Lang. Assessment Quiz 2

How long from referral to completed IFSP?

45 days

How long from IFSP to starting services?

30 days

When should IFSP be reviewed?

6 months, child achieved outcome, new area of need identified

What criteria make children eligible for EI Part C Services?

Qualifying medical diagnoses, direct evaluation with Bayley or Battelle with developmental domain standard score ≤ 77, Informed Clinical Opinion

What is the typical sequence of language development during the first year of life?

Joint attention Gestures Words

What qualifies as an intentional communication act?

Must be adult directed, intended effect of influencing adult’s behavior, persisting if adult fails to respond in intended way

What type of communication functions do you expect to observe?

Request and protests/rejections (regulatory functions), Comments (joint attention functions)

What is the receptive phonological developmental sequence during the first year in typical children?

25th week of gestation: hear sounds, 1 month -detects prosodic, phonemic categories, 2 months - detects utterance boundaries in connected speech

What is the expressive phonological developmental sequence during the first year in typical children?

0-2 months - vegetative sounds, 2-4 months - cooing, laughing, 4-6 months - quasi-resonant nuclei, vocal play, 6-10 months- canonical, reduplicated babbling-CV syllables intonation contours

What is the receptive vocabulary size of a typical 8-12-month-old?

3-50 words

What does a child need to know to understand a word?

Phonological shape, conceptual meaning, morphosyntactic features (e.g., count noun)

How many communicative acts does the typical 8-12-month-old make per minute during free play?

2.5/min: frequency of communicative acts

What do intentional communication behaviors look like between 8-12 months?

Preverbal intentional communication using gaze, gesture, and vocalization

What proportion of communication attempts are socially interpretable at 14 months of age? Speech?

67% socially interpretable, 41% with interpretable speech acts

How many conversation turns are expected between an average developing 14-month-old and their communication partner?

3-5 interchanges

What is gestural production at 15 months predictive of?

First word use, language development

What are the three categories of gesture production?

Dietetic, symbolic, representational

What is the receptive vocabulary size of a typical 15-month-old?

~50 words

What is the expressive vocabulary size of a typical 15-month-old?

~10 words

How many communicative acts does the typical 18-month-old make per minute during free play?

Two communicative acts per minute at 18 months

What is the phonological inventory of a typical 18-month-old?

18 – 36 mo.  /p, m, h, n, w, b/   24 – 48 mo. / k, g, d, t, ŋ /

What syllable shapes are you likely to observe in a typical 18-month-old?

CV shape, 1 syllable; some reduplicated words (/baba/) closed syllables emerge (CVC)

How intelligible is the speech of a typical typical 18-month-old?

25-50% intelligible to familiar speakers

What proportion of communication attempts are socially interpretable at 20 months of age? Speech?

90% socially interpretable, 80% with interpretable speech acts

How many conversation turns are expected between an average developing 20-month-old and their communication partner?

4-6 interchanges

How many communicative acts does the typical 24-month-old make per minute in free play?

5-7 communicative acts per minute

What is the approximate receptive vocabulary size of a typical 24-month-old?

~150-300 words

What is the expressive vocabulary size of a typical 24-month-old?

~150-300 words

When do typically developing children begin making two-word combinations?

After acquiring expressive vocabulary 50-100 words, 18-24 months

What is an example of an early emerging semantic relation?

Agent, action, object combinations, Possession, Location, Attributes

At 24-months what MLU in morphemes is a “red flag” for language delay?

< 1.5 MLU in morphemes

What morphological structures do you expect a 2-and-a-half-year-old to make?

Brown’s stages II: Present progressive (-ing), in, on, regular s-plurals

What proportion of communication attempts are socially interpretable at 32 months of age? Speech?

98% socially interpretable, 97% with interpretable speech acts

How many conversation turns are expected between an average developing 20-month-old and their communication partner?

5-7 interchanges

How intelligible is the speech of a typical 36-month-old?

50-75% intelligible

What is the approximate mean utterance length in words produced by a typical 36-month-old?

3-5 words

What are the five levels of symbolic play?

Pre-symbolic, Auto symbolic, Single-scheme symbolic, Combinatorial symbolic games, Hierarchical pretend

What is an example of an early emerging semantic relation?

Agent, action, object combinations, Possession, Location, Attributes

What emerging language behaviors can you measure using a language sample in the emerging language period?

Phonemic and syllable shape inventory, frequency of single word and word combination productions, range of semantic relationships, MLUm, Brown’s stage

What should the SLP assess in the emerging language developmental period?

Play and gesture, intentional communication, comprehension, speech-motor, phonological skills, lexical production, semantic-syntactic production

What should the SLP report for each area of assessment?

Frequency of communication, Diversity of function, Diversity of forms. sensitive to cultural differences in communication styles

How would you elicit a language sample during the emerging language developmental period?

Home recorded, home visit, clinical sample

What emerging language behaviors can you measure using a language sample in the emerging language period?

Phonemic and syllable shape inventory, frequency of single word and word combination productions, range of semantic relationships, MLUm, Brown’s stage

What information should you consider when making a diagnostic decision?

IDEA eligibility guidelines, Risk factors, family priorities, functional needs

What profile of cognitive and language strengths and deficits did the textbook advocate for a “wait and see” approach?

Deficits in expressive verbal language only