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Ax for young children w lang delays, disorders (1) (Disorders of use…
Ax for young children w lang delays, disorders (1)
Disorders of content
What parents report:
over reliance on GAP verbs, vague lang (get that one), no diversity of vocab, over-generalisation, word finding difficulties
Formal Ax
Word finding vocab test (Renfrew Lang scales)
NO prompting allowed
Ages 3;0-8;6
Expressive: assess naming of 50 line drawn pictures, nouns
If type token ratio is small, use this test
Instructions: What's this? Do you know the name for this?
Scoring: DKP- Dunno picture, DKN: Dunno name (word finding difficulties)
Montgomery Ax of vocab acq (MAVA)
Ages 3;0-12;11
expressive, receptive
evaluates child's knowledge of basic (tier 1), high freq (tier 2), curriculum based (tier 3) words
Qualitative responses analyses can give ceiling, basal
Peabody picture
Vocab test (receptive)- Fourth Ed (PPVT-IV)
Ages 2;6-90 years old
Administration: 10-15 min
does not require spoken lang, reading or writing to respond
monitor progress using 2 parallel forms
Expressive vocab test 2nd ed (EVT-2)
Ages 2;6-90 years old
Administration: 10 to 20 min
monitor progress using 2 parallel forms
One word picture vocab test
Receptive 4th ed
Ages 2;0 to 80 years old
Administration: 20 min
Assess how well a person can match word that is heard to objects, actions, concepts presented in fulll-colour pictures (in MCQ format)
Expressive 4th ed
Ages 2;0 to 80 years old
Administration: 20 min
Assess naming of objects, actions, concepts presented in full-colour pictures
Bracken basic concept scale
Receptive 3rd ed
Expressive 3rd ed
Both are for 3;0 to 6;11, administration time 30-45min each
Both test concepts of colours, letters, numbers, counting, sizes, comparison, shapes, direction, position, self-social awareness, texture, quantity, time, sequence
Boehm 3 preschool
Probing Ax
Practice qns
Ages 3;0 to 5;11
Administration 20 to 30 min
Assess unds of 26 basic concepts relevant to preschool, early childhood curriculum. Early childhood teachers can also administer
English, Spanish
Informal Ax
point to objects in room, ask child to name them
ask child to describe objects
ask child to tell you the opposites
ask child to tell you what word means the same as
___
ask child what do words have in common eg. milk and water
ask child to name items in categories
Clinical tip
Need to make activities engaging when working w young children but DON'T LOSE FOCUS
Be sure to explain to parent what you're doing. Not just playing
Disorders of form
What parents report
Tense errors
Word order
Pronouns
Prepositions
Brown's 14 morphemes
Test of reception of grammar-2nd edition (TROG 2)
Zero anaphora: use of gap in phrase, clause. The box is in the cup and is blue
Ages 4;0-86;11
Administration: each instruction is tested 4 times in a block using diff test stimuli
MCQ test format
Should not be administered for 9 months
Receptive morphology, syntax (No expressive component)
Unds of 20 instructions: inflections, function words, word order
Renfrew Action Picture Test (RAPT)
Ages 3;0 to 8;0
Assesses grammatical structure eg. present, past, future tense verbs
Irregular forms of plural, past tense
Simple, complex sentence construction
Bus story test (Renfrew)
Ages 3;0 to 8;0
Scores for sentence length
Scores for subordinate clause
Look for complex sentences + compound words
Informal Ax
language samples- sentence type, brown's morphemes, MLU
following instructions of increasing length, complexity
Disorders of use
What parents report
No Dore's primitive speech acts
Difficulties w pragmatics
Pragmatic profile of everyday comm. skills in children
Age range is 0;9 to 10;0
Administration: 30 min
Not norm referenced-descriptive approach
4 sections
Comm. functions
Responses to comm.
Interaction, conversation
Contextual variation
Language use inventory
Ages 1;6 to 3;11
Administration: 20-30 min
Completed by parent, caregiver, but SLP scores
Standardised, norm referenced
Assesses
Requesting help
Sharing focus of attention
Asking, commenting about things, people
Guiding interactions with other people
Sharing humour
Talking about lang, words
Adapting comm. to perspectives of other ppl
Studies
Pesco & O Neil (2012)
348 children, parents had completed the LUI (1;6 to 3;11) at time of initial completion
Reassessed at 5;0-6;0 w standardised, norm-referenced lang measures (CELF-P, CCC-2) & parent report of dev. history
RED FLAG: Children who were over 2;0 and who scored in the lower percentiles on the LUI were more likely to have
underdeveloped
lang skills at 5;0-6;0
Children's comm. checklist- 2nd edition (CCC-2)
Ages 4;0 to 16;11
Descriptive, direct, informal, behaviour obsv (includes normative data)
Purpose: to determine potential existence of 1) lang impairment (10 scales: speech, syntax, semantics, coherence, inappropriate initiation, stereotyped lang, use of lang, non-verbal comm., social relations, interests) 2) Pragmatic impairment
3) ASD
Informal Ax
Responds to greetings: observe the child when they say 'Hi, how are you?' Eg. the puppet says hi
Make requests: ask the child to draw a picture but don't provide a pencil
Describe events: ask the child what he/she did in the morning
Take turns: count to ten eg. I say one, you say two
Eye contact: consider whether child has maintained age appropriate eye contact during Ax