November 13, 2017

Perspective Pieces

November 13, 2017/ Meredith Poore Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP

Writing Measurable and Academically Relevant IEP Goals With 80% Accuracy Over Three Consecutive Trials
Comparing Methods for Assessing the English Grammatical Development of Spanish-Speaking English Learners
Using Experience Books to Foster the Narrative Skills of English Learners

The Informed SLP

"SLPs shouldn't be expected to dig through the research alone. It's simply inefficient."

– Meredith P. Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP

We're here to make knowing the research a WHOLE lot easier. ⠀
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Read our newest Preschool & School-Age research reviews at #linkinbio⠀
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We know that early gesture use is strongly related to language outcomes in toddlers. This study by O’Neill et al. found that, in fact, two-year-olds’ performance on standardized measures of gesture comprehension and use were correlated with expressive language skills at kindergarten entry. (😳)⠀
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Unfortunately, many of our traditional language assessments don’t dive deeply into this nonverbal form of communication. ⠀
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So how can an Early Intervention SLP measure early gesture use? ⠀
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Find out more about early gestures (👍👋👉)⁣⠀
with our Early Intervention review: "A case for the assessment of gestures" at #linkinbio⁣⠀
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On this research: O’Neill, H., Murphy, C., & Chiat, S. (2019). What our hands tell us: A two-year follow up investigating outcomes in subgroups of children with language delay. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. ⁣⠀
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Why, yes. ⠀
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Yes it is.⠀
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#ScientistsWeLove #HelpPlease #EBPslp⠀
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Read our Preschool & School-Age review at #linkinbio ⠀
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On this research: Eidsvåg, S. S., Plante, E., Oglivie, T., Privette, C., & Mailend, M.-L. (2019). Individual versus small group treatment of morphological errors for children with developmental language disorder. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.

😕 What's an SLP to do? 🤔⠀
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In this intervention study (vocabulary training using interactive read-alouds) of 226 preschoolers, they found that:⠀
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➡ Kids who had a high initial level of vocabulary knowledge were able to increase their understanding and use of words through exposure alone.⠀
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➡ However, for kids with the weakest initial vocabulary levels, exposure and repetition wasn’t enough.⠀
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So what helps? ⠀
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💥Explicit instruction.💥⠀
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Their explicit intervention activities included: pictures, clear child-friendly definitions, and being encouraged to act out, use, and explain target words. They found that in order to go beyond breadth (the number of words that you know) to depth (how much you know about a word), explicit instruction of word meaning, and interactive activities that extend understanding beyond how the words are depicted in the book, helped. Ultimately, going long and going deep is key if we want to have a long-term impact on vocabulary development!⠀
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Learn more in our Early Intervention review: "Go long! Go deep! Storybook reading intervention 📖 to target breadth and depth of word knowledge in preschool-age children" at #linkinbio 👆⁣⠀
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On this research: Dickinson, D. K., Nesbitt, K. T., Collins, M. F., Hadley, E. B., Newman, K., Riveria, B. L., …Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Teaching for breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Learning from explicit and implicit instruction and the storybook texts. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. ⁣⠀
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"Babble Boot Camp" ⁣⁣⠀
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It's more than just a cute name—it's an approach you may want to use with infants & toddlers who are at risk for speech and language delays. (👏 We're talking about preventative treatment for kids with diagnoses that predict communication deficits, instead of waiting for delays to appear.👏)⠀
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In this study, SLPs provided 10 minutes of coaching per week to parents, beginning at two months of age on topics such as:⠀
➡ reinforcing babbling⠀
➡ joint book reading⠀
➡ and imitation.⠀
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Although this study only included one diagnosis and a small sample size, researchers were able to show some promising results!⠀
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Get more details in our Early Intervention review, "Babble Boot Camp: Yes, it's a thing." #linkinbio 👆⁣⁣⠀
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On this research: Peter, B., Potter, N., Davis, J., Donenfeld-Peled, I., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., . . . VanDam, M. (2019). Toward a paradigm shift from deficit-based to proactive speech and language treatment: Randomized pilot trial of the Babble Boot Camp in infants with classic galactosemia. F1000Research. ⁣⁣⠀
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#ebpslp #EIslp #languagetherapy #speechtherapy #SLP2B #earlyintervention #babble

Cultural understanding is more than just encouraging a multilingual environment. If you have kids of Mexican heritage on your caseload, this review and the jam-packed journal article are for you. 📚👌⁣⁣⠀
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Read our Early Intervention review: "Understanding Mexican culture to inform clinical practice" at #linkinbio 👆⁣⁣⠀
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On this research: Cycyk, L.M., & Hammer, C. (2019). Beliefs, values, and practices of Mexican immigrant families towards language and learning in toddlerhood: Setting the foundation for early childhood education. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. ⁣⁣⠀
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#preschoolslp #speechtherapy #schoolslp #speechpathology #bilingualslp #ebpslp

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You probably think you're training caregivers well... I mean, I thought so too before reading this study! 😬😬😬⁣⁣⠀
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But adults need more than verbal instruction and seeing you do it. Instead, they need live feedback and individualized coaching in order to implement strategies correctly and effectively (to change child outcomes!!) ⠀
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Improve your training skills with our Early Intervention review "'Try this at home' isn't enough." #linkinbio 👆⁣⁣⠀
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On this research: Penney, A. & Schwartz, I. (2018). Effects of coaching on the fidelity of parent implementation of reciprocal imitation training. Autism. ⁣⁣⠀
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#ebpSLP #SLP2B #ashaigers #EIslp #earlyintervention #autism #asd #latetalker

Do you ever leave evaluations with minimally verbal children feeling frustrated at the lack of useful data you were able to collect? 😔A standardized assessment might not give much information, but your observation narrative doesn't include as many objective, measurable details as you'd like.⁣⁣⠀
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The Communication Complexity Scale tackles this problem, with a coding scale meant to measure a range of communicative responses (from adjusting gaze all the way to verbal utterances!) during structured tasks. 📝⁣⁣⠀
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Find our Early Intervention/Preschool and School-Age Review "Measuring the earliest forms of communication" at #linkinbio⁣⁣⠀
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On this research: Thiemann-Bourque, K. S., Brady, N., & Hoffman, L. (2018). Application of the communication complexity scale in peer and adult assessment contexts for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. ⁣⁣⠀
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