Week 2 Re-cap

What...
As a class, we discussed the definition of language and the parts of language. We also discussed language disorders. The material covered in class was over chapters 1-2 of Teaching Students with Language and Communication Disorders by S. Jay Kruder. The class discussion took place on January 24, 2012.

Why...
This was a nice review for me. As an ESL teacher, I work with language development everyday. The chapters covered the definition of language, parts of language and language disorders. Even though I am familiar with the parts of language, it was new for me to see what types of language disorders correspond to the parts of language. I also liked review parts of communciation. It is sometimes easy to forget everything that communication actually entails. It is much much more complicated than only the words that we produce.

Reaction...
For this class session, I really enjoyed watching people finish my learning activity shown above. It helped me learn the content better by helping others complete the game. I feel when you have to teach something, you learn it. The manipulatives also help seeing information in a different way. Notes and PowerPoint are a good start, but I think making an activity based on the notes and PowerPoints helps you better understand the concept and figure out the small issue that you had understanding the reading.

Learned...
4 Elements of Communication
~Sender of the mesage
~Receiver of the message
~Shared intent
~Shared means

5 Parts of Language
~Phonology
~Morphology
~Syntax
~Semantics
~Pragmatics

Language disorder--impaired comprehension and/or other symbols systems
~Receptive language disorders
~Expressive Language disorders

*Problems with language form--phonology, syntax, or morphology related disorders
*Problems with content of language--semantics related disorders
*Problems with function of langauge--pragmatics related disorders
*Students may have any combination of language disorders

Goal Setting...
I need to look up web sites that characterize what children are more likely to have communication disorders and what type of communication disorders. I feel as if this would make the lesson very practical when I need to help evaluate a student.