EMT Review

Enhanced Milieu Teaching is...

• A way of teaching grammar and syntax in a classroom

• A naturalistic intervention for promoting language and communication in everyday contexts

• Another word for play therapy

• Not a language intervention approach for early language

Enhanced Milieu Teaching is most appropriate for...

• Children with an MLU between 1.0 and 3.5

• Children who are verbally imitative

• All of these are correct

• Children who have at least 10 productive words

Enhanced Milieu Teaching can be used with children who have less than 10 words, have cognitive delays, have other diagnoses such as autism, have severe disabilities, or use an AAC device

• Can only be used with children with the specified qualifications

• I don't know...

• No!

• Yes!

One of the most important parts of component #1 of EMT (environmental arrangement) is...

• Being the gatekeeper of the materials

• Having toys that do not have multiple parts

• Using toys that are easily accessed by the child

• Having all of the toys out for that session so the child knows what there is to play with

For component #3 of EMT (target-level language), we use language that is at the child's MLU for...

• All communications

• Half of all communications

• 1/3 of all communications

• 1/4 of all communications

With Enhanced Milieu Teaching, what has been found to be the most powerful component for increasing diversity of language?

• Parallel Talk

• Recasting

• Toy Talk

• Expansions

Which of these is NOT a type of time delay in Enhanced Milieu Teaching?

• Pause in routine

• Giving a visual choice

• Ignoring the child's communication attempts

• Giving an inadequate portion

I feel like I can explain Enhanced Milieu Teaching to a parent or caregiver if needed.

• Yes - no problem!

• Yes - if I had a script

• No - I'm completely confused

• What's Enhanced Milieu Teaching?