Case Study #3 - Manuela, a Bilingual child with a speech and language disorder

Read the attached case study through the assessment information. Outline your paper as follows: Introduction)

Overview of the child and a table of tests and test results (skip the intervention, you'll come up with your own ideas)

Through coordination (Veit, chapter 5) and the use of conjunctions, decide how best to target the expansion of MLUw (Mean Length of Utterance - words) with Manuela

For the purposes of this paper, your intervention will be in English only

Research (this is where evidence-based practice starts!)

Overview of coordination and conjunctions

Table of full listing of all the components of conjunctions

Research on the specific target within conjunctions

Action Step

How will you teach conjunctions to expand MLUw?

Include teaching ideas that will be fun for a child of this age and will be age appropriate. Use internet searches, textbooks, journal articles, professionals in the field, other sources that help you teach conjunctions.
Summary )

Restate the problem
Restate the solution
Suggest a sequence of steps
Resources
Manuela.pdf
Readings - The Syntax Handbook