Introduction to Children with Language Disorders, a language disorder is a “deviation in the usual rate and/or sequence with which specific language skills emerge” (Reed, 2011, p. 81). X is a nine-year-old boy who was diagnosed with an expressive- receptive language disorder. The patient attends speech therapy routinely at John Keys Speech and Hearing Clinic, and is currently making progress towards his set goals. Throughout X’s nine years of life, he has faced many obstacles. While in gestation, his mother had poor prenatal health causing the patient to be born premature. X said his first word at the young age of 9 months. He was later diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His…
experience when living with expressive language disorder. When it comes to expressive language disorder, all of your thoughts and ideas are right there in your head, but the words just won’t come together when you try to say them. Before you can determine if expressive language disorder as a diagnosis, it is important to consider what it exactly is, the signs, the types, and treatments. To begin with, according to BetterHealthChannel, “expressive language disorder is an impairment where a child…
Learning disabilities are a group of learning disorders characterized by inadequate development of specific academic, language and speech skills. Learning disorders are ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), dyslexia, dyscalculia, and communication disorders. ADHD is a behavior disorder characterized by excessive inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. Inattention behaviors are they are easily distracted from tasks and activities, don’t pay attention to instructions and details,…
In addition to an Expressive/ Receptive Language Disorder, Amanda is also presenting with a Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), now commonly referred to Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Her symptoms include hyperarousal to visual and auditory stimuli. A Diagnosis of SID entails problems associated with the interpretation of any form of sensory input. A Difficulty processing normal sensory stimuli can affect the normal development of children and with certain degrees of severity relate to…
the clinician will use to target Amanda’s specific language weakness are narratives and discourse. The client’s teacher main concerns were the areas of expressive language skills as well as limited vocabulary. The clinician will target narratives and discourse to increase the client’s expressive language skills. Research by McCabe and Bliss, supports that children should have the ability to provide with a minimum of two events in a narrative. The clinician can guide the client to create a…
100 that the true score is between 31 and 45. Danny score is ranked at 0.1 percentile which means that Danny scored as well or better than 0.1 of the examinees his age. The second test Danny was given was the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS). The OWLS is an assessment of receptive and expressive (oral and written) language for children and adults 3 to 21 years old. The OWLS consist of three scales listening comprehension, oral expression, and written expression. It assesses not only…
Some of the things I have learned from my girl scout has helped me when he has a meltdown. At home, I have four children. The oldest developed anxiety due to ptsd from date rape. She also has trichotillomania. My oldest boy has reactive attachment disorder, as well as schizoaffective disorder. Combine all of this with attention deficit disorder and oppositional defiance and it makes for an interesting life. My youngest has dislexia and attention deficit hyperactiviy disorder. My youngest…
Primary diagnosis: Speech and language delays. Secondary diagnosis: Intellectual disability. The claimant was a 7 year and 11 month old boy. Alleged disability: learning disability, could not speak understandable words, could not tie his shoes, could not wipe himself after using the toilet, and hyperactivity. His mother reported that he was unable to cut geometric shapes with scissors, unlock a key lock, could not follow simple directions, and did not say his last name when asked for his…
being complex sentences, it indicated that his level of sentence complexity was about 4 years below chronological age expectations, which also reduced his ability to express complex thoughts and ideas (Vasilyeva, Waterfall, & Huttenlocher, 2008). Hence, his story was significantly shorter than expected for his age. His retell also had 6 disruptions due to several instances of word finding difficulties, which could imply a possibility of an expressive language…
Researchers and clinicians use a number of measures to analyze preschoolers’ language development. Researchers primarily use two methods in order to gain this information. The first kind is a language sample analysis. While similar to the measurements used on toddlers, there are more options available to study the development of preschoolers. To study semantics, researchers look at the “total number of words” (TNW), number of different words (NDW), and the type token ratio (TTR)”. In order to…