DLD exam quiz sets II

quizzes 7,8,9

Scientifically based research is defined by all of the following except: 

Independently published case studies

IDEA mandates that membership of the IEP team must include a parent and, whenever appropriate, the child with a disability. 

True

PICO stands for... 

• problem

• intervention

• comparison

• outcome

Which of the following resources may be available to support the implementation of EBP: 

search tools for published research evidence

access to other knowledgeable professionals

networking time

•  all of the above

Which of the following is the chief concern that impedes conduct of EBP? 

Time Constraints

After developing a PICO question and evaluating and integrating all of the available evidence, what did Gillam and Gillam determine would be an appropriate intervention for improving morphosyntax in this particular scenario? 

Clinician-directed intervention 

Which of the following does NOT meet all of the criteria for a PICO question? 

Do children with specific language impairment improve in expressive morphosyntax using the Fast Forward program?

Where can you look for reliable EBP updates including information about assessments and treatment according to disorder areas, resource links and possibly case studies? 

ASHA online practice portal

Of all the ASHA CCC-SLP survey respondents, what percentage read 5-6 journal articles related to treatment or intervention for communication disorders? 

14.5%

Perzsolt et al.'s (2003) EBP decision-making process provides which of the following? 

a way for clinicians to systematically integrate research evidence with their clinical knowledge and experience

parent-client preference

school district guidelines

•  all of the above

Which of the following is not a recommended database for clinically relevant language intervention articles? 

PsychJOURNALS

According to the Oxford Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (2011) system, Level 1 evidence... 

includes RTCs and SRs

Which of the following student-parent factors should be considered as part of the EBP decision-making process?

student activities

financial resources

student-parent opinions

• all of the above

What did the authors identify as a "weak link" in getting SLPs to engage in evidence-based practice? 

The transfer of knowledge in peer reviewed journals to clinicians 

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires service providers to integrate peer-reviewed research into students' individualized education plans. What is an example of peer-reviewed research? 

an article in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology that examines the comparison of finite verb morphology in children with SLI and children with typical language skills

Olswang and Brian (1991) discussed three major purposes of intervention, including... 

a. to change or eliminate the underlying problem

b. to change the disorder

c. to teach compensatory strategies

• all of the above

According to Olswang and Brian (1991), intervention for the purpose of _____________ preserves a behavior that would otherwise decrease or disappear. 

Maintenance

When prioritizing intervention goals, the clinician should place forms and functions used in 50% to 90% of required at ________ priority. 

lower

Clinician-directed (CD) approaches, are also referred to as... 

a. Drill

b. discrete trial intervention

• e. A and B

Which of the following intervention approached is considered the most natural?

child centered

Bayles (2011) and Gillam and Leob (2010) identified several essential ‘ingredients’ that appear to be associated with enhanced learning in intervention settings. Which of the following ‘ingredients’ is described as teaching in the zone of proximal development by providing activities that the client can only do with the clinicians support?

control complexity 

Binger and Light (2006) suggest approximately _____ of young children receiving special education services make use of AAC. 

12%

Which of the following is an example of intrinsic reinforcements? 

 

b. the child says, "want crayon" and is given one

One of Costello's idea for promoting generalization suggests the clinician use stimuli that are semantically relevant, but not direct targets of intervention. This involves introducing... 

c. distracter items 

In the consultant model of service delivery, which of the following may be an alternative agent of intervention? 

 

a. classroom teachers

b. peers

c. SLPA

• d. all of the above

According to ASHA (2004e) criteria, if the individual's speech or language skills no longer adversely affect social, emotional or educational status, intervention may be terminated. 

true 

The SLP has several roles to play in the RTI process, including... 

 

a. using expertise in evaluation methods

b. consulting with teachers and educating staff about how language influences all areas of school performance

c. help design procedures for Tier II instruction

• d. all of the above

As defined by ASHA, early detection and treatment used to eliminate disorders, thereby preventing further complications, corresponds to which level of prevention? 

b. secondary prevention

A slower-than-natural rate of speech, song and rhyme often helps the language-learning child maximize learning in structured intervention activities

true 

Incorporating the continuum of naturalness into therapy can be done by... 

• A and B

a. complementing CD activities with more hybrid approaches

b. engineering the environment

Of the three options for nonoral feeding, which involves surgical risk? 

gastronomy tube

You are working with a family and want to encourage them to use baby talk during interactions. Which of the following would be a strategy you could recommend? 

decreasing utterance lengt

It is most common for infants receiving speech and language therapy through early intervention to receive those services at ________ . 

home

Opening a balloon jar and then waiting for a child to vocalize or gesture before you blow bubbles is an example of: 

communication temptations 

Which of the following is an example of good "core vocabulary" words to include in an AAC system for children in the prelinguistic stage? 

the verb “help”

Which technique has been shown to be associated with decreased length of hospital stay, other periods of assisted ventilation, increased periods of alter ness with infants in the NICU?

kangaroo care

In what ways may an infant readiness for communicative interaction with their parent? 

a. gaze at the parent 

b. expression of comfort vocalizations

• A and B

When should you encourage a parent to engage in book reading with their child? 

it is never too early 

TIPS is an acronym used to help parents of pre-intentional infants optimize parent-child communication. S, "setting the stage", prompts parents to..

stopping during routinized moments of play to allow the child to request the next part of an action

According to Paul and Norbury (2012), what is the first component for intervention in the area of parent-infant communication? 

make parents and caregivers aware of the normal communicative patterns of infants

Comrie and Helm (1997) suggest that if breastfeeding is not possible, consider a variety of bottle/nipple characteristics which help manipulate...

a. flow rate

b. suction

c. compression

• all of the above

If an infant's behaviors resemble 'active alert' (as described by Blackburn, 1978) the parents... 

can cuddle and console to bring the baby to less aroused state

Encouraging parents to _____________, can increase the frequency and maturity of infants sound production. 

engage in higher-than-normal levels of back-and-forth babbling play

What is the type of service plan that is required for a child in the birth-to-three age range who qualifies for early intervention services? 

Individual Family Service Plan

What is an example of an early intervention curriculum that focuses on increasing parents' confidence in their ability to interact with their baby? 

Hanen Early Language Parent Program

What is the rationale for parent involvement in intervention for children with emerging language? 

parent involvement may promote more generalization 

parent involvement may improve other aspects of functioning (i.e., social skills)

parent involvement will allow the SLP to educate and counsel

• d. all of the above

Assigning dramatic roles or emotions to the self, others or inanimate objects, is described as which play type? 

assigning absent attributes

You are working with an 18-month-old who will take turns producing "dadada" with you, claps his hands to imitate you and raises his arms when you play the "So Big" game. What would be an appropriate skill to work on next, as part of home-based intervention services? 

 

a. encouraging the parent to label a toy duck during bath time

With prelinguistic milieu teaching, up to how much time should you allow the client to initiate a response back before you talk? 

 

c. 15 seconds

To elicit two-word utterances, which would be an example of using script therapy? 

singing "Twinkle-Twinkle" and changing the word "star" to "moon

reading "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you hear?" but saying "Pink Frog, Pink Frog"

singing "Five Little Monkeys" but showing finger puppets of cats

• d. all of the above

When working with children with ASD, based on the textbook, what kind of materials should you use? 

 

b. real objects

ILS is especially appropriate for children in the ________ month range. 

 

b. 18-36

Which word would you expect a typically developing child to say first? 

 

b. mommy

If a child only has stops /b/, /p/ and /g/ and the glides /h/ and /w/ present in their inventory, what words would you include when planning a lexicon for this particular client?

 

b. hi 

c. bye-bye

• e. B and C

ELI is a...

 

a. CD approach

During the emerging language period, parents can use books to...

 

b. model important elements of the text by using increased intonation and stress 

c. encourage decontextualized talk relating the stories to their own day to day life 

• d. B and C

Children with ASD typically ___________ their echoed speech as their spontaneous language __________. 

 

b. decrease; grows

FCT provides support to students with emerging language by...

 

b. providing strategies for a range of situations in which communication can reduce a problem behavior

For children with developmental ages less than 18 months, _________ systems are most often recommended. 

 

b. iconic

Which of the following is not an example of a "literacy artifact"?

 

c. listening to music

Which of the following strategies for prompting language use gives children discrete guidelines through visual schedules or social stories? 

 

b. self-monitoring

Which of the following is a word that children with DLD would likely have difficulty acquiring? 

 

c. wish

Which of the following morphological markers would you expect a child with DLD to have the least difficulty with? 

 

b. irregular past tense

In an auditory bombardment activity, how is the child expected to respond during the activity? 

 

c. he/she isn't supposed to respond

According to Fey (2000), which of the following indirect language stimulation techniques is especially effective for children in the developing language stage? 

 

d. recast

Which of the following semantic content words is particularly difficult for children with ASD?

 

c. believe (mental state) 

d. I/you (didactic terms) 

• e. C and D only

Metaphonology is another word for... 

 

c. phonological awareness

Which of the following is not a typical grammatical deficit in children with language impairments? 

 

b. -ing endings

According to the text, research has shown that the most effective interventions for children at risk for later reading problems focus on... 

 

a. explicit teaching of phonemic awareness 

c. letter-sound relationships 

• e. A and C

In a ______________ approach, two words that differ by the target phoneme are presented for contrast. For example, the words _____________. 

 

c. minimal pairs; suit/toot

Which of the following is not a major characteristic of ILS as defined by Junker and Stockman (2012)? 

 

a. client-directed approaches

Which of the following is an example of an event structure that can be used in conjunction with script therapy for a child. 

 

b. ordering lunch in the school cafeteria

Which of the following is not an example of a print referencing activity used to enhance interactions with preschool storybooks?

 

c. print walk

The RTI framework of instruction includes more intensive instruction for children whom progress monitoring indicated a need for additional support. This description of support falls under which Tier? 

 

b. Tier II

When providing intervention for students with echolalia, the clinician can echo the child's echo, then ring a slight change and encourage imitation oft that change. This elicits... 

 

c. mitigated echolalia

What would be an example of a curriculum-based IEP goal that can be implemented in the therapy setting? 

 

a. Emily will identify past tense -ed markers in obligatory contexts with 80% accuracy on spelling tests.

You are using drill therapy to work on plural forms in therapy. Using the child's math curriculum, you show the child a picture of two clocks and say "These are two ___." The child is expected to fill in the black using the appropriate morphological marker. What type of instructional strategy is this? 

 

c. cloze procedure

What is the most common child-centered technique in the L4L stage? 

 

a. scaffolding

You come up with your own version of Scattergories during therapy, in which your client has to come up with words that start with a specific letter, and are related to vocabulary terms from his science curriculum. This is an example of what kind of cues? 

 

b. phonological

During therapy, you tell your client "Today we are going to work on identifying passive sentences." Then you describe what a passive sentence is. This is an example of... 

 

b. going meta

When doing phonological awareness therapy with children who are at very low skill levels for phonological awareness, what would be an appropriate question to ask them? 

 

b. How many syllables in "butterfly"?

What is not one way that a classroom environment may be modified so that the elementary-school aged child with special needs can participate? 

 

c. decreasing the typical time allotted for test taking

Positive behavior support (PBS) emphasizes...

 

b. functional skill development

Conversation and agreement regarding how the service team should respond to both the replacement skills and maladaptive behavior in a student, falls under which component of a comprehensive PBS intervention plan? 

 

d. consequential strategies

CBT is a ________ approach to developing comprehension-monitoring and metacognitive strategies for increasing learning skills. 

 

a. clinician-directed

Figure 12-3 in the textbook shows a sample of an illustrated vocabulary card, which helps students construct a symbolic representation of the word. This __________ intervention aids in ____________. 

 

b. hybrid; vocabulary and reading comprehension

The textbook discusses the use of 'academic clubs' (Waldron, 1992) as a model for...

 

a. cooperative learning groups

If a curriculum is __________, the targets are related to the major domains in which the student must function (Falvey, Grenot-Scheyer and Luddy, 1987). 

 

b. community referenced

When a clinician develops a story that follows simple narrative format that incorporates a problem faced by a particular child, they are following which specific approach? 

 

b. personal pragmatic story (PPS)

Which is not an evidence-based method for promoting reading fluency? 

 

c. modeled reading