Defining moments
what is it?
Tools to use
"use" language
Mixed bag
100
the period when conventional words are just beginning to appear as viable forms of communication typically 18-36 month old developmental level
What is Emerging Language (EL)?
100
inaccurate speech errors, reversing sounds in words, and more errors as utterances become more complex
What is CAS (Childhood Apraxia of Speech)?
100
rhyming and tapping out syllables can be used to develop this skill.
What is phonological awareness?
100
"I like it", "It's yucky".
What are examples of commenting?
100
this scale can establish a general developmental level.
What is the Vineland Adaptive behavior scale?
200
this process involves a child interacting with one adult or facilitator who performs some informal/formal measures while other members of the team may look on.
What is an arena assessment?
200
otitis media, family history, low maternal education, low socioeconomic status, high parental concern, and males being more vulnerable.
What are risk factors for language delay?
200
this acronym helps to develop goals for the IEP.

What is SMART?

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200
this describes the back and forth of a communication partner and his/her listener.
What is turn-taking?
200
helps to identify those at risk of language and/or reading impairments.
What is a screening?
300
can be used as a reliable and valid marker of language impairment that can be used for benchmarking deficits and documenting intervention outcomes.
What is MLU (Mean Length of Utterance)?
300
at 36 months, a child should be at least 80% successful.
What is intelligible?
300
this profile is something that a teacher can complete that helps to identify a child's attentiveness, receptive expressive language, and social pragmatic language.
What is the Functional Communication Profile?
300

"I want the big cookie".
What is an example of requesting (with an attribute)?
300
communicative intentions
What is one of the areas of a pragmatic assessment?
400
when an individual engages in saying hello, goodbye, waving to others.
What is ritualizing behavior?
400
Brown described this when used correctly 90% of the time of obligatory contexts
What is when a morpheme is acquired?
400
a Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts
What is SALT?
400
the ability to make needs known after an initial attempt when the listener didn't understand the speaker.
What is communication repair?
400
deitic, representational, symbolic
What are three kinds of pointing/gestures?
500
taking a child's utterance and immediately recasting it in a different syntactic form that retains the child's meaning to provide useful feedback to the child.

What is the recasting technique?

Chapter 9

500
a structured interaction in which the clinician attempts to elicit communication from the child that offers "bait" by putting desirable foods out of the child's reach but visible.
What is the Peanut Butter Protocol?
500
this examines a child's single word receptive vocabulary understanding.
What is the PPVT (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test)?
500
having a typically developing child assigned to accompany a child with pragmatic language issues around were they are rewarded for three levels of interactions, stay, play, and talk.
What is use of a "Buddy" for Peer-Mediated Pragmatic Skills Training?
500
identifies the function of maladaptive behaviors
What is a FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment?)