Teaching Receptive Language Flashcards
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define listener responding:
The ability to listen, process, and act on verbal and nonverbal stimuli
What does receptive behavior include?
- Nonverbally identifying objects, actions, people, locations
- Identifying objects based on function, features, or categories
- Performing actions
- Identifying relational terms
what are potential causes of failure to respond?
- Intellectual disabilities: difficulty understanding language
- Autism: Difficulty with joint attention and processing requests
- Both conditions: Struggles with language processing and attention
Why is intervention used for failure to respond?
Early identification and intervention are crucial to improve receptive language skills
what is the key goal of teaching receptive language skills?
build on prerequisite skills systematically to avoid gaps
what is receptive language fluency?
Learners must demonstrate skills across various contexts, not just in a limited number of opportunities
What are the prerequisite skills for listener responding?
- Motor imitation: Mimicking motor actions
- Echoics: repeating sounds/words to build language skills
- Match to sample: visual discrimination between objects/pictures
- Scanning: the ability to scan and select correct items in an array
What are early skills in receptive language?
- Attending to the speaker: Looking or attending to the speaker’s voice
- Responding to name: Crucial for social interaction and safety
- Auditory-Visual discrimination: Identifying items by matching auditory ques
- Motor actions: following verbal cues to perform actions
what are receptive language skills?
- Scanning: use an array of items, reinforce correct selections, gradually fade cues, and increase the complexity of the task
- Motor imitation & Echoics: Build both joint attention and help lay the foundation for expressive and receptive language
What are intermediate receptive language skills?
An increased ability to handle more complex tasks and larger arrays
what are advanced receptive language skills?
- Repertoire: must understand at least 1200 nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and pronouns
- Item selection: Must select from an array of 6 items based on 4 colors and 4 shapes
- Instruction following: Should follow 2-step directions involving prepositions
- Relative adjective & adverbs: should be able to select items based on comparisons (big/small)
- 3-step directions: need to follow directions with 3 actons
what are the steps of DTI for receptive language?
- SD: clear direction to the learner
- Response
- Consequence
- Intertrial Interval
what is errorless learning?
using prompts to ensure correct responses right from the start, avoiding mistakes
What are the prompt types?
- Verbal
- Visual
- Gestural
- Modeling
- Physical
what is most to least prompting
starting with more intrusive prompts and gradually reducing them
what are NET guidelines for receptive language?
- Identify specific targets for receptive language
- Choose activities that naturally elicit responses
- Provide reinforcers immediately following correct responses
- Gradually fade prompts as the learner becomes more independent
What are reinforcers in NET?
- Natural reinforcers: Activities themselves can serve as reinforcers
- Contrived reinforcers: External rewards (cookies after a chore)
what type of prompting is used in NET?
Most-to-least
