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Grammar

Grammar is a set of rules and examples that encompass syntax and word structures (morphology).

Reference links

  • Using Grammar - Kid Sense Child Development 1
    childdevelopment.com.au     Author: Kid Sense - If your child struggles to get a message across or is frequently misunderstood, they may require assistance from a speech pathologist to address grammar issues.

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  • Given an object, picture, or story, Faustina will say a complete phoneme using superlatives (i.e., “That is the best cookie.”) with 90% accuracy in 3 out of 4 opportunities over 4 therapy sessions to demonstrate grammar, syntax, and vocabulary skills. 3
  • Arturo will use regular plural nouns with decreasing prompts with 90% accuracy in 3 consecutive sessions to improve grammar production and expressive language. 3
  • Shawn will listen to a series of words and then formulate the words into a complete, semantically and grammatically correct statement or question independently with 80% accuracy across 3 consecutive therapy sessions to improve expressive language skills. 4
  • Palmer will identify and use developmentally appropriate syntax and morphology across different activities (e.g. when defining & using vocabulary, in response to questions), in structured & unstructured phoneme) with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to demonstrate expressive language skills such as grammar, morphology, and syntax. 4
  • Royce will complete grammatically correct sentences with regular and irregular past tense verbs to improve grammar in expressive output with fading prompts with 90% accuracy across 3 therapy sessions. 5
  • Yvette will show correct use of grammatical/morphological forms (e.g., for present progressive –ing, past tense-ed, 3rd person singular –s, plural –s, possessive –s, auxiliary verbs, noun-verb agreement, articles, objective, subjective and possessive pronouns) with accuracy at or above 90% given minimal assistance across 3 sessions to improve upon expressive language skills. 3
  • Justin will formulate complete, semantically and grammatically correct spoken phonemes of increasing length and complexity using given words and contextual constraints imposed by illustrations with 80% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions as measured by clinician observation and data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 2
  • Bruce will understand and use age-appropriate morphological and syntactic markers including but not limited to pronouns, prepositions, comparatives/superlatives, and word-ordering, first through imitation, then spontaneously in words, phrases, and sentence, with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to improve language comprehension and expression. 4
  • Randy will form grammatically accurate, age-appropriate phonemes given a word or picture with 90% accuracy to demonstrate expressive language skills such as syntax, grammar, and morphology over 5 therapy sessions. 2
  • Ignacio will correctly use pronouns during spontaneous conversation with 90% accuracy over 3 consecutive sessions to increase grammatically correct utterances. 2
  • Josette will demonstrate understanding of pronouns (i.e. objective- you, him, her, me, us, them; subjective- I, you, he, she, it, we, they; possessive- mine, his, hers, ours, theirs) first receptively, then expressively, with 80% accuracy in 4/5 consecutive therapy sessions as measured by data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 5
  • Shirleen will use age-appropriate morphology (i.e., plurals, attributes, possessives, helping verbs) to describe photos and create grammatically correct phonemes with 80% accuracy in 4/4 consecutive therapy sessions as measured by clinician data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 5
  • Given decreasing cues, Elisha will listen to a statement or question and identify if the grammatical patterns used in the phoneme are correct or incorrect and will provide the correct word to repair those utterances identified as ‘incorrect’ with 90% accuracy over 3 consecutive sessions to improve overall expressive and receptive language skills. 2
  • Cassie will use the present progressive -ing form beginning with moderate verbal and visual cues, then fading cues with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to improve overall expressive and receptive language skills. 3
  • During a 4 month therapy period, Portia will use the following morphological markers, first through imitation, then spontaneously: possessive -s, auxiliary verbs, plural –s, present progressive –ing, “wh” questions (who, what, where), and negation (no, not) with 80% accuracy over 4 consecutive sessions to improve overall expressive and receptive language skills. 3
  • Keiko will answer questions about classroom curriculum-relevant materials (e.g. vocabulary, concepts, passages, and story materials) using developmentally appropriate syntax and morphology with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive therapy sessions as measured by clinician data and observation to increase language and grammatical skills. 2
  • When given decreasing cues, Earlie will retell a short story using at least 4 complete sentences with appropriate grammar, details, and sequence in 90% accuracyacross 4 consecutive sessions to improve expressive and receptive language skills. 3
  • Maxima will receptively identify and expressively use correct pronouns, prepositions, superlatives, and future, present and past tense verbs with fading prompts to create grammatically correct sentences with 90% accuracy across 3 sessions. 6
  • Norris will increase his/her expressive vocabulary by labeling 80% of targeted nouns, verbs, and modifiers across 3 sessions as measured by clinician observation. 4

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