Language disorders final Essay

Compares an individuals performance to the performance of a sample of his/her peers.

a subgroup of individuals chosen to be representative of teh normative population of interest

Childs utternaces are contrasted against "expanded" adult model

derived socres expressed as the chonological age or grade placement of that group for whom an obtained score was typical

a general term refering to transformed or normalized scores used to compare an individuals performance to that of his/her peers standard scores

measure for expressing the amount of dispersion or variability ina set of scores with reference to the mean

the extent to which an insturment measures what it claims to measure

the extent to which results obtained by an instrument with a given subject are similar or consistent

The tendency for observations or valused to cluster around some value

The prevalent rate or frequncy at which a specific langauge behavior occurs prior to intervention

A language skill should be specified in such a way that its occurence or non-occurence can be easily identified

a structure used correctly in 90% of accuracy of obligatory contexts

goals based on normal sequence may not represent all children, goals are more functional may be more valuable to individuals clients to serve thier communication needs

Goals are derrived from normal language devlopment sequences. children learn sturcre according to what is easier and more useful

The primary object/event/ relationship in whose presence a specific langauge behavior is expected response

the primary verbal simuli presented to evoke a respone to the stimulus

audtiory, visula, and or kinesthetic/tactile stimlu provided in addtion to the primary stimulus to promote facilitate or support correct respondig by the client

a procedure in wich the clinicain provides an auditory stimulus to be imitated by the client.

A response by the client that is realitively immediate reproduction of an auditory stimulus (the model) provided by the clinician

The ability of teh clinician to adjust the various management factors so as to fine tune the learning experience of a client

A procedure used by the clinician that may supplement either imitative or spontateous response by the client

a procedure used by the clinician that involves commenting on the topic of a child's utternace but not necessarily using the same words

transferring/maintaing the behavior to a varitey stimlu settings and audiences

any event that follows a response and increases its frequency or strength

creating a behavior that is infrequent or nonexistent

Orderly sequence of training steps that are designed to cause the client to produce a selected language behavior. Clinician provides maximum stimulus report in the early stages and gradually withdraws the support until the client is able to make the response more spontaneously

determines the exsistence of a problem, describe the childs current baseline, determines goals for mangagemetn and measure behavioral change over time

a Hypothesis is regarding the system of rules used by the speakers/listeners of a language to produce and understand sentences

The study of how language units acquire meaning of the speakers/listners of a language sample

study of speaker/listener intentions and relations and all elements of the context in which the message occurs