Week Two

Question 1

What are the five principles for intervention for school aged children with LLD?

Answer 1

1. Use curriculum based instruction
2. Integrate oral and written language
3. Go meta (support linguistic awareness)
4. Collaborate to facilitate academic success

Question 2

What may semantic difficulties look like in school-aged children?

Answer 2

• Use of non-specific words (e.g., getting vs collecting)
• Difficulty with abstract words and relational concepts (comparatives vs superlatives)
• General formulation difficulties (piecing sentences together)

Question 3

True or false: Children with LLD need a completely different approach to language learning compared to typically developing children

Answer 3

False, Strategies for language learning in typically developing children work for children with LLD, but they just need a HIGHER QUANTITY of it.

Question 4

What are some underlying cognitive processing challenges children with LLD have?

Answer 4

• Difficulty with statistical learning (being exposed to whole bodies of data and being able to pick out patterns)
• Difficulty with phonological processing
• Difficulty with semantic processing (extracting meaning from context)

Question 5

When choosing which vocabulary to teach, what words should be targeted?

Answer 5

• Words that are functional and tied to a meaningful context (classroom, and home words if necessary)
• Tier 2 words: medium frequency, can be used in a variety of ways

Question 6

What are the best practice techniques to teach children vocabulary (1 - 3)

Answer 6

1. Repetition: number of times you say the target word
2. Definition: explicitly define the word
3. Lexical depth: Words related to the target word (antonyms, synonyms)

Question 7

What are the best practice techniques to teach children vocabulary (4-6)

Answer 7

4. Demonstration: SLP/Children act out, illustrate or demonstrate the target word
5. Contextualization: Extend the meaning of the target word beyond the current activity
6. Use/grammar: References how the word is used in sentences, including variations in grammatical form

Question 8

What are the best practice techniques to teach children vocabulary (7-9)?

Answer 8

7. Morphology: References morphological features of the word, or other words that are morphologically related
8. Phonology/orthography: References phonology (sounds making up words), pronunciation or letters
9. Active engagement: Have the child do something relevant to the target word, including saying or defining the word

Question 9

True/false: visual