Social Communication Flashcards

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Language Symptoms of ADHD: Executive Functioning

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-sustained attention
- planning and organisation
- focus on details

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Language Symptoms of ADHD: Social Communication

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inattention can lead to over looked social cues

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Language Symptoms of ADHD: Language Processing

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  • difficulty following directions
  • difficulty understanding long, complex information
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Language Symptoms of ADHD: Expressive Language

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difficulties with sequencing and organisation, coherence

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Language Symptoms of ADHD: Dyslexia

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co-occurs at a high rate

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Children with language disorders are at risk in schools

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  • fewer friendships
  • increased risk of victimization
  • increased mental health concerns
  • increased likelihood of discipline problems
  • judged to be lazy, inattentive defiant
  • show to pick up on and engage the classroom routine
  • difficulty with self- advocacy
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Adolescents with language disorder at risk

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  • increased contact with the juvenile justice system
  • difficulty understanding and following directions
  • ineffective at telling their side of the story
  • appear to be an unreliable witness because of difficulty with personal narratives
  • difficulty understanding their rights
  • when sentenced, often receive harsher sentences because judged to lack remorse due to difficulty using emotion words and cognitive verbs.
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Federal Law- Discipline and IEPs

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  • long and complicated
  • having a disability doesn’t exempt a child from the following rules
  • if the offense is a RESULT of the child’s disability then the discipline process is supposed to proceed with special protections
  • services are supposed to continue while the child is being disciplined
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Role of SLP

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  • mental health screening
  • behavioral problem screening
  • advocacy and education
  • attitude shifting
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Screening

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  • consider advocating for a variety of rules around referrals in your space
  • all children with a disability should be screened for mental health concerns
  • all children with behavior problems should be screened for communicatino disorder
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Advocacy and Education

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  • train others to consider language concerns
  • make expectations transparent school-wide
  • support kids in telling their side of the story- visual cues to story telling, graphic organizers
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Attitude Shifting

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  • consider the locus of the problem
  • is the problem the child cant control their emotions or is the problem that the world doesn’t allow the child to be themselves.
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Universal Design for Learning

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  • visual schedules
  • giving everyone wait time
  • think pair share
  • calling on folks in order
  • teach class routines explicitly
  • provide visual and verbal reminders
  • consider the environment and adapt
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Intervention Methods for Repairs and Communication Breakdown

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  • checking in about comprehension
  • pause time and how to hold the floor while you think
  • alternative strategies (drawing, gesturing, pointing)
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intervention methods for social situations

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  • social stories
  • role play
  • video modeling
  • self-reflection
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Intervention Approach for Self-Advocacy Step 1:

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  • help the child understand the disorder
  • use a label
  • strengths based approach
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Intervention Approach for Self-Advocacy Step 2:

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  • help the child understand how they learn best
  • focus on successes
  • authentic self-reflection
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Intervention Approach for Self-Advocacy Step 3:

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  • rehearse things to say/do to ask for what they need
  • consider power dynamics
  • consider different situations
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Progress Monitoring

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  • to be functional/valid needs to occur in settings other than the Tx room
  • likely requires longer term observation than you can do yourself
  • need to construct a simple tool that others can use within a larger routine
  • need highly targeted tools that are fast to adminster
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Common Themes to EBP for EF

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  • metacognitive awareness
  • self reflection
  • recognize strengths and weaknesses
  • develop processes and strategies for change
  • explicit instruction and visual supports
  • tailoring to the individual student
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Areas of Focus EF:

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  • attention
  • goal setting
  • thinking flexibility
  • organising and prioritise
  • accessing working memory
  • self monitoring
  • emotional regulation
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Executive Function Treatment Themes:

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  • medication
  • proactive interventions for academic performance
  • classroom structure interventions
  • social skills interventions
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Proactive Interventions for Academic Performance

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  • focus on increasing completion and accuracy of work
  • offer task choices
  • provide peer tutoring
  • consider computer-assisted instruction
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Classroom Structure Intervention

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  • classroom rules and structures- positive rules, taught explicitly, predictable routines
  • praise for appropriate behaviors and choosing battles carefully
  • appropriate commands and reprimands
  • individual accommodations and structure for the child
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Social Skills Interventions

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  • systematic teaching of social skills by school staff
  • social problem solving
  • teaching other behavioral skills often considered important by children, such as sports skills and board game rules
  • decreasing undesirable and antisocial behaviors
  • developing one or two close friendships
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SMARTS- executive function intervention

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  • strategies
  • motivation
  • awareness
  • resilience
  • talents
  • success
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Attention

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  • what can I do to prepare myself to pay attention- reduce stress and anxiety
  • what helps me concentrate- active engagements, note taking, doodling, fidgets
  • what types of things are distracting to me- environmental vs. internal distractions
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Goal Setting and Planning:

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  • CAN-DO or SMART: steps to accomplish the goal & how long it takes
  • Age appropriate expectations for scope and sequencing: deadlines, breaking into parts, how far out, level of structural supports available for solving the problems
  • Consider what tool is most appropriate: agenda, planner, homework folder, technology tools, teach tool use and help to build the routine
  • language and sequencing as a mediator for this skill
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Flexibility

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  • consider all possibilities
  • perspective taking and theory of mind
  • language with multiple meanings; inferences, polysemous words, idoims, jokes
  • graphic organziers linked to text structure
  • note taking- main ideas and details
  • skimming vs deep reading
  • planning how to remember information
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Organizing and Prioritizing

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  • identify and use something to structure your thinking: graphic organziers, note-taking strategies, group information for review
  • comprehension based strategies can guide written work; graphic organizers, topic sentence+ details, argument+ evidence
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Organizing and Prioritizing Deadlines and Tasks

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  • sequencing and task analysis- support students as they figure out sub tasks to a major assignment, link tasks to time allotted and use an agenda to plan
  • consider that identifying the important thing to focus on may be difficult and require structure
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Remembering things

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  • chunking
  • mnemonics
  • visualization
  • drawing/diagrams
  • test taking strategies vs remembering other things
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Self Monitoring: Proof Reading

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-check their own work
- agree on what to look for in advance
- technological tools if allowed
- increased errors in writing associated with DLD

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Self Monitoring: Strategy Use:

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  • what is working
  • what is not working
  • where do I experience problems
  • where do other people report that I have difficulty
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Role of Classroom Structure: universal design

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  • many strategies are useful to all kids
  • teacher competency in supporting structures matter
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Role of Classroom Structure: Focus on UDL- but remember to tailor

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  • consider that the language load to use many of the strategies is heavy
  • plan how to support and strengthen a child’s personal use of strategies
  • adapt tools that worked for the whole class to your individual strengths and weaknesses