Speech and Language Disorders in Children Flashcards
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What is nonegocentrism?
a stage of pragmatic development when a child learns to take someone else’s perspective; ch can consider what the listener knows about the context of the situation
What is decentration?
step in pragmatic development when the ch moves from one-dimensional descriptions to descriptions that involve more than one attribute (a pencil is not only yellow, but also thin, long, made of wood, etc.)
What are the three levels of culture?
concrete, behavioral, and symbolic
What is the concrete level of culture?
surface level features (e.g. clothes, food, games, music, etc.); cultural “festivals” based on this level
What is the behavioral level of culture?
deals with social rules, language, communication; sign language is the foundation of deaf culture; proximity during conversation; behaviors which reflect our values, such as lang, gender roles (genderlects), family structure, and political affiliation
What is the symbolic level of culture?
the most abstract level (e.g. value system, customs, religion, beliefs, worldview)
What does professional cultural competence include? 3
1 awareness of one’s own values and ideas, 2 active attempts to understand the values and ideas of the families we serve (read about specific lang and cultural groups, team up with members of cultural groups who can act as interpreters and informants)
3 developing assessment and treatment protocols that address individual client needs
What is culture?
a dynamic set of values and beliefs that shape the behaviors of individuals
What is an ethnic group?
is a group of individuals who share a common language, heritage, religion, or nationality
How many ethnicities are in the the US? What are they?
5: European American, Black American, Latino American, Asian American, and Native American
What are cultural frameworks?
beliefs and values individuals within a group use to develop social interaction practices: includes the way lang is used; lang is used to pass down those beliefs and values that are shared by the group
What is cultural pluralism?
exists when people from different cultural groups all live together, while perserving and valuing their distinguishing characteristics
What is cultural sensitivity?
demonstrating an awareness that cultural practices are different from your own; not judging cultural practices that are different from your own
What are 3 challenges associate with multicultural sensitivity?
- client-therapists ethnic mismatch (over 50% of kids in US receiving services from SLP’s are minority; over 90% of SLP’s in US are white females)
- practitioners raised in this country operate from a European cultural framework , regardless of ethnicity; 3. a lg # of SLP are not properly trained to diagnose and treat children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
What is balanced bilingualism?
equal proficiency in two languages (rare)
What is nonbalanced bilingualism?
higher proficiency in one language than language than another (more common)
What is semiproficient and semibilingualism?
mixed input/output of languages; considered a language disorder
What is simultaneous acquisition
the development of both languages prior to the age of three
what is successive acquisition?
developm one lang (l1) usually at home, then a secondary lang (l2) usually at school after age 3
What is a dialect?
a mutually intelligible forms of a language associated w/ a particular region, social class, or ethnic group; variations of a particular language and are spoken by a large group of people who share ethnic, regional, or national similarities. There are ethnic and regional dialects, but all are variations of a parent language: Standard or Mainstream American English (SAE or MAE)
What assessment considerations w/ ethnic minority populations?
if the assessment is done in the native language; used dynamic assessments rather than normed references when possible; improved retest scores
Why do we assess phonology and syntax in the native language?
because these areas produce the most differences
Why do we use dynamic assessments rather than normed references?
evals ch ability to learn rather than output product;
What method do we use in dynamic assessments?
uses test, teach, retest approach