Midterm 1 Flashcards
What is a language disorder according to ASHA?
impairment in comprehension use of a spoken, written , or other symbol system. May involve in: FORM of lang: phono, morpho, syntax CONTENT of lang: semantics FUNCTION of lang: pragmatics
what is Behavioral Theory?
- B.F. Skinner
- OPERANT: conditioning - recieve rewards
- Can Teach any observable behavior
- Verbal behavior is not innat
- Stimuli, Response, Reinforcement
What is the Nativist Theory?
- Chompsky
- Language is innate –> children can learn language without being taught
- Reinforcement is not needed
- Language Acquisition Device
- Focus is on syntax
what is Congnitive Theory?
- Piaget
- Cognition is needed in order to learn language
- Must work on certain cognitive tasks before language
- Piaget - 4 stages of development
- Cognition is innate / language is not
what is Social interactionism theory?
- Vygotsky
- Social Communication = motivation
- Language is used to structure thought
- Culture and environment are key
- Intervention is focused on children’s motivation to communicate
What is the purpose of assessment?
- provides a baseline of functioning
- strengths and challenges
- goals for therapy
- develop an intervention plan
- ongoing evaluation of student progress
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the impact on Assessment?
- informed consent
- Eval procedures must be non-discriminatory
- Areas of suspected disability are assesed
- primary lang
- IEP and IFSP are mandates of IDEA
- collaborative Team
- Used to develop individual goals/ plan
What is Individualized Family Service Plan? (IFSP)
- Birth 2 yrs 11 months
- Transition at 3 yrs to school districts
- include present levels of functioning in all domains (motor, cognition, speech/ lang, adaptive)
- family input is essential
- description of services and expectd outcomes
- reviewed every 6 months
- services through local regional center
What is Individualized Education Plan? (IEP)
- Ages 3-21
- includes academic performance
- must include time in general education and time receiving services
- establishes goals/ plan
- type of services needed to meet goals
- transition planning
- reviewed one a year
What does Collaboration and Team Approach indicate?
- mandated federally
- Eval for eligibility
- formulation and eval of IEP / IFSP
- Re-eval of placement and related services
Who is included of Team membership (4 examples)
- parent/ caregiver
- SPED teacher
- School psycologist
- Occupational Therapist
T/F: development across happens at the same time
True
What does collaborative approach look at?
- looks at whole student
- provides opportunities for generalization of skills
What is the overview of assessment
- Case history (intake)
- Contributing Factors (hearing, medical)
- Assesment of Lang (screening, formal/informal)
- Areas to be assessed
- Analysis (impact of functional lang)
What are Formal Strategies of assessment procedures?
Psychometric Assessment
- norm-referenced tests –>
1. compares student performance w/ other students
2. percentile ranks, standard scores
3. standardized
Evaluation criteria for assessments
- tool must fit purpose of assessment
- assesment instrument must be appropriate for student
- asses. instr. should match skills of professional using it
- asses tool must be technically asequate
- asses instr. should be efficient
How to Evaluate Technical Quality of Assessment Tools:
- Age, grade, and gender norm
- random selectio is preferable
- norm group should represent the population and be of adequate size
- test norms should be recent to reflect current standards
What is technical adequacy?
reliability and validity are technical ways that we evaluate whether or not a test is going to yield results
What is reliability?
- refers to test and item dependability or consistency over time and across the items
- examiners seek lowest amount of error and highest amount of reliability
- desirable: .60 reliability w/ .80 high level of reliability
- can be determined in test-retest, equivalent forms , internal consistency
What does a reliable test produce?
produces similar scores across various conditions and situations, including evaluators and testing environments
What is validity?
- denotes the extent to which an instrument is measuring what it is supposed to measure
- the degree to which a test measures what it is designed to measure
What are concerns about standardized tests?
- overuse
- content doesnt match the curriculum
- not sensitive to small increments of progress
- item format favors recognizing the one right answer
- bias often reflects the majority culture
How to select a test?
- ## team must select tools and methods to assess in all the areas of disability
How to prepare testing environment?
- testing room
- adequate ventilation and lighting
- freedom of distraction
- seating arrangements
How to administer a test?
- strict adherence to administation and scoring guidlines is essential
- recording of student responses requires a score sheet or protocol
- demonstation items may be provided
- establishes a basal and continue until a ceiling is reached
- testing ends when all items are completed
What are the steps to administer a test?
- read manual
- fill out basic info on protocal
- get to know the examinee
- prepare test material and test setting
- establish rapport
- explain why test is given
- explain directions
8 .begin testing in a calm manner