Communication disorders/salient features/Cortez's language

Perseveration: is the inappropriate recurrence or uncontrolled repetition of a previously produced response—phoneme, word, syntactic structure, semantic feature, idea, and the like—in place of the correct target item.

Cortez's perseveration: I want to go see my father, see my father.

Perseveration can involve actions, thoughts, words, phrases and emotions. For example:

Continuing to talk on a topic after the conversation has moved on

Anxiety about an event which has passed or no longer a threat

Asking the same question over and over despite receiving an answer

Not being able to move on from feeling angry

Circumlocution: The use of unnecessarily wordy language, especially in being vague or evasive.

Cortez Circumlocution:" is is that stuff i took" that unnecessary staff i took" instead of just saying i took the wrong medecine.

Sequencing: A language sequencing problem is not being able to put information in the correct order. A child with a language sequencing problem might have trouble spelling individual words or misplacing syllables when pronouncing words. In a broader perspective, the child might also speak or write words in an illogical order. For example, a child might have trouble correctly ordering the days of the week or the months of the year. Also a child who does not know how to describe making a sandwitch, is supposed to have a sequencing problem.

Cortez sequencing problem: Cortez had difficulty ordering numbers, and multiplying them

Topic maintenance: Topic maintenance refers to the ability to keep to a single, or closely related, topic for multiple speaking turns in an interaction.

Cortez topic maintenance: talks about his classmates then switches to talk about his dad in jail.

Treatment:

improved

self-monitoring

to compensate

fo his repetition

Assessement: The SLP

gets a speech sample of

cortez who would

talk , and

perseverates.

The SLP

measures

How many times

Cortez

perseverates

in how

many words.

Assessement: The SLP gets a speech sample and counts

the numbers of

circumlocuted words.

Treatment: the SLP

gives word finding

activiites to Cortez

who would relate words to

certain topics using

concept mapping

Assessement: asking cortez

wh questions on how

to process something. or

how to describe something that requires a

chronological sequencing.

Treatment: Cortez will be

modeling on how to

put the holidays in order

in 10 out of 15 trails

Assessement: The Slp

will give Cortez

2 different topics

and get a speech

sample of his control

over the topic.

Treatment: Cortez might

be able to maintain

one topic, after the SLP models

and gives an illustraion

and example of how to

maintain focused

on one subject