Language Disorders in Children (Chapter 4) Flashcards
What is a specific language impairment?
This is a language disorder in a child who is otherwise typically developing
What is the etiology of a SLI?
Children with SLO have no known etiology or associated condition
How do consonant inventories differ between typically developing children and children with a SLI?
Children with SLI may have fewer consonants in their phonetic repertoire.
What is the cause of disfluencies and increased use of fillers, such as “um” and “you know,” in children with a SLI?
These are often caused by word finding or word retrieval difficulties
What is the MLU of a child with a SLI, relative to TD peers?
This will be shorter that TD peers
What is the speech of a child with a SLI like?
This will be telegraphic
What are narratives of children with SLI like?
They are less complete, contain fewer utterances, and show more communication breakdowns than TD peers.
What is speed of processing like in children with a SLI?
Children with a SLI process information more slowly than TD children
What is attention to task like for children with SLI?
Research consistently shows that it children with SLI have difficulty focusing for appropriate periods of time on necessary tasks
What is the emotional control of children with SLI like?
This is poor and results in difficulty regulating emotions, which is related to behavior problems, and may negatively affect such things as vocabulary learning,
What is task shifting like in children with a SLI?
Children with SLI have more difficulty shifting between tasks and become more easily taxed.
What is planning and organization like for children with SLI?
Children with SLI often manifest diroganization and lack of ability to plan effectively.
Why is speech of children with ID often telegraphic?
Their speech often presents this way due to difficulty with the abstract nature of bound morphemes. Consequently, they tend to leave out function words:
“The man is going to the store” –> “Man go store”
What training is currently popular for treatment of children with Asperger’s?
Social skills training is currently popular for this population
What is cerebral palsy?
This is a disorder of early childood in which the immature nervous system is affected by injury.
What is the most common type of CP?
Spastic CP
What is the factor most highly related to socioeconomic status?
A mother’s educational level
What type of language delay is most prevalent in children who undergo abuse?
Expressive language delays are most prevelant for this population
What are features of utterances of children that have experienced abuse?
This population is likely to use terse, practical language to get the job done with little elaboration and little social affect.
What is FAE?
The abbreviation for fetal alcohol effects, which are mild physical/cognitive signs that have been linked to the mother’s drinking during pregnancy, but do not meet the diagnostic requriements for FASD.
What intervention is crucial for the language development of children prenataly exposed to drugs/alcohol?
Early intervention is critical for this population
What is a negative academic consequence experienced by most children with ADHD by the time they reach adolescence?
Over half of this population is likely to fail at least one grade by this age
What is the greatest language difficulty of children with ADHD?
Students with this diagnosis tend to manifest the greatest amount of difficulty in social interaction skills
What are possible goals of treatment for children with ADHD?
This population need intervention in auditory processing skills, pragmatics, and expressive language organization
