COMPS: Language Disorders (Asa Marie Quizlet)

The relationship between socioeconomic status and language impaired is mediated by

maternal education

Language is comprised of three major areas: form, content, and use. Use includes the following component of language

pragmatics

Language is comprised of three major areas: form, content, and use. Form includes the following components of language

-syntax

-morphology

-phonology

Language is comprised of three major areas: form, content, and use. Content includes the following components of language

semantics

Etiologies associated with DLD include

-genetic factors

-environmental factors

-neurobiological factors

The four types of AAC are

-mid tech

-high tech

-no tech

-light tech

When assessing, you can assume that if one modality of language is within normal limits then the others will be as well.

false

Various organizations commonly accept a standard score that is 1.25 standard deviation below the mean for a qualifying criterion of a DLD diagnosis.

true

Intervention is a powerful tool that can shape development and behavior.

true

Sometimes caregiver interaction style is the result of adapting to the child's disorder rather than the cause of it.

true

Eligibility, diagnosis and assessment are all terms that mean the same thing in different settings.

false

Intellectual Disability and language disorders show minimal variability in all special populations.

false

Neurodiversity is variation in the human brain which are natural and a valuavle part of humanity.

true

Gestalt language processors process language in single word units. Analytical language processors process language in whole chunks.

false

At a minimum, an assessment should establish

-hearing level and oral motor function

-intelligibility

-comprehension and production

Which of the following assessments is an estimate of the child's ability to solve problems without relying on languge skills?

assessment of nonverbal cognition

As it relates to assessing social functioning, which of the following information should be obtained?

-cultural and linguistic differences

-emotional/behavioral adjustment

-family's perceptions of the child's needs and their priorities in meeting those needs

When considering a low-structure observation, what could the clinician gain understanding of?

-impression of the child's expressive language abilities

-pragmatic skills

-potential comprehension difficulties

The developmental course of a child and any issues regarding it are important to obtain in what part of the comprehensive assessment

case history

Which of the following are challenges or issues related to standardized tests?

-fairness

-minimal detailed description of language forms and functions

-determination of the level of difference that is clinically meaningful

Which of the following are considered characteristics of autism

-communication differences

-social interaction differences

-interests and behaviors

Which statement best describes the expressive vs. receptive language profile commonly seen in individuals with cerebral palsy?

Receptive language is often stronger than expressive language due to motor speech limitations

Which assessment approach is most appropriate when evaluating a child with an intellectual disability?

using informal measures such as language samples and caregiver interviews

Which intervention strategy is considered evidence-based for children with early-onset hearing loss?

early amplification and auditory-verbal therapy

Order the following preverbal sounds based on their development:

1. vegetative sounds

2. cooing, laughing

3. quasi-resonance nuclei, vocal play

4. canonical, reduplicated babbling-CV syllables

5. jargon with intonation contours

At 24 months, _ of all consonant sounds are correct.

70%

A child's first words are only used for names of familiar people.

false

What are the four major reasons for assessment?

-short answer-

Explain why comprehension is harder to test for than production.

-short answer-

List two strategies for developing culturally responsive/sensitive/competent practices when working with culturally and linguistically diverse families.

-short answer-

Categorize the following therapy strategies based on intervention approach:

Clinician-Directed

-drill

-drill play

-modeling

Categorize the following therapy strategies based on intervention approach:

Child-Centered

-facilitated play

-daily activites

Categorize the following therapy strategies based on intervention approach:

Hybrid

-milieu teaching/therapy

-focused stimulation

-script therapy

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Advocate for AAC access and partner training across environments

Cerebral Palsy

Support executive functioning, structured routines, and direct social communication intervention

Intellectual Disablility

Focus on functional communication, generalization, and caregiver collaboration

ADHD

Combine behavioral strategies with executive functioning supports

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Implement neurodiversity-affirming, relationship-centered care

Intelligibility increases from 50% to 70% at 24-36 months.

true

A gastronomy or G-tube is used when nonroral feeding is needed for a short period of time.

false

When considering older prelinguistic clients and those with autism, it is important to identify unconventional forms of communication such as echolalia, aggression or self abuse, body orientation, touch, and changes in muscle tone.

true

An MLU

true

Standardized tests are the primary tools that tell us specific forms, functions, and structures to target.

false

Expansion is where the clinician keeps the child's meaning but changes the form of the sentence.

false

Considerations for readiness for oral feeding include:

-Respiratory/Cardiovascular Stability

-Gestational Age

-Severity of medical condition

In what stage have infants not developed cognitive skills to represent ideas in their minds and to pursue goals?

Preintentional

The average vocabulary size at 24 months of age is _ words.

300

For children with an accumulation of risk factors for continued communication delays, consider:

Intervention

Developmentally appropriate communication of 3-5 year olds includes:

-Expressive Vocabularies of larger than 50 words

-Combining words into sentences

-Lack of acquisition of all basic sentence structures of language

Which of the following terms includes concepts like "here" and "there?"

Deictic terms

Which of the following is NOT a scaffolding opportunity used when attempting a form in a meaningful context?

Write the form on a translucent paper for the child to see

When considering intervention for syntax and morphology in the developing language stage, which of the following strategies are evidence-based ways to support skills in this area:

-Auditory Bombardment

-Explicitly teaching the grammatical rule

-Variation of usage

-Sentence placement for saliency

Prematurity is described as birth prior to _ weeks gestation with _ birth weight.

-37

-low

Parents with children in the prelinguistic stages of communication should be encouraged to _ and _ communication attempts.

-scaffold

-support

Preverbal intentional communication is using _, _, and _ at 8-12 months.

-gaze

-gestures

-vocalizations

Expressive vocabulary starts slowly at 1-3 words at _ months, 10 words at _ months and 50-100 words at _ months.

-12

-15

-18

Intervention targets and procedures for older clients with emerging language provide emerging _ opportunities.

preliteracy

Clinicians are to treat parents/caregivers as a _ and _ source of information about the child.

-valid

-reliable

The _ focuses on the child's education needs/goals and the _ focuses on the child's needs/goals as it relates to the family as a whole.

-IEP

-IFSP

Children with phonological production problems—perhaps due to presence of phonological processes beyond what is developmentally expected—may have trouble acquiring _ placing them at risk for reading problems.

phonological awareness

Some hybrid approaches for developing language include _, _, and _.

-focused stimulation

-script therapy

-structured play

When a clinician takes the child's verbalization and presents it in a different structure, it is an intervention strategy called _. When a clinician takes the child's verbalization and keeps the structure similar but adds additional words for meaning, it is an intervention strategy called _.

-recasts

-expansions

For our older clients who might be in various stages of language development that does not align with their age, what might be a great tool to implement to support their functional communication?

-short answer-

List two strategies for activity-based language intervention and provide therapy examples for each.

-short answer-

List two language elicitation techniques and provide a therapy example for each technique.

-short answer-

You are an SLP in a pre-K/primary school (Pre-K through First Grade) and the principal has asked you to support all children by providing push-in preliteracy development activity once a week for the Pre-K four year old class. Describe two goals you could have for this and what therapy materials and activities you might do in a given session.

Be thorough and be sure to include 2 goals, therapy materials, and activity/activities to support the goals.

-short answer-

When assessing, you can assume that if one modality of language is within normal limits then the others will be as well.

false

Various organizations commonly accept a standard score that is 1.25 standard deviations below the mean for a qualifying criterion of a DLD diagnosis.

true

Intervention is a powerful tool that can shape development and behavior.

true

Sometimes caregiver interaction style is the result of adapting to the child's disorder rather than the cause of it.

true

Eligibility, diagnosis and assessment are all the terms that mean the same thing in different settings.

false

Intellectual Disability and language disorders show minimal variability in all special populations

false

Neurodiversity is variation in the human brain which are natural and a valuable part of humanity.

true

Gestalt language processors process language in single word units. Analytical language processors process language in whole chunks.

false

Intelligibility increases from 50% to 70% at 24-36 months.

true

A gastronomy or G-tube is used when nonoral feeding is needed for a short period of time.

false

When considering older prelinguistic clients and those with autism, it is important to identify unconventional forms of communication such as echolalia, aggression or self-abuse, body orientation, touch, and changes in muscle tone.

true

An MLU

true

Standardized tests are the primary tools that tell us specific forms, functions, and structures to target.

false

Expansion is where the clinician keeps the child's meaning but changes the form of the sentence.

false

Children who have phonological awareness show stronger abilities in learning to read than children who do not have phonological awareness skills.

true

Eligibility for services can be determined through RTI progress monitoring alone.

false

RTI provides the SLP opportunity to support not only those children with identified disabilities, but to use our knowledge of language across modalities to serve a broad range of children who struggle to read.

true

The SLP's role in secondary education (advanced language stage) is to teach basic decoding/spelling and helping students with homework.

false

At the advanced language stage, the SLP is not only looking at the student's skills, but also at the student's strategies.

true

Intersentenial growth occurs between words,

false

When integrating oral and written language you should provide oral and written opportunities for students to practice the forms and functions targeted in intervention.

true

It is important to note that behavior is communication, so we need to see it through a lens of what does the child need.

true

Parents with children in the prelinguistic stages of communication should be encouraged to _ and _ communication attempts.

-scaffold

-support

Preverbal intentional communication is using _, _, and _ at 8-12 months.

-gaze

-gestures

-vocalizations

Expressive vocabulary starts slowly at 1-3 words at _ months, 10 words at _ months and 50-100 words at _ months.

-12

-15

-18

Intervention targets and procedures for older clients with emerging language provide emerging _ opportunities.

-preliteracy

Clinicians are to treat parents/caregivers as a _ and _ source of information about the child.

-valid

-reliable

The _ focuses on the child's education needs/goals and the _ focuses on the child's needs/goals as it relates to the family as a whole.

-IEP

-IFSP

Children with phonological production problems--perhaps due to the presence of phonological processes beyond what is developmentally expected--may have trouble acquiring _ placing them at risk for reading problems.

-phonological awareness

Some hybrid approaches for developing language include _, _, and _.

-focused stimulation

-script therapy

-structured play

Without background knowledge, there is a lack of information to support _ of reading material.

-comprehension

_ is the speakers understanding of the audience or listener's background knowledge.

-Presupposition

Interviewing/Narrative samples gather better information regarding complex language

than play-based sampling for the _ age range

7-12-year-old

Based on one of the four principles of intervention for the L4L stage, target goals are based on materials drawn from the _ _ and support the state standards for language and literacy.

-academic

-curriculum