SPCH 418 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pragmatics
12 Dec 2016
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A functional language approach: definition of communication. Developmental disorders, acquired disorders, or delays characterized by deficits or immaturities in the use of spoken or written language for comprehension or production that may involve the form, content, and use of language; developmental. Down syndrome; acquired disorder stroke, tbi; delays can affect all areas of language. *make your training environment as close to their daily environment as possible: seven variables that affect generalization, training targets: Overall target, main goal, question comprehension; chosen based on the needs of the client and their interests within their daily commutative environment, targets need to be functional: training items. Actual items used to hit the target; actual questions you will train going to pick specific questions to ask during therapy: method of training. How closely your therapy context resembles their daily environment to make it as naturalistic as possible: language facilitators.
