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Lecture 2 - Assessment in children Flashcards

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What are the 4 components of Communicative Competence?

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1) Linguistic Competence
2) Operational Competence
3) Social Competence
4) Strategic Competence

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True or false presuming competence is a dangerous assumption

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FALSE it is the LEAST dangerous assumption - better to assume they can do it and give them tools rather than stunting their progress

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What are 4 things to look for during a speech assessment?

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Determine:

1) Degree that speech is functional
2) if speech is primary mode of communication
3) Situations in which speech is adequate
4) Client’s potential to increase use of natural speech

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What are the 10 levels of effectiveness of natural speech? (rated from 0 =never to 4 = always)

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1) vocalizes during interactions
2) Speech to gain attention
3) Voice varies with content/intent of msg
4) Use speech with familiar person on known topic
5) Use speech with unfamiliar person on known topic
6) Use speech with familiar person on novel topic
7) Use speech with unfamiliar person on novel topic
8) msgs understood by familiar partner
9) msgs understood by unfamiliar partner
10) uses speech for replair and clarification

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What are the 4 areas of Language Asessment?

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1) Formal Testing
2) Observation
3) Communication journals (done by partners)
4) Device trial and retry

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Why is it important to conduct an interest survey?

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b/c motivation is key to communication - start with interests, likes. dislikes

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What is a Communciation Dictionary?

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lists the communication behaviour (purse lips), what it means (I’m full) and partners response (Take away food)

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The TASP is used to assess _______ skills and includes what 4 subtests?

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Symbolic
> symbol size and number
> grammatical encoding
> Categorization
> Syntactic performance
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What are the 4 main reasons to communicate according to th communication matrix

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1) To refuse
2) To obtain
3) To socialize
4) To provide/seek info

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What are the 7 levels of communicative competence according to the communication matrix

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1) Pre-intentional
2) Intentional
3) Unconventional (pre-symbolic)
4) Conventional (pre-symbolic)
5) Concrete symbols
6) Abstract symbols
7) Language (combining symbols)

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What is unconventional communication?

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Unconventional > something not readily apparent, or something not socially appropriate

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Communication matrix is a useful tool for the _______ communicators. What are the benefits of this appraoch?

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earliest. Developmental, assists in selecting modes of communication - targets a variety of communication functions

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What is the Social Networks approach to communication?

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> Focus is on communication partners and the best strategies to communicate with them
Defines different stages of communicative competence

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After family what is the next most common communication partner these kids will interact with?

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Paid care workers (We want to change this so they talk more with friends/aquaintances!!)

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What are the 3 levels of communicative competence according to the social networks approach

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1) Emerging (not using symbols)
2) Context-dependent (sometimes in some environments)
3) independent (communicate anywhere about anything)

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What does the SETT framework stand for?

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1) Student (skills they have)
2) Environment (partners, supports, equipment, intructional arrangement) ,
3) Task (things they need/want to do)
4) Tools (accommodations and modifications)

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True or false - it’s most important to get the tools to the child as fast as possible even if you have to bypass assessment

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NOPERSSS you gotta assess first to provide effective tools

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True or false - all areas of SETT can be assessed simultaneously

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Trueeee - it’s a dynamic process

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What are the benefits of SETT

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Provides a process, promotes collaboration, honours all perspectives, uses common language and unites assessment and intervention

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What are the benefits of the Social Network approach?

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Focuses on participation, collaboration, multiple modalities and broadens communication strategies away from technology alone

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What is core vocabulary?

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Small # of words that constitutes majority of what’s said in normal conversation

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the top _____-______ words constitute 80% of total words communicated

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100-200

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Core vocab is consistent across…

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population, environments, Topics and Activities

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Core vocab contains high frequency words that have what 2 components?

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1) General core vocab (high freq in general convo)

2) Personal core vocab (words frequency used by individual)

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What is Fringe vocabulary

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Specific and unique to individual and environment

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True or false - total communication only requires core vocabulary

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FALSE - total communciation requires both core and fringe vocab

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What does SNUG stand for and whats the ultimate goal of this approach

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Spontaneous novel utterance generation

> goal = find a way to share novel thoughts, ideas and opinons

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Start with at least 20 words. 10 _______ and 10 ________. Which include what types of words?

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> 10 early emerging pragamatic: again, all done, do, different, help, look, more, see, stop, what
10 additional: 2 people/pronouns, 1 negative, 1time regulator (ready), 3 object place holds (that/this), 1 more action (want), 2 descriptors (good/bad)

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what are 4 tips for teaching core?

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1) model with duplicate board
2) model one step more
3) Colour code
4) mask to start

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True or false it’s good to start with opposites?

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True - lots of teaching opportunities

31
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What does prompting involve?

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Telling the child outloud what you think they’re communicating, looooots of modeling, constant language stimulation

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Referential = _____, Descriptive = ______.

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more (name all the items needed for baking) , less (we have all the ingredients now what? - child: mix them!)

33
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Where is a good place to start with kids who are on the spectrum, that do not know that they need to get a persons attn and eye contact

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PECs (Picture exchange communication)

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What is PECs? what 4 phases does it involve?

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(Picture exchange communication)

1) persistence to initiate communication
2) Discrimination b/w 20 pics
3) Navigating from page to page while building a sentence
4) Pointing to individual pics

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What is a visual scene display?

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PIcture that displays a situation and add hot spots

36
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What does PODD stand for and what is it

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Pragmatic Organized Dynamic Display
> Organize vocab based on pragmatic functions
• Can’t physically access display, partner assisted
• Go through options & get best yes (e.g. are you feeling, do you want something…etc. turn to feeling page & go through feelings)

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What are the features of PODD?

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vocab always in same location, works towards automaticity, efficiency to communicate (easy navigation)

38
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PODD uses branch starters such as…

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I like this, somethings wrong. I have something to show you

39
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What is Minispeak

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Represent language on a communication device - symbols chosen for their rich semantic associations and multi meanings (i.e. using an eyeball to represent “I”)

40
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What are the 4 components of minispeak assessment

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Naming, function, multi meaning and increase difficulty/function (i.e. start with point to apple, move to point to thing you eat)

41
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How would an action be represented using minispeak

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use the object symbol (i.e. apple for eat) plus a green action man that makes it a verb

42
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What systems use pre-made vocabularies?

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Word power, proloquo to go, LAMP, Snap + core first and Compass

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