Treatment

Question 1

Pragmatics- Barrier Activities

Answer 1

to help the patient understand listener’s needs
Slow down, ask step-by-step questions
Check for understanding

Question 2

Pragmatics- PACE Activities

Answer 2

helps assure that they convey the message to the listener productively
keep message short without a lot of detail

Question 3

Pragmatics- Role Playing

Answer 3

can give the patient chances to practice pragmatic communicative skills

Question 4

Pragmatics- Direct Intervention

Answer 4

the “indirect” barrier or PACE type of treatment probably will need to be supplemented with direct treatment of deficits
Here, the clinician and patient directly address such problems as eye contact, recognizing and repairing breakdowns, understanding irony, and so forth.
describing pictures or summarizing media reports, focusing on the main themes

Question 5

Prosody-Contrastive Stress Drills

Answer 5

Practice saying underlined written words in sentence that needs to be stressed

Question 6

Prosody- Producing Sentences

Answer 6

Producing sentences with lexical (multi-meaning word-record vs. record), syntactic (questions vs. statement), or semantic (literal vs. figurative) ambiguity.

Question 7

Comprehending Prosody

Answer 7

• Begin with a discussion of how someone’s voice can convey emotion
• Identify attitude in sentences that are linguistically and prosodically the same
• Match prosodic stimuli to a single mood (“I lost the game.” to a choice of happy, angry, or bored)
• Introduce discrepancies- “I had an enjoyable vacation” is said in a sad voice
• Discuss situations where discrepancies are normally produced (teasing, sarcasm)
• Practice identifying spoken instances of sarcasm and teasing through role playing