Child Language Disorders Exam 2

Pros and Cons of early intervention for delayed language development in toddlers?

Pros

• Early screening and intervention that aim to prevent language, speech, and communication disorders

• Secondary preventive function: helping to minimize later effects on learning, even when the more basic oral language problems resolve

Cons

• May increase parental stress, thinking that there is something wrong with their child, especially because even late-talking children can and mostly do catch up to their peers.

What is meant by “children with emerging language” in this chapter?

• the era in development in which conventional words are beginning to appear as viable forms of communication

  • producing single words, and beginning to combine words into two-word utterances and simple sentences

• typically around 18-36 months

What is involved in “family centered” intervention for toddlers and why is it important?

• understand what the parents are hoping for their child to get out of intervention

• discussing expectations and possible outcomes

• including familys observations in the assessment

• find ways for the family to be active and involved in intervention

• identify normal routines and enviornments

• review progress

• work with family to find ways to encourporate intervention and naturalistic learning oppurtunites into everyday life

• All are important becuase as an SLP we are only seeing the child 1 or 2 times per week therefore majority of te intervention and praactice wil occur in the home, making it important for families to understnad and agree with what their child will be participiating in, in order to maximize therapy affects.

Descirbe communication skills seen normally developing 18-month olds in terms of comprehenison, vocabulary size, sentencce structues, and phonology?

• 2 communicative acts per minute to request objects or actions, join joint attention, engage in social interaction

  • often uses gestures and vocalizations more than words

• between 18-24 months communication greatly increases

• lexicon

  • 110 words(average)

• 18-24 months only understand 2-3 words out of a sentecne that they hear

Descirbe communication skills seen normally developing 24-month olds in terms of comprehenison, vocabulary size, sentencce structues, and phonology?

• 5-7 communicative acts per minute

  • mostly words or word combinations

• 75% of typically developing 25-month-olds use multi-word utterances

• 24-36 months

  • 98% produce two-word utterances

  • 90% produce 3-word utterances

  • 84% produce 4-word utterances

  • understand three word sentences

  • more sophistctated comprehension skills

    • can use words, gestures, and facial expressions to understand

• sound classes

  • voiced and voiceless stops

  • nasals

  • glides

  • 1-2 fricatives

• word shapes

  • CV, CVC, CVCV, CVCVC

  • some clusters

• accuracy

  • 70%

• common error patterns

  • fircatives/affricatives replaced by stops

  • liquids replaced by glides

• intellligiability

  • 50%

• leixcon

  • 250-300 words

Descirbe communication skills seen normally developing 30-month olds in terms of comprehenison, vocabulary size, sentencce structues, and phonology?

• 24-36 months

  • 98% produce two-word utterances

  • 90% produce 3-word utterances

  • 84% produce 4-word utterances

• sound classses

  • exemplars of all sound classes: stops, nasals, glides, fricatives, affricates, liquids

• word shape

  • one-to three- syllable words

  • several initial and final clusters

• accuracy

  • 87%

• common error patterns

  • velars and palatals replaced by alveolars

  • clusters reduced to a single consonant

  • unstressed syllables delelted

• intellegibutly

  • 75%

• lexicon

  • >1000 words