Test of language competence expanded edition tlc expanded

Thanks again. It isn't fishy She has no problem expressing herelf as long as it is about what she wants to talk about If she is a chatterbox Is she ADD-Inattentive by chance? Due to time constraints placed on the SLP at the time these scores were presented to us, we really weren't given much commentary on them. The two things I remember her making a point about were that: 1 She seldom sees a 14 on oral expression; and 2 My daughter appeared to be doing her best work throughout testing, but her processing time was noted to be unusually long to the extreme, it sounded like.

For me, having no experience with "typical" results on these subtests, the range from 16th to 91st percentile scores does seem huge! But I don't know the test as you do, so I'll defer to your expertise on that issue! I just don't want to miss a red flag along the way, if there's one waving in my face. As for her being a "chatterbox," that's tricky.

She can be, but she isn't often. She does use it as an avoidance tactic occasionally, or gets that way once in awhile when she's especially pumped up about something.

She does get into some trouble school for "hypersocializing" inappropriate times. When she's talking to avoid a task, she doesn't stay on topic - she jabbers about anything she can come up with! When it's an issue she's interested in, she focuses, although she isn't immune to the occasional tangent.

True for many of us, I suppose. As for whether she gets the gist of things when listening to others talk, she usually does, and yes, she can relay it back to someone else.

Although, sometimes when in the listening role it seems like she's effectively "checked out" for a period of time. Teachers complain alot of this. I've actually found myself looking up petit mal or "absence seizures" before. I've also wondered about the secondary subprofiles of auditory processing disorders, after reading about them recently, because many of her difficulties parallel those that are described. She hasn't been dx'd as ADD-Inattentive, but she fits that profile awfully well, in alot of ways Any particular reason that came to mind?

I have been working with a boy who is dimes to donuts ADHD-he can't focus What I have done is to if I am singing a song I stop until he realizes I am trying to get him to refocus.. He looks at me Today I did some gratis tutoring for about 5 hours withgraduate studies I tutored her last year. She called me in a panic because she had a 10 page lit review due on Monday and she hadn't a clue on how to organize her papers, make an outline or how to write it.

So while we were working together she was talking to me about everything under the sun but she couldn't focus on what I was there to help her with. She would play with her dog, and the darndest thing happened when I was talking with her Her brain just went elsewhere When I called her on it She said.. I looked at her and said She said She told me about being in a math class and watching the clock trying to make the time go by faster every 2 minutes She is ADD and it is interferring in her life Been there seen that and please do something to help her master her focus before it is too late Personally, I refuse to accept this.

It is a very damaging habit to build. And the tutor being the hired entertainer for the hour would just feed the problem more. As soon as I see the eyes on the ceiling or hear the humming or see the finger fidgets, I stop. When the kid looks to see what is going on, I point at the paper and start again. If necessary I say "ahem! After a few weeks we usually get focus most of the time. Since I am seeing this moving down to ages where it was very rare before, I'm thinking it has to do with teaching or non-teaching strategies being used in the schools.

It is an internal motivational timing thing I would get so MAD inside because I thought It was her way of protecting herself when she got overloaded Not to mention she she did this when she was a child It is a really hard thing to control when you don't realize your tuning out isn't what other people do on a day to day basis It is really hard to explain this "tuning out" to parents about their kids until you actually go through it.

The child or adult for that matter can't keep their monitor turned on to focus on things, they end up tuning out into their own mind for entertainment to endure whatever is overloading them at the moment. Perhaps it would benefit parents who are in denial about their kids attentional issues to see a video tape of a typical tutoring session and see the "tuning out phenomenon" The tuning out behavior is so blatant and I too refuse to be an expensive babysitter for an hour but I want to help the child and help the parents meet their child's needs and not make the same mistakes I made Now she has been on meds for 4 and she tells high school students I want to be productive and help the child learn to read and focus and I am not boring by a long shot.

If I can't get them to focus through activities which entail learning to focus, then I can't teach them to read or master the subjects that are most difficult for them. In that case, I refer the parent and child to seek the counsel of a medical doctor regarding proper diet, and medications to help them develop internal motivation and master their executive functioning skills so I can remediate.

However, when it comes time to bring the right textbook home, remember which day an assignment is due, or recollect factual information presented in a lecture, it's another story! Is this simply a matter of the "fun stuff" not overloading her? I don't know If you go thru a fast-food drive-thru, they're shoving toys through your window.

You go to a restaurant, and the kids are placated with their own placemat, crayons, and a balloon. Some restaurants have play areas or elaborate systems of child-entertainment fun centers.

I'm sure this does nothing to harm the average kid, but I have to wonder if, given a certain personality or predisposition, it takes a kid who might otherwise have considered plain ol' LEARNING to be fun, and turns them into a little cater-to-me monster? I like some of the strategies you use during tutoring. I have had to do similar things during homework sessions here at home, and it can be trying.

As for ADD, we haven't ruled out the idea entirely, but there are some complicating family history factors and previous reactions to med. Hallett, T. Linguistic competence in paediatric closed head injury. Pediatr Rehabil. Metaphoric comprehension in adolescents with traumatic brain injury and in adolescents with language learning disability.

Lang Speech Hear Ser Sch. The four tests that can be either administered individually or as a battery to obtain information regarding an individual's language skills include:? Making Inferences? Conversation Skills? Multiple Meanings? Figurative Language Administration time: 45 minutes.