Professionals specializing in evaluating child development and counseling parents
What is a Child Development Specialist?
100
Involves the significant people in the settings where the child must communicate. Should be a coordinated process of determining individualized goals for the specific needs of the child.
What is the multifaceted process of intervention.
100
A child is also at risk for development in those other domains that are coupled to language - motor, cognitive and social.
What is a child whose language is disordered is also what?
100
Assessments that evaluate language abilities using formal tests. (normative data)
What is standardized assessment?
100
A specialist trained in the identification, assessment and treatment of human communication disorders, including speech, language and swallowing disorders
What is a Speech-Language Pathologist
200
Language disorders associated with physiological causes such as brain damage or hearing loss. Ideologies that are congenital.
What is Organic Language Disorders?
200
Arranging treatment factors in an individual's environment to facilitate language learning. When a professional assists those who interact with a child to facilitate language learning.
What is intervention.
200
Collective use of a variat of the primary language.
What is a dialect?
200
1. Interact with each other rather than inform
2. Press self to communicate in 2nd language (all same words drawn upon, but may be incorrect)
3. Can communicate while attending details of correctness.
What are the 3 stages of successive acquistion?
200
A specialist trained in the identification, assessment and treatment of hearing disorders.
What is an Audiologist?
300
Assessments that evaluate language disabilities through informal procedures, such as natural language samples.
What is Non-standardized assessment?
300
Language Disorders that have no apparent organic basis.
What are functional language disorders?
300
Speaker alternates between using devices and styles of 2 dialects.
He toted the grocery bag into the house.
What is style shifting? Give an example.
300
1. biological foundations
2. motor capacities
3. cognitive abilities
4. social opportunities to learn from their interactions.
What variables are children's individual development based on?
300
A medical pratctitioner trained in diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
What is an Otorhinolaryngologist?
400
Unique words phrases and devices used by an individual speaker, as long as the message is understood.
What is an idiolect?
400
A New Yorker inserts /r/ into word ending with vowel when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. OR
A Southerner neutralizes a vowel that preceds a nasal consonant.
What are examples of the symphony of diversity we might hear in traveling around the US?
400
Variations in geographic areas
groups who have become socially homogenous
socioeconomic status
shared ethnicity
What influences dialect?
400
Standard American English
What is SAE?
400
A medical practitioner specializing in evaluating and treating brain function.
What is a Neurologist?
500
At least 10
How many regional dialects does the US have?
500
Northern
Midland
Southern
What are the 3 major dialect areas?
500
initially vocabulary is mix of individual non-overlapping words
sort out words in both languages
sort vocabulary and grammar systems
What are the 3 stages of simultaneous acquisition?
500
Understanding precedes expression
Comprehension initially relies heavily on cues in the here-and-now
Simple to complex
Interactive preceeds decontextualized language
In learning a second language what 4 broad principles apply?
500
Professionals who evaluate and treat emotional disorders