Word Finding Difficulties Flashcards
1
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Characteristics of WFD
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Selection errors
Lack of Response
Delay
Mazes
Sometimes accompanied by:
- Gestures
- Metalinguistic or metacognitive comments
2
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Causes of WFD
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Problems with: Concept Lemma Lexeme Motor Plan
Breakdowns can occur in any area or in the linking of each
Look at behaviors and contexts
3
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Lemma
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Semantic/Syntactic features
4
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Lexeme
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Phonological features
5
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Areas of Intervention for WFD
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- Enhance semantic representation
- Enhance lexical access
- Accommodations
- Self-advocacy
6
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Areas of Intervention - Enhance Semantic Representation
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Strengthening the Lemma
- Description by feature, categorization, association
- Visualization
- Word maps
- Elaborated exposure
- Massed practice
- Curricular tasks
7
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Areas of Intervention - Enhance Lexical Access
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Strengthening the Lexeme
- Metalinguistic Tasks
- Segmenting
- Initial phonemes
- Rhymes
- Phonological neighbors
- microscope vs microwave
8
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Areas of Intervention - Self-Monitoring and Self-Advocacy
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Pausing
- decreasing impulsive responses
Awareness of strategies
Identifying contexts
Application
- replacing errors with more accurate forms
