Midterm Quiz Flashcards
What are the 3 aspects of language?
- Content
- Form
- Use
What is Content?
-What we say
What is Form?
-How we say it
What is Use?
-Why we say it
What does “Content” entail?
SEMANTICS
-word meanings, definitions sequencing
What does “Form” entail?
PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX
- production
- word order
- grammar
- sentence structure
What does “Use” entail?
PRAGMATICS
- social language
- social rules
What is Developmental Language Disorder?
-the absence of a known biomedical condition and interferes w/ the child’s ability to communicate effectively with others
What is Acquired Language Disorder?
- A language deficit that results from neural trauma
(stroke, TBI)
or neurological disease
(adult apraxia, seizure disorder)
which result in some degree of lang impairment
What is ICD 10 Code?
-The International Classification of Diseases is a globally used diagnostic tool for epidemiology health management and clinical purposes and maintained by the world health organization
What is the DSM 5?
The DIAGNOSTIC and STATISTICAL MANUAL of MENTAL DISORDERS
-handbook used by the health care professionals in the U.S. and the world as a guide to diagnosis of mental disorders
What is a Chromosome?
- structure found inside the nucleus of a cell
- made up of proteins and DNA organized into genes
- Each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes
What is Auditory Processing?
-ability to interpret the osunds that one has heard and attach the meaning ot them
What are the Special Populations?
- Down syndrome
- ASD
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Fragile X
- TBI
Down Syndrome
INCIDENCE:
- 1 in 700
CASUAL FACTORS:
- genetic
- extra 3rd chromosome on #21
Austism Spectrum Disorders
INCIDENCE:
1 in 44
CASUAL FACTORS:
- genetic 40-80% inheritable
- neurodevelopmental condition
- NOT VACCINES (MMR)
- brain difference
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
INCIDENCE:
0.5 and 2 per 1,000 births
CASUAL FACTORS:
-alcohol and cocaine exposure before birth
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
INCIDENCE:
1-3/ 1000
CASUAL FACTORS:
- autosomal recessive hearing loss (inheritance)
- infections (measles, meningitis)
Fragile X
INCIDENCE:
- Female: 1 in 8000
- Male: 1 in 4000
CAUSAL FACTORS:
- gene disorder (inherited
- mutation in DNA segment aka CGG triplet repeat
Traumatic Brain Injury
INCIDENCE:
691/ 100,000 children
CAUSAL FACTORS:
-sudden TBI from falls, car accidents, external injury
Family Systems and Speech Pathologists
family components
- understanding family systems, ROLES, and STRUCTURE TYPES
- NUCLEAR family
- SINGLE parent family
- EXTENDED family
- STEP family
- CHILDESS family
Communication with families
family components
- talking w/ families
- listening to families
- counseling, informational and personal adjustment
Family in the therapy room
family components
- family centered practices
- formal and informal education
What are the elements of a Parent/Caregiver Interview?
- SLP Introduction and Plan
- Purpose of Interview and Interview Intake
- Intake and Main Concerns
- Intake Questions
- Wrap up and final Check-in
- Plan Next Steps
What is a speech language assessment?
a complex process. Assessing, describing, and interpreting an individual’s communication ability requires the integration of a variety of information gathered in the evaluation process.
What is the Assessment Process?
- Referral
- Observation and Screening
- Signed Assessment Forms
- Intake forms and history
- Timeline
- IEP
- Recommendation for Services: Direct, RTI, Consultation, goals/objectives
What is a STANDARDIZED TEST?
- requires all test takers to answer the same questions or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions
- is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individuals with their peers.
What is a NON-STANDARDIZED test?
- checks the level of knowledge & abilities of students from one school or even from one classroom only
- developed for one classroom w/ certain number of students.
What is CRITERION REFERENCED?
- Standardized test that measures and individual performance against a set of predetermined criteria or performance standards of how your score compares to a criterion
ex: a cut score or a body of knowledge
What is a CUT-SCORE?
- a rating for all items w/in a test form that differentiates levels of performance
ex: Basic, Proficient, Advanced - identifies how far away a student is from a HIGH or LOW performance level
what is a SCREENING?
- An initial and informal way to make an observation of spoken language if a language disorder is suspected
- does NOT result in a diagnosis
- indicated potential need for further assessment
what is a TEST PROTOCOL?
-response form for assessment tools to record answers
What is a LANGUAGE SAMPLE?
-a sample of an individual spoken language in a naturalistic setting
What is BASIL?
- the examiner is confident that all items prior to that item would be answered correctly
- items below this point, although not administered, are afforded full credit
What is CEILING?
- the point where all other items will no longer be answered correctly (too hard)
- examiner stops test
what is the RAW SCORE?
- 1st unadjusted score obtained in scoring a test
- sum of item scores
What is PERCENTILE RANK?
- Percentage of scores that fall at or below the point of a given score
- range in value from 1 to 99 indicated status of an individual w/in a group
what is AGE EQUIVALENT?
-median raw score for a particular age or grade level
what is STANDARD DEVIATION?
-statistic that measures degree of spread of a set of scores
how do you determine a language evaluations?
- age
- area of need
- measurement
what would be some areas of concern?
- receptive language
- expressive language
- social language
how to pick an assessment tool?
- age
- ability
- appropriateness
- parent/teacher component
- eligibility criteria
- area of need
- measurement
what are some types of assessment measures?
- inventory
- criterion referenced
- standardized
- non standardized
how do you interpret and analyze an assessment?
- qualifying criteria
- test scores
- recommendations
- clinical impressions
