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Assessment of Language. Speech and Language: What's the difference???. Related but not the same Speech is the physical process of making the sounds and sound combinations of a language. Language is the system according to which people agree to talk about or represent environmental events.
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Speech and Language: What's the difference??? • Related but not the same • Speech is the physical process of making the sounds and sound combinations of a language. • Language is the system according to which people agree to talk about or represent environmental events. • Consists of words and word combinations
Language Cont. • Multiple Domains • Nonverbal language • Oral language • Written language • Pragmatic language • Phonology • audiology
Assessments • CELF(Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals) • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test • Expressive Vocabulary Test • TOPS/TOPPL • The Listening Test • Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
Categories Assessed • Recalling sentences • Formulated sentences • Word classes: receptive and expressive • Word definitions • Understanding paragraphs • Sentence assembly • Semantic relationships
Categories cont. • Number repetition • Familiar sequences
A child with a speech disorder may have trouble with the following: • Producing sounds properly • Speaking in a normal flow • Speaking with normal rhythm • Using his or her voice in an effective way
A child with a language disorder may exhibit: • Difficulty in comprehending questions and following commands (receptive language) • Difficulty in communicating ideas and thoughts (expressive language)
Implications • Student may miss critical pieces of knowledge, connect incorrect bits or information in memory, or have an ineffective means of showing others all that he or she knows. • Lower levels of achievement • Feelings of confusion, helplessness and frustration
Implications cont. • “Communication skills are the heart of the education experience.” • Examples???? • How would this specifically effect your students?