Lang Disorders Final Review

DLD

Stands for Developmental Language Disorder, affecting 7-8% of children.

Factors contributing to DLD

Include genetic, neurobiological, environmental, cognitive, and auditory processing factors.

Descriptive Developmental Approach

Focuses on understanding language status in form, content, and use without always knowing the cause.

Purposes of Intervention

Aim to change underlying problems, teach compensatory strategies, and modify the child's environment.

Zone of Proximal Development

Refers to what a learner can do unaided, with help, and cannot do.

Continuum of Naturalness

Determines the setting for intervention, with more natural settings encouraging generalization.

Language Facilitation Techniques

Include self talk, parallel talk, imitations, expansions, extensions, build ups, breakdowns, and recasts.

Intervention based on age

Varies from prelinguistic milieu teaching for infants to narratives for adolescents.

Intervention - PLAY

Involves drill play, structured play, facilitated play.

Service delivery models

Include clinician model, classroom-based, collaborative, consultative, and Response to Intervention (RTI) tiers.