with TBI
integrate back into school and society
A disorder in which the immature nervous system is affected, resulting in muscular discoordination ad associated problems
CP
What are the 3 types of CP
Ataxic
athetoid
spastic
This type of CP involves disturbed balance, awkward gait, and uncoordinated movements due to damage in the cerebellum
Ataxic CP
This type of CP is characterized by slow, writhing, involuntary movements due to damage in the indirect pathways especially the basal ganglia
Athetoid CP
This type of Cp involves increased spasticity as well as stiff jerky movements
Spastic CP
Expanding the child’s telegraphic speech is called
Expansion
commenting on the child’s utterance and adding new information is called
Extension or expatiation
when you repeatedly model a target structure to stimulate the child to use it, it is called
focused stimulation
Incidental teaching, mand-model and time delay are all apart of _______
Milieu Teaching
When you prompt for an elaboration and then model the elaboration it is called
incidental teaching
When the clinician “mands” a response from the child ie “tell me what you want” it is called
mans-model
Without prompting, the clinician gives the child a time delay of 15 seconds to respond, this is called
time delay
When the clinician plays with the child and describes and comments upon what the child is doing and the objects the child is interested in it is called
Parallel talk
When a child utterance is repeated back in a modified form such as a statement into a question it is called
recasting
Repeating back exactly what the child just said is called
reauditorization
When the clinician describes her own activity while playing with the child it is called
self talk
