Lang. Dev. Exam 4 Flashcards
American society for the positive care of children, 2015.
Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members.
Sheehan Stanford Child Neurology: abused babies
25% die
Up to 50% survive with significant neurological defects
Neglect
The failure to provide for a child’s basic needs
Can be physical, emotional, or educational
Children who experience physical neglect often experience this because…
Their parents are unable to provide what they need-they are poor.
May be inappropriately left home alone
Physically neglected children often have…
Trouble doing well in school-basic needs are not met
Hungry, cold, lice
Difficulty concentrating
A majority of the perpetrators of child abuse are…
Parents (78.5%)
Children who have experienced severe emotional neglect may…
Be lethargic and apathetic
Demonstrate learned helplessness
Have cognitive problems including difficulty with impulse control and problem solving skills.
Physical and sexual abuse of individuals with disabilities…
Runs 3-4 times higher than abuse in the general population
Disabled girls especially vulnerable targets; often, family members abuse them.
If disabled children report abuse, they often aren’t seen as credible because…
They can’t describe details correctly
SLPs ensure that interviews are conducted at the child’s appropriate…
Cognitive and linguistic levels
Moms of babies with craniofacial anomalies may be…
Less attached to and nurturing of their infants.
Decreased attachment increases risk of abuse and neglect.
This is one reason we need to provide medical care for these babies as early as possible.
Children with disabilities put a lot more stress on their caregivers, and when caregivers are stressed and have no respite…
They are more likely to neglect and abuse their children.
Caregivers may…
Not see the light at the end of the tunnel like parents of typically developing children.
Be stressed because typical child experiences aren’t available.
Special needs children and parents are isolated.
Children who have been abused and or neglected…
Very quiet
Have difficulties with expressive language
Lesser conversational skills
Less likely than peers to discuss info or volunteer.
Do more poorly in school, underperform academically.
More behavioral problems
A&N children’s specific difficulties with pragmatics
Less descriptive utterances
Lang. Is used to get things done with little social affect.
Poor conversational skills overall.
Inability to discuss feelings.
Lack of ability to take perspective of a conversational partner.
Alexithymia
Alexithymia
Absence of words for emotions
Mothers who neglect or abuse babies may…
Punish normal risk taking adventurous behavior
Not interact
Be unresponsive when babies initiate, so babies learn to be passive.
Shaken baby syndrome may occur, so we must…
Stress to caregivers that they should never shake a baby
This causes lifetime cognitive and linguistic damage
Sheehan Stanford Neurology: shaken baby.
Problem: when caregiver is done shaking, they usually slam the baby hard against a surface-wall, tables…
Traumatic brain injury
The highest rate of child abuse is experienced by children between…
Birth and 3 years of age
In assessment of A&N children, we especially need to focus on evaluating…
Overall expressive language skills
Pragmatic skills
Narrative skills
Vocabulary
Intervention should involve…
Encouraging verbal expression, especially description.
Providing a warm, nurturing environment with clear rules and boundaries.
Increasing the child’s ability to accurately describe and appropriately express emotions (using your words not hitting and kicking)
Intervention may especially need to involve…
Playing
Providing dolls, action figures, art supplies, etc.
As the child is playing or drawing, describe their actions or drawings.
Culturally and linguistically diverse families may…
Especially need direct instruction about American child abuse laws.
