Personalized Early AAC Intervention to Build Language and Literacy Skills: A Case Study of a 3-Year-Old With Complex Communication Needs
This article provides detailed documentation of personalized AAC intervention over a 6-month period for a 3-year-old girl with developmental delay and complex communication needs. The article describes (1) personalization of multimodal AAC supports to provide this child with the tools to communicate; (2) personalized intervention to build semantic and morphosyntactic skills; and (3) personalized instruction in literacy skills (i.e., letter sound correspondences, sound blending, decoding, sight word recognition, reading simple stories, reading comprehension, and encoding skills). Specific goals, instructional materials, and...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Personalization of Language Intervention for Children and Adults With Complex Communication Needs
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Culturally Responsive Language and Literacy Instruction With Native American Children
Many American Indian education leaders advocate for the need to combine evidence-based reading instruction with cultural-based educational practices. In the broader education literature, education philosophers propose analogous models such as culturally responsive teaching to meet the educational realities of diverse students. Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Instruction (CRELI) was a project funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs to train graduate scholars in speech–language pathology to work with American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The grant scholars and staff of CRELI worked with two early ...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Native American Caregivers' Developmental Priorities for Young Children: Implications for Intervention
Native American tribes and families are highly pluralistic in their ideologies, beliefs, traditions, and values. Very little research has described the parenting and child-rearing beliefs of Native American caregivers. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of Native American caregivers' developmental priorities and preferences regarding their young children's development. Participants included 21 Native American caregivers from a reservation in the Mountain West region of the United States. Ethnographic interviewing techniques described by C. E. Westby (1990) were used to collect caregiver perspectives. Th...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Production of Narratives by At-Risk American Indian Children in the Midwest
The narratives of two groups of 28 American Indian children attending a Midwestern Bureau of Indian Affairs school (16 with a mean age of 5;10 years, and 12 with a mean age of 7;8 years) were examined in three contexts: retell, fictional with sequence pictures, and fictional with one picture. The narratives were examined in terms of microstructure (e.g., total number of utterances, total number of words, total number of communication units, and mean length of utterance in words and morphemes), macrostructure, and evaluative elements, which are used by speakers to link events, comment on events and characters, and inform th...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Navajo: A Dynamic Assessment Clinical Tutorial
Standardized norm-referenced language assessments are used to identify developmental language disorder (DLD) in bicultural Navajo children. However, these assessments do not include normative data for Navajo children, the majority of whom are exposed to both Navajo and English, and consequently the assessments may not reflect their true language abilities. The purpose of this clinical tutorial is to provide background and alternative assessment information to help practitioners accurately identify Navajo children with and without DLD. In particular, the use of dynamic assessment, a test–teach–retest method, has shown p...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Enhancing Language Services to Native American Children: A Look From the Inside
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Making Sense of Right Hemisphere Discourse Using RHDBank
Conclusions:
RHDBank is a shared database of resources that can facilitate educational and research efforts to address the gaps in knowledge about RHD communication and improve the clinical management of individuals with RHD. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Predicting Cognitive Impairment in Cerebrovascular Disease Using Spoken Discourse Production
Conclusion:
Spoken discourse appears to be a sensitive measure for detecting cognitive impairment in CVD with measures of productivity, information content, and information efficiency heavily weighted in the final algorithm. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Narrative Discourse Intervention After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Conclusions:
Although all studies reported gains on some measures for treated narratives following intervention, there were mixed results for effect generalization and/or maintenance. The INCOG guidelines recommend that interventions after TBI should be contextualized and involve personally relevant materials, and this was not evident in the reviewed intervention approaches. Directions are suggested for clinical practice and future research in treating narratives. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Augmenting Communicative Environments for People With Acquired Neurogenic Disorders: Exploring Situated Discourse Analysis
This theoretical review article describes situated discourse analysis (SDA) and explores its implications for communication sciences and disorders. Drawing on situated theories of cognition and communication, SDA aims to understand real-time communicative processes of people engaging in complex sociocultural activities in specific sociomaterial environments. For SDA, discourse points first to the multimodal processes, not the products, of communicative interactions people engage in, and recognizes that these processes are fundamentally complex, distributed, and emergent. The article begins by defining SDA and describing fo...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
