Speech-Language Pathology and ASD Review

Practice vocabulary flashcards covering interventions, diagnostic classifications, phonological awareness, literacy skills, and clinical strategies in speech-language pathology.

Pivotal response training

A program that uses a naturalistic behavior approach to intervention of ASD.

Self stimulating behavior

A sensory behavior associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Social pragmatic approach

An intervention approach for children with ASD with the guiding principle of addressing regulation of emotions and purposeful interactive communication through opportunities in the natural environment.

Echolalia

When a child with ASD imitates the last word or phrase they hear.

Theory of mind

The ability to comprehend or develop ideas about other people's feelings, thoughts, and intentions by observing them.

Intellectual disability

A condition diagnosed when an individual has significant delays in both cognitive functioning and personal adaptive skills.

Developmental language disorder

A categorization for an individual who has moderate to severe language challenges only.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

A diagnosis characterized by persistent deficits in social communication/interaction and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.

Auditory processing disorder

A disability where the individual experiences difficulty taking notes, understanding conversations on the phone, and understanding situations.

Social pragmatic communication disorder

A diagnosis for children who have normal content and form in their language but are challenged in their ability to follow social rules and conventions.

Metalinguistic skills

Knowledge and awareness that language consists of phonemes, words and sentences.

Figurative language

A term that refers to nonliteral language.

Executive functions

Control processes that provide the skills to arrange for future events, problem solve, and respond appropriately to new situations.

Blending

A phonological awareness skill that involves combining the sounds of a word into one word.

Rhyming

A phonological skill that involves placing different consonants at the beginning of the same syllable combination (e.g., "-an").

Fluency

The ability to read words in a connected text smoothly and without significant word recognition problems.

Encoding

The process of hearing a sound and being able to write a symbol that represents that sound.

The alphabetic principle

Demonstrated when a child is able to match a sound with the corresponding letter.

Narrative

A writing product or domain that involves a setting, problem, action, and outcome/resolution.

Receptive syntax

The domain and modality of language therapy exemplified by a child being able to follow directions.

Gestural cues

A strategy used to help a child with word retrieval or word finding issues.

Multisensory input

A component of an effective reading program for people with dyslexia.

Expansion

An effective therapy technique for helping to increase a child's mean length utterance (MLU).

Fading prompts and cues

The next clinical step towards advancing independence when a child reaches an 80% accuracy baseline with prompts and cues.

Subject-verb inversion

An expressive syntax target utilized when practicing the formulation of yes-no questions.