Saturday, January 31, 2015
Blog #2 - Analyzing a Language Sample
You have now learned how to determine a MLU based on a language sample of 3-5 utterances. Please share who you intend to use for your language sample, why you chose this person, and other things about this person's language that you may learn while taking this sample.
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I chose to do my language sample on a 3rd grade special needs student. This student is in our 3rd-5th grade multi-needs classroom. The reason I chose this students is because he speaks clearly and is very talkative.I think this student will be an excellent candidate for this project because he will be able to provide me with information that correlates with the topics in our class. This student currently receives services for both his speech and language issues. Some areas of concern are his articulation, sentence structure, and staying on topic. I do not have experience working with students with speech and language disabilities so I think will learn a lot from studying this student.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like an excellent choice.
DeleteI plan on conducting my language sample on a second grade boy that receives speech minutes as part of his IEP. His largest issue is a problem with articulation. He also inserts the word "actually" frequently. So much so that it detracts from what he is trying to say. He is a student I work with everyday, so I think that will help to get a true language sample without creating anxiety.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an excellent candidate for his assignment.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to do my language sample on of my students in my classroom. She has a speech IEP and has academic goals as well. Her goals consist of articulation and flow of language. She often speaks so quickly her words will get combined together. She is hard to understand to other teachers in the school. Overtime, I've been able to understand her. The students in my classroom can understand her as well and never made comments about her speech. She is very talkative and tells me stories all day long. She also has an extensive vocabulary for her age. She often uses past tense verbs incorrectly and pronounces the ending "-ed". For example, she will say "I haded to use the bathroom". I simply say "You had to use the bathroom." I'm interested to learn more and investigate her speech and language.
ReplyDeleteShe will definitely provide you with an interesting sample.
DeleteI'm not sure what happened to my original post that I put up yesterday so here it is again. The student I chose to take a language sample of is a kindergarten student that receives 15 minutes of RTI speech weekly. She is easy to understand but has difficulty with some sounds and blending. She has struggled academically but is very eager to learn and her effort is outstanding. She enjoys talking so getting a sample is not going to be a problem.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reposting Terri!
DeleteThe student I chose to do the MLU language sample with is in the FALP room. Students within this room are at a 1st - 3rd grade academic level. Although some do not have difficulty speaking, they typically speak using improper sentence structure and/or vocabulary. This specific student repeats a lot of words, and adds unneeded words while speaking. For example, if I were to ask him if he likes his art class, he would probably say something along the lines of, “I just a little bit, like a bit like it, like kind of like art class.” I have noticed this in the past, but have never looked closely into it. I am excited to learn more about his speech and language.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like an excellent choice.
DeleteI plan on doing my MLU with one of my own students in my classroom. All of my students have access to a full time speech pathologist in my classroom and all of my students have communication deficits. The particular student I have in mind is my third grade student. I am interested in doing this sample with him because even though he is fully verbal he has reduced vocabulary to produce functional communication, making it difficult for others to often understand what he may need or be asking for. I am hoping from doing my language sample with him, I may be able to dig deeper into his deficit and be able to help him progress more in my classroom and to produce more understandable functional communication.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get the additional information you need.
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