Language/ Language Impairments
Language disorder that is not caused by any known neurological, sensory, intellectual, or emotional deficit.
What is Specific Language Impairment/ Developmental Language disorder
A test that has been given to a group of children that supposedly represents all children for whom the test was designed and scores determined.
What is a normed test?
The type of setting that is most desirable when collecting a language sample.
What is naturalistic?
The time period of education where learning is concrete and focuses on socioemotional growth.
What is preschool?
Owens describes this as use of repetitions, drills, and other structured tasks to provide therapy.
What is the traditional model?
Area of language most impacted by a child who has difficulty with auxiliary verbs, articles, verb endings, etc.
What is syntax/morphology?
The effectiveness of a test that measures what it says it measures.
What is validity?
The type of play that is describe by familiar, routine-like experiences that happen in children's lives.
What is script-play?
The time period of education when students are expected to reorganize material as they listen and draw out key points themselves.
What is middle and high school?
The carry-over of new communication forms to everyday conversational use.
What is generalization?
A whole or partial repetition of previous utterances, often with the same intonation.
What is echolalia?
A method of assessing children that starts with testing, then teaching, then re-testing the child. Best used for children from non-mainstream backgrounds.
What is dynamic assessment?
A task designed to assess a child's referential communication ability. It involves giving one person instructions while the other follows, both unable to see each other.
What is a barrier task?
A cognitive aspect that involves organizing, planning, goal setting, and focusing attention.
What is executive function?
The prerequisite skills needed for successful communicative behaviors. Needed prior to attempting the linguistic manner in intervention.
What are cognitive skills?
An active process that allows limited information to be stored in a temporary accessible state while cognitive processing occurs.
What is working memory?
Questions used to obtain information about a child's background, learn more about the parents'/caregivers' concerns, cultural differences, etc.
What is an interview?
A language sample that asks for an explanation of how to do something or what something is, think non-fiction.
What is expository discourse?
The kind of assessment that asks a child to show what they know in a way that is most natural for them.
What is authentic assessment?
The relatedness of a parent or other facilitator's response to the content or topic of a child's previous response.
What is semantic contingency?
The ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc.—to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one's own.
What is Theory of Mind?
A norm-referenced test designed to assess children who speak AAE and MAE.
What is the DELV - Diagnostic Evaluation for Language Variance?
The production and interpretation of information from the perspective of the speaker (e.g., Come here).
What is deixis?
An intervention model that assumes that learning problem-solving strategies is better than learning facts.
What is strategy-based intervention?
To teach a generative repertoire of linguistic features that can be used to communicate in socially appropriate ways in various contexts and to stimulate overall language development.
What is the purpose of language intervention?