Miscellaneous
Terms
Documentation
Language Therapy Pre-K to 5th
Phonological Processes
100

Two organic reasons for an articulation disorder.

What are cleft palate, hearing impairment (also syndromes, traumatic brain injury, etc)

100

Gradually decreasing the number of models and prompts used to elicit a response.

What is fading?

100

Used to determine progress, the need to alter the therapy plans, or dismissal.

What is DATA (data collection)?

100

An adult and child are looking at the same thing at the same time.

What is a joint attention?

100
Producing /t/ for /k/

What is fronting velar consonants?

200

A highly important context for the development of social language skills.

What is PLAY?

200

How clearly someone is understood, usually reported as an approximate percentage (ex. less than 50% ___)

What is intelligibility? (less than 50% intelligible)

200

SOAP

What is Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan?

200

Smallest unit of sound in a language.

What is a phoneme?

200
Producing /w/ for /l/ or /r/

What is gliding of liquids?

300

Encompasses all methods of communication (facial, gestural, core board, SGDs) for individuals with severe expressive language disorders.

What is AAC? (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)

300

Usually used to determine if additional evaluations are necessary. Often criterion referenced. 

What are screenings? (informal screeners)

300

Title of section on the IEP that describes a child's current level of functioning.

What is "Present Level of Performance" or "Present Level of Academic, Achievement, and Functional Performance"?

300

National standards outlining the hierarchy of achievement for students in each grade in English Language Arts/Literacy and other subjects.

What are Common Core Standards?

300

Producing /pane/ for /plane/

What is consonant cluster reduction?

400

Oral language serves as the basis of this.

What is literacy (reading and writing)?

400

Another word for social language skills - how language is used in different contexts.

What are pragmatics?

400

Obtain this when determining where to "start" working on a goal.

What is baseline?

400

Verb tense: He rides; She rides; It rides

What is 3rd person singular?

400
Producing /tap/ for /sap/

What is stopping of a fricative?

500

Vocabulary words that are infrequent and subject-specific.

What is Tier 3 vocabulary?

500

Here the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) outlines expectations for professional behaviors.

What is in the Code of Ethics?

500

SMART - as it relates to goal writing

What is SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACHIEVABLE, RELEVANT(REALISTIC), TIME-BASED?

500

Reading intervention that uses questioning techniques to facilitate emergent literacy skills.

What is Dialogic reading (or shared reading)?

500

Producing /an/ for /man/

What is initial consonant deletion?