Assessing Advanced language part 1

Question 1

Assessing advanced language- we’re talking about ages:

Answer 1

12-adulthood (language age, not chronological)

Question 2

Children at this age are beginning to produce more rubust narratives & _________ _________

Answer 2

complex sentences

Question 3

At this age children are also able to:

Answer 3

1. make some inferences
2. engage in conversation (meaningful)
3. engage in metalinguistic convo (showing awareness and how it’s used)

Question 4

At this age children are still having problems with:

Answer 4

wobbling language

Question 5

More of advanced language at this age:

Answer 5

1. communicating for social interaction
2. critical thinking: problem solve outloud
3. written language along w/ reading: there are written words you use when you aren’t speaking

Question 6

Adolescents with LLD

Answer 6

1. weak language foundation: some have lang impairment history but not all require special education-makes it difficult to found: lang foundation: struggle to develop lang required for academic succes
2. special support
3. self esteem: at risk

Question 7

Student centered assessment

Answer 7

1. parents role
2. what to tell the student
3. establish cooperative relationship

Question 8

parents role:

Answer 8

parents become less involved in child’s social circle-they are no longer the child’s primary social unit

Question 9

What should you do when going to assess a child?

Answer 9

explain what you’re looking for and ask them a lot of questions. talk about what you’re going to assess. so we’re transitioning ownership to treatment to the student

Question 10

alot of kids struggle in school

Answer 10

work on lang skills will improve your academmic success-hard to swallow bec they struggle. paint picture around social and vocational success. let them talk about famous person they really think is great and find interview by them to hear ab their academic success

Question 11

Identification

Answer 11

1. screenings
2. referrals
3. self-referrals
4. standardized assessments

Question 12

screenings

Answer 12

you can find at risk groups but tends to be a waste of time

Question 13

where could you find group of kids that might not be getting served?

Answer 13

go into specilal service classes- those getting extra support in reading aren’t seeing SLPs. so any of the at risk kids. most high schools will flag kids who aren’t graduating and do screenings on kids
-educate teachers on self esteem

Question 14

students self referrals

Answer 14

kids usually dont do this

-maybe we could boost up language. try to get students to understand that might be.

Question 15

standardized assessments

Answer 15

kids could be high on some and drop down on some like her son

• global asssessments are sensitive enough to pick up what’s going on. so you could give specific portions of these assessments
• after this do criterion

Question 16

Assessment domains: Semantics (areas of weakness for kids w/ LLD)

Answer 16

1. literate lexicon
2. word retreival
3. word defiinitions/ word relations
4. figurative language
5. verbal reasoning

Question 17

Literate lexicon

Answer 17

how do kids in this age range learn vocab? direct instruction! students have prob w/ lang may not understand use of language in definition

• another way kids learn new vocab = contextual abstraction: can figure out meaning in context
• that’s a metalinguistic process: “that’s a word i don’t know. underline and look up”
• dynamic assessment to see if they can define word; if don’t know it, then scaffold-helps find words out that point to definition.
• if don’t get w/ scaffold- direct intervention
• students also learn new vocab in morphological- meaning o fmall words/directly teach prefixes and suffixes)

Question 18

Word retreival problem with kids w/ LLD

Answer 18

Discrepancy between expressive and receptive- if expressive is much lower then word retreival might e the problem
-these kids should be more sophisticated; a little kid says bird we expect more than one component-being able to understand how words relate to each other also becomes important at this point (gigantic means bigger than big)

Question 19

Figurative language

Answer 19

challenging! cognitive skil shifting your mind fluidly- looking at patterns-being able to suppress one idea to get the next idea. fig language is you suppressing on idea to allow that other idea to come up

• wana do dynamic assessment to see if scaffold these
• 2 definitions of the word flower and then they can only think of the thing that grows in the ground

Question 20

verbal reasoning

Answer 20

using language for problem solving, planning things or organizing-it’s thinking out loud/talking about whatever i tis

Question 21

Assessment domains: syntax and morphology

Answer 21

1. comprehension
2. production sampling contexts (narratives, exposition, comparison of oral and written samples)
3. production measures

Question 22

comprehension

Answer 22

by this age group kids should comprehend all sentence types! they are no longer using those strategies like word order or what makes the most sense-they should actually have that

Question 23

language sampling:

Answer 23

wanna look at narratives, expository texts, and comparison of oral and written samples

Question 24

children in the advanced language learning stage learn new vocabulary through

Answer 24

context cues & morphological analysis

Question 25

most all children in the advanced language learning stage will be receiving special services for academics

Answer 25

FALSE

Question 26

children in the advanced learning language stage are at risk for low self esteem

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

dynamic assessmen for figurative language can be used when assessing a child in the advanced language learning stage

Answer 27

TRUE