Assessment Flashcards
(22 cards)
Supportive strategies
Respond to a child’s communcation attempts by engaging in activities of high interest to the child within the context of every day routines and activities
Enabling strategies
Using direct cues and prompts within the context of an ongoing activity. Can be divided into responsive and directive techniques
Directive techniques
Adult directed teaching strategies that facilitate the adult’s desired response
How should you use directive techniques?
As naturally as possible and within the context of a typical routine or play activity
Responsive techniques
Following the child’s lead, the adult responds to what the child says, reiforcing their attempts to communicate
List some responsive techniques
Self talk, parallel talk, following the child’s lead, contingent imitation, natural consequences, providing meaningful feedback, and expansions
List some directive techniques
Cueing, prompts, supplementing oral language with gestures, modeling the desired response, pausing after commands, hand-over-hand
What are some guidelines for interacting with young children?
Be animated, be positive, stay at eye level, listen, take turns, know when to stop, provide rich input, always respond, speak in short phrases, speak slowly, pause between words, keep it simple, vary your language, focus on one topic, gesture, imit questions
Self talk
Adult describes an action they are currently doing
Parallel talk
The adult describes an action the child is currently doing as if they are doing it, providing self talk for the child
Following the childs lead
Commenting on what the child shows interest in, saying what they would say to elicit the child’s current behavior
Expansions
Expanding a child’s communicative behavior with models more complicated than the child’s behavior
Contingent imitation
The adult imitates a child’s behavior and then the child imitates the adult’s imitation
Natural consequences
Responding with natural consequences, fulfilling the childs requests
Providing meaningful feedback
Labeling, describing, responding to a request
Why should you communicate at eye level?
It enables the child to read facial expressions, see articulatory placementj
What is providing rich input?
Varying activities, using comprehensible language, educational play, and meaningful interactions. Talking about everything happening around the child
Why should you respond to everything a child says?
It reinforces their efforts, provides feedback, and gives the adult a chance to model a longer phrase
Why speak in short sentences?
Children on the verge of speaking understand one to two word phrases best. Longer utterances are harder to remember. Once single words begin, speak in 2-5 word phrases.
Why repeat words in varying language?
Repetition helps with language processing and retention. Comprehension improves when the words represent something visual and interesting in the environment.
Prelinguistic skills
joint attention, communicative intent (clapping, reaching, gimme fingers, nodding, waving, patting, tapping for attention) imitating, object permanence, cause and effect, problem solving, responds to name, stops when hearing no, waves bye bye, identify body parts, vocalizes for different reasons, uses gestures, says mama or dada
