Monica Gustafson

Monica Gustafson
Skill Areas: Syntax, Grammar
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Ages:
7 and up
Grades:
2 and up
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Product # 6019
See the Evidence-Based Practice statement on page 8.
About the Author
Monica Gustafson has been a speechlanguage pathologist in the St. JamesAssinoboia School Division in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada since 1977. Monica
is responsible for intervention to
elementary-aged students and provides
storytelling to children throughout the
division. She also writes a column for
the Winnipeg Parent Newsmagazine to promote public awareness of
speech and language. Monica is an author of numerous speech and
language programs, and No-Glamour Sentence Structure Interactive
Software is her third publication with LinguiSystems. She is also the
author of No-Glamour Sentence Structure and Quick-Make Artic
Activities.
Monica and her husband, Ron, live in Winnipeg. They have two
children, Kari and Erik. In her spare time, Monica enjoys reading,
traveling, and volunteering for the local high school football league
as a statistician.
Sentence Structures Included
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noun + verb
adjective + noun + verb
noun + verb + direct object
noun + passive verb + prepositional phrase
compound Subject + verb
noun + compound verb
noun + verb + adverb
noun + prepositional phrase + verb
noun + verb + adjective + direct object
noun + verb + infinitive/Infinitive phrase
noun + adjective clause + verb/(verb + direct object)
noun + verb + adjective + adverbial clause
noun + negative verb phrase
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Installation
Windows
Insert the CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. Click on Install to
install the program to your hard drive. If the autorun feature of your
CD-ROM drive is enabled, installation will begin automatically. Follow
the onscreen instructions to complete the installation. If installation
doesn’t begin automatically, follow these steps:
1. Double-click My Computer.
2. Double-click the CD-ROM icon.
3. Double-click Setup.exe.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
Macintosh
1. Double-click the CD-ROM icon.
2. Double-click Setup.exe.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
To use the program in any capacity other than the Quick Start mode,
it must be installed.
Note: If you experience audio problems on a PC when running the program directly from
the CD via the Quick Start option (without installing the program to your hard drive), view
the Troubleshooting section of the Readme file on the program CD to fix this problem.
Getting Started
This flexible program allows you to choose the percentage correct
goal and the specific items you wish to attempt in a session. You can
print a results summary at the completion of each student session and/
or the student’s individual sentence structure chart for record-keeping
needs. Although the program is very easy to use, this guide walks you
through the basics. You have two choices at the Title screen:
Log In – Click here to manage users for custom sessions. After
choosing or creating a user, you can continue a saved session or
set up a new record-keeping session based on several criteria in
the Setup screen.
Quick Start – Click here for an open-ended, non-record-keeping
session. All the items available in the program are randomized in this
feature.
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Log In
Add New User – Displays
a pop-up box where you
enter your student’s first
and last names. Click the
Add button in the pop-up
box, and your student will be
added to the list of Current
Users.
Remove User – Click a
name in the Current Users
list. Then click on the
Remove User button. Confirm your selection in the pop-up box to
delete the user from the Current Users list.
Choose User – Click a name in the Current Users list. Then click on
the Choose User button to move to the Options screen.
Options
New Session – Proceeds
to the Setup screen to set
parameters for the session.
Continue Saved Session –
Allows you to complete
a previously suspended
session.
Previous Session Results –
Displays results of the
student’s previous sessions.
Quick Session – Begins an
open-ended, non-record-keeping session that presents random items
from all sentence structures.
Change User – Lets you choose a different user from the Current
Users list.
Credits – Displays a list of people who worked on this program.
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Setup
Sentence Structure Chart –
Sentence structures are listed
in order of difficulty. Select
the individual items you wish
to attempt for a session. You
may choose any number or
combination of items, and
you may reattempt items as
often as you’d like. Each item
answered correctly will be
marked with a 3 and each
item answered incorrectly will be marked with an 2. (Note: You will find
a complete listing of sentences in the Help file.)
Goal Setting – Sets a percentage correct goal between 1 and 100%.
Volume – Sets the master volume.
Off/On Options – You may turn off the goal counter, the progress
counter, the text box audio, the sound effects and reinforcements, and
the option to quit the session in progress.
After setting your options, click Start Session to go to the first item
screen.
Items
The student clicks on See
Text to display the text boxes.
He must then click on the text
boxes to activate narration.
To complete the task, he
drags each text box and
releases it in the box below its
corresponding picture. Text
is automatically narrated again
when a box snaps into place
beneath a picture.
Once he has placed all of the text boxes, the student clicks the Check
button to find out if he sequenced the sentence correctly. After he
receives feedback, he clicks the Next button to move on.
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Results
When a student completes
the final item in a session, the
See Results button becomes
active. Click on it to see the
Results screen.
The information on the
Results screen is vital for
recording and documenting
initial assessments, progress
reports, and pretests/
posttests. This screen shows
these pieces of information:
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student’s name
date and time of the session
overall goal (as determined in the Setup screen)
final results (number of items correct/attempted and overall
percentage)
• individual skill area results
Press the Print button to open your computer’s print dialog box to
print the session results.
The results of a completed session are automatically saved. You can
retrieve these results later by restarting the program and choosing
a student’s name in the Current Users list. Then choose Previous
Session Results from the Options screen.
Quitting a Session in Progress – If you are unable to complete a
session, you can choose Quit from an Item screen and save the session.
You can finish the session later by choosing the student’s name from
the Current Users list and then selecting Continue Saved Session.
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Evidence-Based Practice
Students are unlikely to formulate and comprehend complex
syntax unless such linguistic forms are included in their experiences
and convey authentic, complex meanings (ASHA, 2001).
In contrast to spoken language, written language is a more
concrete, permanent modality for working on sentence structure
(ASHA, 2001).
Children with language disorders often struggle with expository
text and produce shorter and grammatically simpler sentences
(Nippold et al., 2007).
SLPs should scaffold their instruction of syntactic structures to
help students express complex thoughts coherently (Nippold
et al., 2007).
Technology is a proven, effective method of giving children
with learning disabilities opportunities to engage in basic drill
and practice, simulations, exploratory, or communication
activities that are matched to individual need and ability
(Hasselbring & Williams-Glaser, 2000).
References
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). (2001). Roles
and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists with respect
to reading and writing in children and adolescents [Guidelines].
Available from www.asha.org/policy
Hasselbring, T.S., & Williams-Glaser, C.H. (2000, Fall/Winter). Use
of computer technology to help students with special needs.
Children and Computer Technology, 10(2), 102-122.
Nippold, M.A., Mansfield, T.C., & Billow, J.L. (2007). Peer conflict
explanations in children, adolescents, and adults: Examining the
development of complex syntax. American Journal of SpeechLanguage Pathology, 16, 179-188.
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