Social Communication Flashcards
Language Symptoms of ADHD: Executive Functioning
-sustained attention
- planning and organisation
- focus on details
Language Symptoms of ADHD: Social Communication
inattention can lead to over looked social cues
Language Symptoms of ADHD: Language Processing
- difficulty following directions
- difficulty understanding long, complex information
Language Symptoms of ADHD: Expressive Language
difficulties with sequencing and organisation, coherence
Language Symptoms of ADHD: Dyslexia
co-occurs at a high rate
Children with language disorders are at risk in schools
- 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
Adolescents with language disorder at risk
- 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.
Federal Law- Discipline and IEPs
- 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
Role of SLP
- mental health screening
- behavioral problem screening
- advocacy and education
- attitude shifting
Screening
- 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
Advocacy and Education
- 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
Attitude Shifting
- 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.
Universal Design for Learning
- 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
Intervention Methods for Repairs and Communication Breakdown
- checking in about comprehension
- pause time and how to hold the floor while you think
- alternative strategies (drawing, gesturing, pointing)
intervention methods for social situations
- social stories
- role play
- video modeling
- self-reflection