Who Shall Be Called Language Disordered?

Question 1

Assessment Process to id children

Answer 1

• referral -does he need an assessment or not
• description of Aspects of Commun. -voice, speech, language, fluency, and hearing.
• decision of changes to be made
• how they will improve child’s skills
• etiology or reason for problem-acquired?

Question 2

Identification DOES NOT:

Answer 2

• discuss etiology
• formulate treatment goals
• discuss nature of disorder
• imply therapy will address of improve a child’s deficit
• really just id-ing if c has deficit.

Question 3

Surface Structure

Answer 3

• actual arrangement of words in syntactic order

- sometimes c may not understand what he is talking about

Question 4

Deep Structure

Answer 4

• underlies the S-structure and is abstract

- holds rules for sentence formation

Question 5

Transformations

Answer 5

• relates S and D

- creative, different sentence types adding, deleting, rearranging or substituting words

Question 6

Age Equivalence

Answer 6

• doesn’t give comparative info just a range not norm.
• worry more about where he is at and what should happen next
• how many words not important- meaning behind them WAY more important
• child’s performance relative to comparative pop. is more acceptable (standard dev.)