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Students with Learning Disabilities

Students with Learning Disabilities. Oral Communication: Speech and Language. Language versus Speech. Language Socially shared code for representing concepts through the use of symbols and rule-governed combination of those symbols Speech

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Students with Learning Disabilities

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  1. Students with Learning Disabilities Oral Communication: Speech and Language

  2. Language versus Speech • Language • Socially shared code for representing concepts through the use of symbols and rule-governed combination of those symbols • Speech • Actual mechanics or motor act of producing sounds in language

  3. Language Disorder • Student exhibits difficulty or delay in learning language or is learning language in a nontypical sequence • Aphasia • Acquired aphasia • Developmental or childhood aphasia • Specific language impairment • Language-learning disability

  4. Approaches to Language Disorders • Etiological-categorical approach • Convenient, label allows for services, guideline for intervention • Label is limiting, does not fit in all settings, difficult to relate to educational interventions • Descriptive-developmental approach • Identifies strengths and weaknesses • Does not clarify how to intervene, disregards important factors, ignores label requirement for placement in schools

  5. Language Components • Phonology • Morphology • Syntax • Semantics • Pragmatics

  6. Language Difficulties Across Groups • Preschool and kindergarten • Elementary • Secondary • Bilingual and culturally diverse students

  7. Language Skills Assessment • Formal Language Assessment • Screening tests • Diagnostic tests • Informal Language Assessment • Curriculum-based measurement

  8. Language Service Delivery Models • Pullout • Classroom-Based • Strategies-Based

  9. Language Teaching Strategies • Direct Instruction • Responsive Interaction Approach • Milieu Intervention • Modeling • Mand-model procedure • Time delay procedure • Incidental teaching procedure

  10. Increasing Language Comprehension and Production • Imitation and Modeling • Storytelling • Elaboration • Natural conversation • Well-planned environment

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