Lecture 1 Flashcards
What happens when oral language development goes wrong?
- Language Impairment (LI)
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI)- cause is unknown, no other diagnosis
- Language-Learning Disorders- LI co-exists with literacy disorder
Is there one single cause of LI?
NO
What are the three different factors in the environment that affect LI? and give an example of each.
Biological (family hx)
Cognitive (neurological, info processing)
Behavioural (socioeconomic status)
What are the three different things we talk about when observing oral language development?
Form
Content
Use
What does FORM include?
Syntax, Morphology and Phonology
What does CONTENT include?
Semantics
What does USE include?
Pragmatics
What does FORM look like in kids with LI? (6)
- Deficits in grammar
- Omission of morphosyntax take markers
- Deficits in production comprehension/grammatical judgment
- Inconsistent in their application
- Deficits in phonology
- Fail to recognize which sounds are important for signaling meanings in language
What does CONTENT look like in kids with LI? (5)
- Impoverished vocabularies
- Word retrieval (ah, um, vague)
- Slow to learn new words
- # of exposures to learn a new word for someone with LI is up to 55 (normal=35)
- Encode fewer semantic features of the new items (cold)
What does USE look like in kids with LI? (4)
- Have trouble using conversational rules
- Difficulty understanding complex language
- Difficulty telling a coherent narrative
- Difficulty understanding abstract and ambiguous language
What does FORM look like for us as clinicians? (3)
- Necessary for language comprehension and expression
- Shared understanding between speakers
- Understanding language of conversation, instructions or books
What does CONTENT look like for us as clinicians? (6)
- Sharing information
- Giving and following directions
- Learning new concepts/words
- Retailing information
- Using language to predict & infer
- Using language to problem solve
When we are teaching CONTENT, how can we help a client activate their mental files?
Schema (knowledge you drive on to construct meaning)
What are three ways we can make connections when learning CONTENT?
- Text to self
- Text to text
- Text to world
What does USE look like for us as clinicians? (7)
- Conveying a clear message
- Start and end convo
- Interact appropriately
- When and how to take turns
- Ask for clarification
- Understand body language
- Use appropriate volume, tone and pitch