SPA 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Specific Language Impairment, Autism Spectrum, Language-Learning Aptitude
29 Apr 2020
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Identify instructional modifications to enhance student"s academic success. Intervention: school age children: peer mediated intervention intervention that focuses on a student"s social communication, to facilitate social communication, slps follow one of three basic paradigms, social intervention with peers. Involves engaging children in opportunities to role play social scripts. Increase a student"s ability to take another"s perspective: help students use and define emotion words to encourage understanding of others" emotions, practice social routines, during role-play, then in everyday situations, understand hidden meanings. Diagnosing a learning disability: traditional method, diagnosis is established through a battery of tests called a psycho-educational evaluation. Types of ld: types, language-learning disability (specific language impairment, dyslexia (specific reading disability, dysgraphia (writing disability, dyscalculia (math disability, dyspraxia (motor disability, nonverbal learning disability, language learning. Attention deficit / hyperactivity: adhd, neurobiological behavioral disorder characterized by chronic and developmentally inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsivity, and in some cases, hyperactivity that get in the way of daily life or typical development.
