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Quick questions or quandaries?
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Announcements

• Papers are due at the start of class tomorrow.
• Papers can be completed individually, in pairs,
  or small group.
• There is a brief summary on Monday.
• Dont take the weekend off make sure you work
  on the final draft of your progressive essay.

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Todays Topic

• Intervention

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Small Group Activity

• Looking at goal-setting practices from the
  Communication Supports Checklist (see handout),
  rate your current school teams (each member
  within each group). Overall, what is needed to
  further support your students with intensive
  communication needs in these areas?

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Quick Write

• What intervention strategies could you use to
  support a communicator to transition between an
  iconic level to a symbolic level or, if it is
  more clear, from concrete symbolic to abstract
  symbolic?

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Theory Review

• Behaviorism operant conditioning
  (reinforcement), modeling imitation
  subsequent approximations
• Nativism Universal Grammar, Language Acquisition
  Device, focus on syntax, unconscious discovery
  of underlying rules.
• Language Socialization Development of language
  via social interactions AND development of
  cultural knowledge via development of language.

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Sociocultural Theory

• Language Socialization is related to (draws upon)
  this theory.
• This theory is based on work by Vygotsky in
  1920-1930s in former Soviet Union.
• Portions of his work were first translated into
  English in 1962 (Thought and Language).
• Work continues to expand on the early work of
  Vygotsky and other Soviet psychologists.

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Important Aspects of Sociocultural Theory

• Individual cognitive development occurs as a
  result of social processes cannot be separable
  from social interactions.
• Cognitive development is mediated by
  psychological tools, such as language and other
  means of communication (eye gaze, gestures,
  pictures, etc.).
• Joint productive activities are where learning
  takes place novices and experts working
  together toward a common goal.

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Aspects of Sociocultural Theory, cont.

• The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is that
  conceptual development that is just out of reach
  of a childs current independent performance, but
  which s/he can reach with assistance. It is the
  area of development that that we need to be
  targeting, as its not completely out of reach,
  but also, not redundant.

Example Being spotted in a physical activity,
not just practicing what you can already do or
trying something that way out of your reach.
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Videoclip 1 Zipporah (age 4)

• Make notes while viewing video
• In terms of Rowland and Schweigerts seven levels
  of communicative behavior, where is she
  operating?
• What learning situations appeared to be within
  her zone of proximal development?
• What mediators were used during the interactions?
• What communication goals would you suggest?

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Videoclip 2 Patrick (age 3)

• Make notes while viewing video
• In terms of Rowland and Schweigerts seven levels
  of communicative behavior, where is he operating?
• What teaching situations seem to relate to
• Zone of proximal development?
• Language socialization?

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Remember the five aspects of language

• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Phonology
• Pragmatics

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Videoclip 3 Burke (age 12)

• Make notes while viewing video
• In terms of Rowland and Schweigerts seven levels
  of communicative behavior, where is he operating?
• In which aspects of language development does
  Burke demonstrate competence?
• In which area(s) of language development will he
  need significant support?

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Comparing the three

• Do you feel that Patrick, Zipporah and Burke are
  effective communicators? Why or why not?
• Do you feel that Patrick, Zipporah and Burke are
  students who need intensive communication
  supports? Why or why not?

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If you were the teacher..

• What communication intervention strategies would
  you suggest for
• Patrick
• Zipporah
• Burke

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Looking ahead

• Small group presentations

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Please take a minute for the minute paper.