Test 3 Flashcards
What is Facilitative Play?
A technique for encouraging maximal talking from a younger child/toddler (3-4yo). Helps to encourage verbal output from child. It provides low structured modeling of language structures and conversational strategies
2 Key Factors of Facilitative Play
- Topic of immediate interest to child
2. De-emphasizes the adult image as one of power & authority
3 Important Aspects that are combined to create Facilitative Play
- Shared Reference
- Feedback and Responsiveness
- Appropriate Models
Facilitative Play Techniques
Appealing activities, Follow child’s lead, avoid directing child, talk about what the child is doing, use language of appropriate level for child
Language Intervention-Pragmatics
Activities
Telephone conversations, Copying a Model with Play-doh or Legos, Re-enact child’s stories, Social stories
What are 2 things we need to promote to facilitate effective communication with children?
Theory of Mind & Social-Emotional Learning
5 Things that Programs such as “Kimochi’s” promote
Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Self-Managment, Relationship Skill, Responsible Decision Making
What 3 Things does Pragmatics target?
Intentions, Conversational Abilities and Narration
What are the different ways of Expression Intentions and how does it relate to Theory of Mind
1.Calling for intention- waiting for child to request my attention (eye contact, tapping me, saying my name, etc.) 2. Requesting Action/Objects- Set up situation where ch 3. needs to ask for help to finish task. 4.Requesting Information- A sense that people are a sense of information. 4. Responding to requests/answering questions/Replying to remarks
How does a clinician increase a child’s the use and awareness of statements?
Show and tell, current event activities, discussion of high-interest topics
When teaching a ch conversational abilities what is the heirarchy of behavior?
- Walk over to friend
- Watch friend
- Get a toy like friend is playing with
- Do same thing with toy as friend
- Verbal Initiation (scary)
What are Referential Skills
the ability to identify novel content and describing it to a listener
What is an important element of Referential Skills?
Topic
Why is topic vital to Referential Skills?
- Coordinates conversations and actions and fosters interpersonal
- Regulates the sequence of a conversation
- Involves the initiation of a conversation
- Requires listening and comprehension to maintain the flow of conversation
- Provides a framework for making relevant conversation
What is topic initiation?
Verbal introduction of topic not currently being discussed.
What is a cue that can help with Topic Maintenance?
“Then what happened?” or….”Did that happen at the zoo?” Practice with multiple partners in different settings.
What can we do for incessant talkers?
We can choose limited topics with definite boundaries. Cue with statements like “you’ve already told me that”…..establish boundaries and create recognition of them.
What are the steps to Conversational Repair?
- Identifying, labeling and demonstration of ative listening
- Detection of and reaction to inadequate signals
- Detection of and reaction to inadequate context (don’t understand word, need more info.)
- Identification of and reaction to communication breakdown