Assessment for Developing Language

Developing language period
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Developing language period
3-5 years
MLU more than 2, less than 5
Vocab larger than 50 words
Combine words into sentences
Need to acquire basic sentence structure
Brown's stages II-V of MLU development
Older clients mod-severe
How is criterion referenced assessment used to supplement standardized testing?
Need to see how errors are made in real interaction or look at semantic and pragmatic areas

- criterion referenced don't compare child to norm, they show whether or not a child is competent with a particular form or function
How does fast mapping affect assessment of vocabulary skills?
Fast mapping - meaning of words is limited until child has additional experience with it, but they still produce it
- children's understanding of word meaning, even when they produce the word themselves, may be more limited than the adult's understanding of the meaning of the same word
- have the knowledge to produce the word but they don't fully understand it
How can word retrieval skills be assessed in a child with developing language?
Test batteries because word retrieval problems commonly coexist with reading deficits
-retrieval is not typically included in the assessment of the child with developing language
-but we can see if their expressive vocabulary test is worse than receptive measure
Why must receptive and expressive syntax be assessed separately?
Children commonly produce sentence forms such as agent-action-object constructions, even when they fail to perform correctly on comprehension tests of these same forms in settings where nonlinguistic cues have been removed. They may have an IDEA OF IT. Sensitivity vs. Specificity **We want more SENSITIVE tests. Test both b/c a problem with receptive dramatic difference between expressive. +1 SD diff 1 syndrome where it's opposite William's syndrome PRESENT POSITIVE-sensitive PRESENT NEGATIVE-False + ABSENT POSITIVE-False - ABSENT NEGATIVE-Specific
Discuss the assessment of contextualizado and decontextualized comprehension skills
Decontextualized - kick the ball when no ball is present
Contextualized - kick the ball when a ball is there
- most standardized tests used decontextualized methods
Describe 2 methods for non standardized assessment of decontextualized comprehension; of contextualized comprehension
Decontextualized - picture pointing, behavioral compliance, object manipulation and judgement
Show me the girl is jumping, show me how you kick
Why and how do we assess comprehension strategies?
Not standardized, but they remove most of the non linguistic context and require the child to understand the message from just the words and sentences
Ex: Simon says
Mommy feeds the baby
The baby feeds mommy
What is the role of speech sample analysis in assessing productive syntax and morphology?
spontaneous speech provides the most valid look at how a client uses words and sentences in natural situations, so its more sensitive than standardized tests for identifying preschoolers with clinical language delays true form of how a client produces language forms
Strategy for assessing vocab skills in kids and developing lang
Hiding game - tests spatial prepositions, hiding something where the clinician indicates
What situations, partners and materials are best for collecting a speech sample from a child with developing language?familiar! playing with dolls, natural things they enjoy give them measure of controlHow is MLU computed and for what purposes is it used? Advantages and disadvantages?Means of indexing syntactic development -MLU alone is never a good way to decide language development 1) segment speech into utterances 2) transcribe the sample, putting each utterance on a new line 3) identify first 50 fully intelligible utterances (eliminate unintelligible) 4) Count morphemes in each utterance 5) Add total morphemes, divide by total utterancesWhat is the purpose of using elicited production procedures in criterion referenced assessment?Get some evidence about forms that do not exist in a language sample Shy puppet activity for eliciting questionsGoal of pragmatic assessment for a child with developing languageUse criterion referenced or informal procedures - can tell us whether clients are stronger or weaker in pragmatic communication relative to their skills in other language area -identify pragmatic contexts in which new forms should be practiced Ex: observation of natural communication - rate interaction as appropriate or not appropriate