Principles of Intervention

Question 1

Fey discussed this continuum of “naturalness” in intervention approaches…

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naturalistic-contrived

Question 2

contrived

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DRILLING, structured

Question 3

natural

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play

Question 4

clinician directed approach

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the clinician specifies.
materials to be used
how client uses them
type and freq. of reinforcement
form of responses to be accepted as correct
order of activites

Question 5

clinican directed approach is also referred to as

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discrete trial intervention DTI

Question 6

DTI

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make relevant stimuli highly salient
reduce irrelevant stimuli
increase the freq of desired language behaviors
control clinical environment

Question 7

drill

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clinician instructs the client concerning what response is expected and provides a training stimulus such as word or prase to be repeated

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drill play

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attempts to provide some motivation into the drill structure

adds antecedent and motivating events

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modeling

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listen and say

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child centered approach

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clinician arranges an activity so that opportunities for the client to provide target responses occur as a natural part of play and interaction

Question 11

self talk

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we describe our own actions as we engage in parallel play with child

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parallel talk

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we provide self talk for child

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imitations

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imitate what the child says

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expansions

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take what the child said and ass the grammatical markers and semantic details that would make it an acceptable adult utterance

doggy house > Yes, the doggy is in the house!

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extensions

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comments that add some semantic info to a remark made by the child

doggy house > he went inside!

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recast sentences

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expand the child’s remark into a different type or more elaborated utterance

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hybrid approach

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clinician maintains a good deal of control in selecting activities and materials, but does so in a way that consiously tempts the child to make spontaneous use of utterances of the types being targeted

Question 18

focused stimuli

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arrange the context of interaction so that the child is tempted to produce utterances with oblig contexts for the forms being targeted

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vertical structuring

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used to target early developmental forms

clinician pieces together sentence fragments the child says into a more coherent remark

Question 20

milieu

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• environment arrangement
• responsive interaction
• conversation based contexts