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DEAP conference 14th March 2017 SLCN Advisory Teachers Communication and Interaction Team
Use of the Blank language levels for pupils with Autism
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Course aims
• To identify the communication needs of learners with autism
• To have an overview of language development using the Blank language levels
• To adapt adult talk according to the pupil’s language level
• To consider assessment and language support tools
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Links to AET training
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Task: Fill in the profile of challenges faced by an identified
pupil with Autism
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Background to the Blank
language levels
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What are the Blank levels?
• Based on the work of Blank, Rose and Berlin
• Looked at the language demands of teacher talk
• Graded according to complexity – 4 levels
• Pupil moves from concrete experience to abstract thinking
• Encourages the development of verbal reasoning
• Also called the ‘Language of learning’ scheme
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Blank language levels
single words phrases
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
factual sentences
inference
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A useful framework…..
• to assess a pupil’s language level
• to guide the planning of suitable language activities
• to develop staff confidence to work on language skills in the classroom
• to give professionals a common vocabulary
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Pupils will: • lose concentration • switch off • become frustrated • not learn • possibly misbehave
Unless we modify our language
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Task: number these sentences from easiest to hardest
Who was with you?
What could you do differently next time?
Find me something that is blue.
What happened on the playground?
What is this?
Why did you choose to do it that way?
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Language development: Blank level one
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Blank level one Naming
• What’s this?
• Where is the ….?
• Point to the …
• What are they doing?
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Think of word parts: Think of meaning:
How many syllables? It starts/ends with ..…. It rhymes with ..… How many words?
location /
where
category /
topic
parts /
aspects
appearance
texture /
feel
function
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Language and Autism (Blank 1) potential differences
• Shallow / partial understanding of words
• Difficulty with less visual aspects of meaning, e.g. function, use, location
• Better expressive than receptive vocabulary
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Language development: Blank level two
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Blank level two Describing
• Who is this?
• What is the girl doing?
• Where are they?
• How are the foods different?
• Tell me another kind of fruit… (categories)
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Early question words
what where who
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Basic concepts
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• Category names
• Sorting
• Name as many as you can in a category
• Same and different
• Odd one out
Semantic skills
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Language and Autism (Blank 2) potential differences
• Category understanding
• Perception
• Concepts
• Pronouns
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Language development: Blank level three
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Blank level three Retelling
• How did the bulb grow?
• What did you do?
• Explain how are these the same / similar?
• What does ‘sow’ mean?
• How did mum feel when you helped her?
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Blank level 3: factual sentence types
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Language and Autism (Blank 3) potential differences
• Echolalia
• Sentence intention
• Receptive understanding
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Language development: Blank level four
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Blank level four Inference
• Why did you act that way?
• What could /should he have done?
• How will the character feel when she finds out?
• What if….?
• What is your opinion ?
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Language and Autism (Blank 4) potential differences
• Understanding and justifying ‘why’?
• Inference
• Problem solving
• Points of view
• Conditional language – could, should, would, might
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Language development (Blank) Level One Single word
vocabulary • core nouns
• core verbs
Level Two Phrases • concepts
• who, what, where
• categories
• different
Level Three Factual sentences • range of sentence types
• similarities
• negatives
• characters
• definitions
• how and when
Level Four Inference • reasoning
• problem solving
• opinions
• why
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Task: number these sentences from easiest to hardest
Who was with you?
What could you do differently next time?
Find me something that is blue.
What happened on the playground?
What is this?
Why did you choose to do it that way?
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How would you adapt your language for a pupil working at:
Level one: single words
Level two: phrases
Level three: factual sentences?
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Supporting inference: moving from Blank level three to four
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Blank levels - assessment
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Oral comprehension programmes
http://readingformeaning.co.uk/materials/ Duff et al (2008) Reading with Vocabulary Intervention
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Work on figurative language
wave
Cold feet
You did a great job of tidying your room
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Possible questions: 1. Where are you? 2. Who else was/is with
you? 3. What are you doing? 4. What happened? What
did the others do? 5. What did you say?
Comic strip
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Possible questions: 1. What did you think when
you/they said that? 2. What did others think
when they/you said that?
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Facial expressions
Early inference skills
Main focus
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Scaling Activities from AET
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Blank language levels
Single words phrases
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
factual sentences
inference
magnetic
durable
iron Explain what happened in the experiment
Why do you think this happened?
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Profile task:
• Highlight the difficulties linked to language
• Label these in terms of Blank level 1-4
• Add appropriate intervention / support strategies
• How will you adapt your language?
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Thank you for coming…
Evaluations
Course flyers