Receptive Language Flashcards
What is receptive language?
‘Receptive language means the ability to
understand information. It involves understanding the words, sentences and meaning of what others say or what is read.’
What are the processes of receptive language?
- Hear word
- Identify phonological string
- Relate info to stored word (phonology/meaning)
- Use knowledge of the concept of words
What do children need to learn in terms of conceptual development?
- Objects exist
- Object permanence
- Objects differ
- Objects can be represented by symbols
- Objects have characteristics
- Objects have function/use
What are the stages of verbal comprehension?
- Situational understanding of the whole phrase
- Situational understanding of labels within the whole phrase.
- Understanding of those labels in any context – whether present or not (real objects).
- Understanding of labels in relation to symbolic representations e.g. toys /pictures / drawings
- Relating 2 named objects.
- Selecting objects by use / function
- More complex directions involving early concepts, plus relating more than 2 named objects
What are some examples of receptive vocabulary? (Lexicon)
• Size • Range: o Lexical categories o Organisation of vocab o Level of abstraction • Vocab dev out of non-verbal knowledge or objects, people, places, actions and feelings (concept dev) • Must label experience before sharing it • Vocab required for learning
How do you organise lexicon?
Encode using Semantics(meaning) and Phonology
Organise experiences by linking them in diff ways
Need to know what words mean/how to use them
Need semantic knowledge to file word in the right place/where to look for it
What does semantic building blocks include?
o Categories o Function o Attributes o Synonyms o Antonyms o Homonyms o Indv experiences
What difficulties of receptive language to children with DLD experience?
- Difficulty w/syntactic boot-strapping
- Difficulty learning new words difficulty with encoding words/storing phonological short-term memory
- Difficulty generalising from patterns
- Literacy difficulties i.e. vocab
What are information carrying words?
‘Words in a sentence that must be understood in order to respond appropriately’
What may children do with receptive language difficulties?
- Follow others
- Ask questions
- Disruptive
- Use ‘yes, no’ often as they know they should respond but they don’t know what to
- Avoidance
- Take things very literally
- Hard to follow instructions
- Dominate conversation
- Avoidance
- Watch others
- Seem anxious when giving instructions
- Leave to do a task and end up not doing it
- Tantrums
- Labelled as badly behaved
- Social and emotional impacts
What are some individual impairments that may affect a child’s understanding/development of understanding?
- Visual and hearing difficulties
- Learning disability-cognitive skill
- Opportunities and experiences
- Poor linguistic awareness
- Attention listening
- Poor auditory memory
- Reasoning
- Poor metalinguistic awareness
What are some Situational or environmental factors that may affect understanding/development of understanding?
- Noisy environment
- Amount of info given
- Opportunities and experiences
- Links to previous knowledge
- Vocab used
- How interesting it is
- Complexity of grammar in a sentence
What is metalinguistics?
Refers to the ability to think about and eventually talk about language. It goes beyond the ability to understand word meanings and learn grammar. It is the conscious awareness and use of language as a tool. Encompasses the ability to: Recognise and interpret multiple meanings in words and sentences Make inferences Perceive and interpret figurative language
