Lang. Development
The smallest meaningful unit of a language
Morpheme
Children who have developed no verbal language.
Nonverbal/nonspeaking
A language theory which suggests that infants learn oral language from other human role models through a process involving imitation, rewards, and practice.
Behavioral theory
A type of non standardized assessment which allows for a more naturalistic assessment of a child's expressive and receptive language abilities.
Language sampling
A therapy model in which the SLP works directly with families or caregivers and teaches them how to interact with the child to promote communication and language skills
Family-based Intervention/Caregiver Implemented Intervention
The rules for organizing words in sentences
Syntax
Difficulty with language that is not caused by a known neurological, sensory, intellectual or emotional deficit.
Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
or
Developmental Language Disorder
Language development theory that focuses on children's innate ability to identify patterns within their native language.
Statistical learning theory
The acronym used to describe the types of goals SLPs write in the written assessment report.
SMART
A language facilitation strategy in which the SLP describes out loud what the child is seeing, hearing, or doing during play.
Parallel Talk
Early vocalizations expressions of discomfort/distress in responding to physiological states.
Reflexive/Vegetative sounds
A child who is showing typical development in all areas except the development of expressive language. These children are at increased risk for language disorders.
Late Talkers
A special biological brain mechanism thought to enable an infant to acquire and produce language within the Nativist theory of language development.
Language acquisition device
A formal measurement of hearing acuity
Language therapy approach in which the SLP takes a direct approach to teaching specific language skills to a child
Adult-centered therapy
A set of behaviors associated with the first 12 months of life before the development spoken words. Include laughing, babbling, cooing, and crying.
Prelinguistic Behaviors
The development of language in a manner that is atypical for individuals of the same age or younger.
Language Deviance
Individual associated with the language development theory which states that the ability to learn language is inborn and nature is more important than nurture when it comes to language development.
Noam Chomsky
A type of assessment in which allows the SLP to compare the child being tested to normally developing children of the same age
Norm referenced test
A language facilitation strategy used with multilingual children which highlights words that share the same same meaning as well as the same or similar spelling & pronunciation in a child's two languages.
Cognates
A milestone of school age language development, the ability to reflect consciously on the nature and properties of language such as its rules, creativity, playfulness and double meanings.
Metalinguistic Awarness
A type of language disorder that occurs due to a life event that interrupts a child's typical language development.
Acquired language disorder
Theory which states that language development is influenced by a child's desire to communicate with others in their environment.
Interactionist Theory
A measurement used to evaluate the early development of language form.
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
A language facilitation strategy in which the SLP provides more uses what the child has said and provides extra context.
Child: “baby is crying”
Adult: “The baby is crying. He might be hungry”
Extension