SPA 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pragmatics, Cognitive Flexibility, Sight Word
26 Sep 2020
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Just knowing a child"s diagnosis is not enough to determine intervention focus: there is too much variety in diagnoses. Influences will change how the symptoms: more concern on individual strengths/weakness over the diagnosis. Lecture: knowledge of different diagnostic groups, diagnostic label necessary to secure access to slp services and educational support. In order to be eligible in school: or insurance coverage, knowing the different etiological classifications provides hints about what areas in assessment or what areas might receive priority in intervention, asd you expect pragmatics will be impaired. It"s a developmental disability that individual: appears before 18. Individuals do not grow out of this disability. Intellectual functioning: general mental capacity, such as learning, reasoning, and problem solving. Iq test scores: 70 - 75 indicate limitations in intellectual functioning: more than 2 sd below mean. Iq score is not absolute inclusion of adaptive skills this allows borderline iqs to be consideres: slp"s was typically the 1st professional working with these kids.
