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Midterm (pt 5)
LangDisSchoolAge
Question | Answer |
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Eliciting… Word classes | Pull object from bag and name it (N) Identify actions in pictures (V) Ask specific wh-questions (N/V) What will she do? (V) Hide and seek (Where is X? Prep.) How does he look? (Adj) How did she do X (Adv.) Whose x is this? (Possessive Pro.) |
Eliciting… Sequence of prepositions and conjunctions | Tell me how to.. |
Eliciting… Comparatives | Pull items from a bag and see how they differ |
Eliciting… Adjectives | Play I spy. Choices with adj. (do you want the green or black one). |
Eliciting… Verb tenses | Tell me what we’re going to do. Doing. Did...etc. |
Eliciting… Plural s- marker | Let’s play xyz...tell me what we need to play? |
Eliciting… Possessive Pronouns | Pull objects with known owners from a bag and name owner. Play dress up with action figures/dolls and have child ID what goes with whom. |
Eliciting… Complex sentences | Can you tell me how to do… Expository or narrative tasks |
Eliciting… Yes/No questions | 20 questions. Never have I ever. Go fish. Guess who. |
Performance characteristics to consider - Productivity | Are there enough words/utterances to consider it a representative sample? Adequacy of length of a sample specific to task and context. If it’s not a robust sample, don't rely on it as much to determine if therapy is warranted or to develop goals |
Performance characteristics to consider - Fluency | Frequency of disfluencies. Mazes: a series of words/unattached fragments not needed in T-unit |
Performance characteristics to consider - Lexical diversity | Number of different words. Semantic measurement with TTR. |
Performance characteristics to consider - Grammatical Complexity | MLU is the most consistent measurement utilized but loses predictive validity after 4.5 years |
Performance characteristics to consider - Grammatical Complexity | T-units improve the clinician’s ability to segment based upon grammatical structure and not via pauses or intonation changes typical of utterance segmentation. Helpful with students with run-on sentences. Can help evaluate written production. |
Performance characteristics to consider - Grammatical Complexity | Syntactical analysis |
Management | Small language samples throughout therapy to track progress and growth or different domains. Develop goals and objectives. Plan therapy activities focusing on targeted parts of speech/phrases/sentences etc. |
Types of activities | Conversation. Narrative. Expository. Play. |