It's all in a name
Emergent literacy
LLE
what is late language emergence or late talker?
Metalinguistic competence
What is the ability to think about and analyze language as an object of attention. This is acquired throughout the school years. Individuals with autism often have difficulty with this.
Preschoolers typically acquire vocabulary at this rate
What is 2 new words/day or 860 words/year?
ZPD
What is the Zone of Proximal Development that Vygotsky describes that has three phases to include attendance to social partners, emergence and coordination of joint attention and transition to language?
Activities of daily living (ADLs).
What are functional skills that address the ability to take care of one's own personal hygiene (washing, dressing, grooming), cooking, cleaning, shopping, managing finances, accessing community resources, to name a few?
AAVE
What is African American Vernacular English?
A mechanical issue in the ear that contributes to this kind of hearing loss.
What is a conductive hearing loss?
Specific Language Impairment
What is when a child shows some areas of strength in language and weakness in others, and a history of slow vocabulary development, exhibiting first words around the age of two?
Language acquisition device (LAD)
What is the theory that Chomsky defined as the existence of one language that is innate not learned?
Code-switching.
What is when speakers have more than one language in common and alternate between the two languages?
DSM-5
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5th edition?
An IQ of 70-75.
What helps to define an intellectual disability?
The period between ages 1-3.
What is Toddlerhood?
the use of a higher pitch, slowed speech, repetition, exaggerated intonation, and close proximity when talking with infants.
What is parentese?
Indirect services that a speech language pathologist may provide to a student on his/her caseload.
What are consultations with classroom teacher, other therapists, family members, specialists (reading specialists, behaviorist), outside consultants, to name a few?
MLU
What is the Mean Length of Utterance?
A surgical implant within the cochlea that helps persons with profound hearing loss.
What is a cochlear implant?
Cooing
What is observed in infants as early as 2 months?
communication intent, receptive and expressive language, joint attention, turn taking, eye contact, speech production.
What are the Building Blocks of Language (remember the pyramid?)
What is a closed or open head injury that may result in an individual experiencing neurological, communication, and physical impairment/s that requires lifelong support, often categorized as mild, moderate, severe?
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Children experience slower milestones in language development that can include difficulties in comprehension and/or production of language form, content, and/or use.
What is a language disorder?
Joint attention.
What is the simultaneous engagement of two or more individuals in mental focus on a single external object of focus typically emerging and developing between 6 months and 1 year?
a nationally recognized organization that credentials speech language pathologists and audiologists, provides EBPs, access to resources for professional development and education to others (parents, teachers, community).
What is ASHA (The American Speech Language Hearing Association)?