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ANNE BONIDAN
MARK HOOPER
LESLIE GORDON
KRISTIN BALL
Did You Know?
language disorders
Drop out rates in students with communication disorders is 43% compared to 23% in non-
impaired students
4. Bad Speech Habits: When children are beginning to speak they say many
words incorrectly. If a child repeats an incorrect pattern long enough they
learn it as a habit.
Intermediate grades:
Word substitutions
Inadequate language processing and production that affects reading comprehension
and academic achievement
• Difficulty socializing
• Poor eye contact.
• Inappropriate comments and answers to questions.
• Difficulty expressing wants, needs, and ideas
• Asks questions that are off-topic
• Has poor sense of humour
• Takes things literally
• Speech rambles.
• Emotional difficulties
• Low frustration level
• Gullible (literal interpretation of figurative language and jokes).
• Classroom issues
• Poor retention of learning.
• Problems with organizing and planning.
• Difficulty with higher-level thinking skills (deduction, inferences)
Strengths
Instructional Accommodations
Visuals (ppt, ELMO, smartboard, written instruction)
Elicit language from students
Help students to monitor their own speech
Increase receptive language in the classroom
Listening buddies (rephrase information to each other)
Assessment Accommodations
Simulated real-life circumstances to increase language use
Choice in assignments
Reduce number of tasks
Tape record students for self-evaluation
Jigsaw