Pediatric Ax and Tx: Assessment review Questions

Your client lets you know he does not want to sit down by throwing a tantrum, kicking, and screaming. What stage of Bates Development of Intent is he in?

Illocutionary

A newborn in the NICU has started gaining weight and is now breathing on his own. He starts to interact with his environment and responds to parent interactions in unpredictable ways. What state of physiological organization is he in?

Coming out

What is the chronological age of a 12-month old infant born at 28 weeks?

9 months

You are the SLP in the NICU. Your role in assessing this child includes:

A & C

Which of the following is not a red flag for speech, language?

Child is not using pretend play at 30 months

Parent reports that child continuously using the incorrect verb usage, wrong sequence of present and past tense, and errors in the use of articles. What are these problems indicative of?

Poor syntax/morphology

If you are wanting to assess how a child’s performance in comparison to predetermined criteria, but not compare it to a standardized norm, what type of assessment should be given?

Criteron-referenced measures

If a formal assessment is determined to have high sensitivity, what does that mean in relation to identifying children for therapy?

We are doing a good job of identifying who needs therapy based on assessment results

A student’s standard score on the PLS-5 is a 67. Based on the standard bell curve, how many standard deviations from the mean would correlate with the standard score above?

Between - 1 and -2 SD

What are positive prognostic indicators to mention in a assessment report?

Age and Familial support

What other kinds of assessment measures would be important to administer and consider aside from standardized norm-referenced measures?

All of the above

You are on an interdisciplinary team consisting of PT, OT, and SLP. You each carry out your own assessment, then share results with each other. What type of team approach is this?

Transdisciplinary

You are assessing a 20-month old child’s communicative intents and discover this child averages fewer than 10 communicative acts acts/15 minutes. What is your reaction as an SLP?

I am concerned about language comprehension

A child uses gestures such as pointing, waving, and reaching. What type of gestures are these?

Distal gestures

What types of developmental scales might you use with the emerging language population (18-36m)?

d. B and C

What types of formal measures might you use for the emerging language population (18-36m)?

d. A and C

Poor skills in this area are the hallmark of DLD.

Morphosyntax

What is a milestone that we can expect from a typically developing child in the developmental language stage?

Comprehend BOTH probable and improbable 3-term/simple sentences

List the possible criterion-referenced tasks for comprehension in order from most contextual support to least contextual support.

__ Acting out tasks

__ Recognition/identification tasks

__ Judgement tasks

2, 1, 3

What is the goal of pragmatic assessment in the developing language stage?

All the above

An assessment measure that focuses on analyzing the student’s classwork/homework is part of a curriculum-based assessment. It is more specifically known as:

Portfolio/artifact analysis

Which of the following is NOT a meta skill we typically assess in school-aged children?

Narratives

Which of the following is NOT an example of a derivational morpheme?

Student → students

One day, Betty’s cat got stuck up in a tree. The cat climbed all the way to the top. Betty asked her brother to get a ladder and get her car. Her brother came with the ladder and got the cat down. Then the cat ran down the street and didn’t come home until dinnertime. This narrative is an example of a

Primitive narrative