LING 3P90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Language Disorder, Language Delay, Speech-Language Pathology

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3P90
• Professor: Lynn Dempsey

Document Summary

If there is no gains outside of the clinic room, no impact. Make a child a better communicator in everyday life. Purposes of intervention: change or eliminate the underlying problem. The child becomes a normal language learner and no treatment is used: change the disorder. Making a difference, but deficits may remain the same depending on the disorder: teach compensatory strategies. An acc device, using strategies for word finding: change the child"s environment. Tends be in conjunction with the last 3. Modifying or changing the environment; ie. putting up pictures. Parent training program with early language delay, how to better stimulate. Changing the disorder (purpose #2) the child: facilitation: rate of language learning is accelerated. The child would achieve the milestone anyways. Not getting to a higher level, but getting there faster. A little closer to his peers and to make it easier in social life and school.