The speech community is the group of individuals with whom a speaker typically communicates. For a young child, this generally includes his or her family, neighbors, and peers. Once the child enters school, the school community has a large influence since the child will spend a lot of his time there. Children adopt the dialect/speech patterns of their speech community.
Researchers recorded all interactions between caregivers and children, from age 7 months to 3 years old, in different socioeconomic classes for 1 hour per week. This study presented the findings and implications for clinicians, educators, and policy makers.
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An examination between second language exposure and morphosyntactic and semantic development in preschoolers.
This module applies the critical questions to Andrea’s narrative about Cinderella. Read More
While traditionally many SLPs practiced only the pull-out service delivery model, this has been changing in recent years and the expectation that school SLPs provide services using the push-in model is increasingly common. In New York City, Chancellor of the Depart of Education, Dennis Walcott called for a push-in model to be used with students receiving related services. When I started working at a middle school in Brooklyn, I did not have any previous experiences providing services by pushing in. At the school placement I had done in graduate school, the SLP I worked with used the pull-out model. When I asked around for advice, I was hearing that a lot of SLPs wanted to provide push-in therapy and wanted to go into the classrooms but most did not know how to do it effectively. Read More
A standard deviation (SD) is a quantity derived from the distribution of scores from a normative sample. The standard deviation is the average distance (or deviation) from the mean. Read More
The percentile rank of a score is percentage of total scores from the normative sample that were equal or lesser than the value of the score. It can be plotted on the bell curve of a normal distribution. Read More
The parent/primary caregiver interview is s necessary part of any quality evaluation. The interview is used to gain information used in several parts of the evaluation. Read More
Language sampling is an essential part of any speech and language evaluation and research has shown it to be less biased against culturally and linguistically diverse children than standardized tests. Information presented in the language sample will consist of utterances collected from the parent interview in critical question 9 as well as language elicited during the evaluation. Read More
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