CSD 212 Lecture Notes - Agrammatism, Cerebral Cortex, Indep
6 Dec 2013
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Must understand what"s normal to understand what isn"t. Definition: difficulty w/ comprehension and/or expression of lang. form/content/use. Toddlers who lag in ability to understand/produce words. Delay: children perform similarly to younger children (5yo talks like 3yo) Disorder: aberrant lang. characteristics, not typical of normal development. Sounds slow to develop, used in unusual way. Id words that rhyme, begin/end w/ same sound, blending, segmenting . Trouble w/ abstract concepts, over-reliance on context for meaning. Lang. disorder that can"t be attributed to known causation. No deficits in hearing, oral struc. /func. , gen. intelligence, perception. Extracting regularities (rules) from lang. in enviro. (form) Informal measures -- elicitation of specific forms (book vs. books) Lang. samples -- write down exactly what kid says to analyze later. May receive intervention @ 1 of many locations. Self-talk: clinician talks about what s/he is doing. Parallel-talk: clinician talks about what child & clinician are doing. Significant difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, math.
