School-Age Communication DIsorders (The population) Flashcards
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School Age
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-School-age is defined by IDEA as 3-21 years
Depends on state how & where 3-5 year old children served (in KY public school works with this population)
- Classification under IDEA makes it difficult to find S-L cases
- May be a related service under another diagnosis
- Can stay in until after student is 21 (as long as a child is 21 when the year starts)
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Philosophy and Interpretations of IDEA
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- Philosophy of district and/or professional may significantly under-identify and under-serve adolescents with S-L needs (critical period hypothesis mindset which is not true)
- Current interpretations of IDEA have allowed failure to serve children with scores in 1st percentile rank (adverse academic impact= kid fails a grade)
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S-L service statistics
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- ASHA reported 10.5% increase in S-L services from 1988-89 to 1997-98
- 8-12% preschool children with LI
- 5-8% older children with LI
- Average age of service 8.6 years
- Suggests that older children vastly underserved, as average age of child with LD is 12.5 years old
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Statistics about school caseloads
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- Fall 2003: 1,460,583 (24.1% of special ed population) on school caseloads as a primary disability. Speech and language
- 79,522 (1.3%) for hearing impairment
- More students than this have a primary disability other than s/l or hearing and receive the services as a secondary condition
- Even more get s/l intervention as a related service due to autism
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IDEA classifications- 13
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- Intellectual disability
- hearing impairment, including deafness
- speech or language impairment
- visual impairment, including blindness
- serious emotional disturbance (hereafter referred to as emotional disturbance)
- orthopedic impairment
- autism
- traumatic brain injury
- other health impairment (ADD/ADHD, sensory)
- specific learning disability
- deaf-blindness
- multiple disabilities
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ARC Committee
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Admission and release committee
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Educator’s Diagnostic Manual
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- approximately 84% of all children and youth ages 6–21 receiving special education are reported under four disability categories:
1) Specific Learning Disabilities (47.2%)
2) Speech and Language Impairment (18.8%)
3) Intellectual Disability (9.6%)
4) Emotional Disturbance (8.1%)
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Learning disabilities
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- As defined by association of LD: significant difficulty in the acquisition and/or use of reading, writing, speaking, listening, math and social skills
- LD definition dates from late 1970’s
- Social skills added later
- Wallach & Butler suggested “language learning disabled” term
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LD as defined as IDEA
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- As defined by IDEA: disorder in one or more processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language
- Manifestations may include imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations
- LLD still fits
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Adolescents
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- 24-84% of adolescents in juvenile detention centers have communication impairment
- Stats for LD in JD centers are similar
- Auditory processing disorder is very high prevalence in JDC inmates
- Similar stats for adult incarcerated population
11
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Concomitant
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- TBI, CVA, seizure
- ADD
- FAS
- ASD
- ID
- Syndromes
- CP
- Psychiatric disorders
12
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Attention Deficit Disorder
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Cluster of syndromes:
- Short attention span
- Difficulty concentrating
- Poor impulse control
- Distractibility
- Mood swings
- +/- learning disability
- +/- hyperactivity
Often have executive function disability
13
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ADD 1
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Attention Deficit Disorder
- Not typically considered LI historically
- Westby & Cutler (1994, in Larson & McKinley) suggest DSM-IV identifying behaviors are:
1. Pragmatic deficits-interrupt, walk away, don’t finish sentences
2. Metacognitive deficits
Paul (2001) places ADD under psychiatric disorders
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ADD 2
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- Role of medication
- Context dependent—may attend well in a motivating situation
- ADD/ADHD concomitant with many other disorders, including Fragile X, autism, LD, SLI
(comorbid) - It is often best to test children with ADHD more than once on a test.
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FAS/FAE 1
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- Caused by maternal drinking of unspecified critical amount
- Fetal age & maternal age/# of pregnancies thought to be factors in determination of FAS or FAE
- FAS reserved for facial features, small size and some other characteristics
- FAE usually lacks physical characteristics
