DLD

Quiz 1

Which of the following words contains a bound grammatical morpheme?

Before morning, the girls will find out whether the red-headed doll is unbroken.

• Answers:

• girls

your selection - correct answer

• red-headed

• morning

• unbroken

2. 

Michael and Jane are having a conversation. Michael says he really hopes that the Mountaineers win the next basketball game. Jane says she agrees that they have been struggling. In this scenario, Michael’s initiation of the conversation makes him the _____________.

• Answers:

• receiver

• respondent

• participant

• sender

your selection - correct answer

3. 

________________ are differences in genetic risk and neurological structure and function associated with a disorder.

• Answers:

• environmental factors

• cognitive factors

• behavioral factors

• biological factors

your selection - correct answer

4. 

When an infant points at the refrigerator to request a drink, this would be an example of ___________.

• Answers:

• oral communication

• iconic communication

your selection - correct answer

• preintentional communication

• verbal communication

5. 

Which of the following words would be easier to learn because of the concept being represented?

• Answers:

• know

• tomorrow

• think

• go

your selection - correct answer

6. 

Which sentence is an example of a negative?

• Answers:

• Nobody is answering the phone.

• I hadn't received the email.

your selection - correct answer

• Anybody can come over.

• They had given neither of us the answer.

7. 

The _________ is the smallest unit of sound that can signal a difference in meaning. 

• Answers:

• grapheme

• perceptual target

• phoneme

your selection - correct answer

• morpheme

8. 

_________________ are the smallest units of language that carry meaning and are combined to make words. 

• Answers:

• words

• morphemes

your selection - correct answer

• phonemes

• graphemes

9. 

_________________ is a complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols that is used in various modes for thought and communication.

• Answers:

• language

your selection - correct answer

• American Sign Language

• speech

• hearing

10. 

Bloom & Lahey’s model of language includes three areas (form, content, use). Which of the 5 areas of language is included in use?

• Answers:

• semantics

• pragmatics

correct answer

• syntax

• phonology

your selection - incorrect answer

1. 

Which of the following would be a purpose of a screening for DLD?

• Answers:

• to identify those at-risk for DLD

correct answer

• to diagnose DLD

• to characterize the nature of the disability

• to identify current language abilities

your selection - incorrect answer

2. 

Which of the following would be a measure of diagnostic accuracy?

• Answers:

• positive predictive value

correct answer

• confidence interval

• standard error of measure

your selection - incorrect answer

• interrater reliability

3. 

Which of the following would be appropriate for assessing expressive language?

• Answers:

• following directions

• categorizing the words understood

• asking the child to point to a picture that matches a sentence

• categorizing the words said

your selection - correct answer

4. 

A behavioral feature of DLD would be which of the following?

• Answers:

• reduced asymmetry

• delayed acquisition of words

your selection - correct answer

• family history

• inefficient auditory system

5. 

You have the parent provide a list of the words that a child says. What domain of language are you assessing?

• Answers:

• receptive

• use

your selection - incorrect answer

• content

correct answer

• form

6. 

Research demonstrating that DLD is "highly heritable" would be considered what type of a factor?

• Answers:

• behavioral

• environmental

• biological

your selection - correct answer

• cognitve

7. 

You ask the child to hand you a dog while playing. What area of language are you assessing?

• Answers:

• receptive

your selection - correct answer

• phonology

• expressive

• use

8. 

When understanding the etiology of Developmental Language Disorders (DLD), what type of factor would the amount of reading the child is exposed to be?

• Answers:

• cognitive

• behavioral

• biological

• environmental

your selection - correct answer

9. 

Which of the following would be most appropriate for assessing receptive language?

• Answers:

• imitation

• narrative sample

• following directions

your selection - correct answer

• language sample

10. 

Which of the following would be a "collateral" area to assess during an evaluation for DLD?

• Answers:

• uses of language

• expressive language

• receptive language

• oral motor functioning

your selection - correct answer

Quiz 2

1.   Sarai is playing with her baby and pretends to feed it a bottle over and over. What age would you predict Sarai to be?

• Answers:

• 13-20 months

your selection - correct answer

• 20-24 months

• 28 months

• 36 months

2. 

As you are evaluating a child, you ask the caregiver about what is or isn't going well with for them with their child at home. What type of evaluation method i this?

• Answers:

• play-based assessment

• criterion referenced based assessment

• routine-based assessment

correct answer

• dynamic assessment

your selection - incorrect answer

3. 

Which of the following sentences has regular 3rd person singular -s in it?

• Answers:

• The girl is walking home.

• The girl walked home.

• The girl had walked home.

• The girl walks home.

your selection - correct answer

4. 

At what age should a child have communication acts that are behavior regulatory, joint attention, and social interaction?

• Answers:

• 8 months

• 12 months

your selection - correct answer

• 15 months

• 18 months

5. 

At what age for the child would you become concerned if they have no verbs?

• Answers:

• 12 months

• 15 months

• 18 months

your selection - incorrect answer

• 24 months

correct answer

6. 

The goal for prevention is ______________________________.

• Answers:

• to remediate disorders.

• enhance skills to continue to develop.

• to inhibit disorders before they occur.

your selection - correct answer

7. 

The social-interactionist theory is known for _______________ which emphasizes that children have an independent level of language which can be supported by peers and adults so the child is able to perform a more complex language task. 

• Answers:

• modules in the brain

• zone of proximal development

your selection - correct answer

• reinforcements

• punishments

8. 

_________________ theory proposes that cognition and language are intertwined with growth in cognitive ability preceding language.

• Answers:

• Competition model

your selection - incorrect answer

• Social-interactionist theory

• Behaviorist theory

• Cognitive theory

correct answer

9. 

Sarah gives a container to her mom because she is hungry. What is the function of her communication act?

• Answers:

• social interaction

your selection - incorrect answer

• joint attention

• behavior regulation

correct answer

• protest

10. 

This theory poses that children learn language through conditioning and shaping based upon whether interactions are reinforced or punished. Which theory would this be? 

• Answers:

• cognitive

• behavioral

your selection - correct answer

• bootstrapping

• social interactionist

11. 

How many words do you need to begin combining words (i.e., 2-word utterances)?

• Answers:

• 10-20 words

• 30-40 words

• 50-100 words

your selection - correct answer

• 100-150 words

12. 

Sarah says, "He buyed that." Which language development theory/model would account for this language error?

• Answers:

• Behaviorist Theory

• Social-Interactionist Theory

• Competition Model

your selection - correct answer

• Intentionality Model

13. 

If a child has ______________ words and is not combining words (i.e., 2-word utterances), you should be concerned (aka, that is a red flag).

• Answers:

• 50 words

your selection - incorrect answer

• 100 words

correct answer

• 150 words

• 200 words

14. 

What is the rate of communication for an 18 month old child?

• Answers:

• 1 act/minute

• 2 acts/minute

your selection - correct answer

• 5 acts/minute

• 8 acts/minute

15. 

Provide the name of one parent-report tool that can be used in an assessment. __________

• Answers:

• MCDI-3

• MacArthur Bates Communication Inventory

• CSBS-DP

• Your answer:

• MacArthur Bates Assessment

incorrect

16. 

You are going to assess a child and decide that you want the caregiver to complete a questionnaire. What type of assessment activity is this?

• Answers:

• Play-based assessment

• Parent-completed tool

your selection - correct answer

• Dynamic assessment

• Observation

17. 

Rewrite the following question from the Crais (2011) article so that it better aligns with the principles of evaluation and interviewing which you learned in CSAD664. (Only write the question.)

"Can you talk about some of the daily activities you do with _____ and how each one is going?"

Could you tell me how this is affecting their daily living? 

18. 

Which of the following would be an area to assess for a child who communicates without words?

• Answers:

• phonological processes

• phonological inventory

your selection - correct answer

• MLU

• grammatical morphology used

19. 

The purpose of enrichment is ___________________________.

• Answers:

• to enhance skills beyond where they are.

your selection - correct answer

• to inhibit disorders before they occur.

• to assist those with disorder acquire necessary skills.

20. 

As you are reviewing a child's chart, you find out that the child has been diagnosed with autism. What type of factor would this be considered?

• Answers:

• Dual language learned

• Family concerns/priorities

• Environmental stressor

• Family history/background

Quiz 3

1. 

Which of the following would be the most developed stage of speech prior to words?

• Answers:

• marginal babbling

• nonreduplicated babbling

• jargon

your selection - correct answer

• reuplicated babbling

2. 

The earliest stage of speech development is ___________________.

• Answers:

• cooing

• control phonation

• babbling

• reflexive vocalization

your selection - correct answer

3. 

Which of the following would be a "Basic Word?"

• Answers:

• Fuji apple

• fruit

• Mandarin

• orange

your selection - correct answer

4. 

The first job of an infant is to _____________________.

• Answers:

• to smile at their parent.

• to maintain eye contact with their parent.

• begin understanding what is said around them.

your selection - correct answer

• to talk.

5. 

True words must meet these three criteria: clear intention (used appropriately for context), have a recognizable production (given speech development), and ________________.

• Answers:

• imitated 

• used in sentence

• used consistently

your selection - correct answer

• used 3 times in a row

6. 

Which of the following common word mistakes would be an example of perceptual categorization?

• Answers:

• calling an orange a ball

correct answer

• calling a plane a bird

your selection - incorrect answer

• calling a comb a brush

• calling chalk a pencil

7. 

When looking at a book, the child points to the truck and looks at the adult. The function of this type of gesture would be:

• Answers:

• requesting information

your selection - correct answer

• attention seeking

• protest

• informing

8. 

In Phase 2 of communication, what do children do?

• Answers:

• use gestures to communicate

correct answer

• watch person intently who is interacting with them

• use words

• look at social partner

your selection - incorrect answer

9. 

At what age do children start canonical babbling?

• Answers:

• 0-2 months

• 3-8 months

• 5-10 months

your selection - correct answer

• 10-12 months

10. 

Paralinguistic features of ______________________ include a high overall pitch, exaggerated pitch contours, and slower tempo.

• Answers:

• Child-directed speech

• Adolescent-directed speech

• Infant-directed speech

your selection - correct answer

• Adult-directed speech

Quiz 4

1. 

At 12 months of age, a child should have at least __________ different types of functions they communicate.

• Answers:

• 1

• 2

correct answer

• 5

your selection - incorrect answer

• 10

2. 

Which of the following are common representational gestures that precede the use of words?

• Answers:

• waving bye-bye and running motion

• waving bye-bye and drinking motion

your selection - incorrect answer

• waving bye-bye and dancing to music

correct answer

• waving bye-bye and brushing hair motion

3. 

_________________ predicts comprehension and production skills.

• Answers:

• joint attention acts

your selection - correct answer

• behavior regulatory acts

• social routines

• nonverbal skills

4. 

This type of gesture must be interpreted based upon the context it is used.

• Answers:

• signaling

• sign language

• deictic gestures

correct answer

• representational

your selection - incorrect answer

5. 

At what age do children stop using almost all representational gestures?

• Answers:

• 12 months

• 15 months

• 18 months

your selection - incorrect answer

• 20 months

correct answer

• 24 months

• 30 months

6. 

What two aspects of communication are likely to distinguish "late talkers" from those with DLD?

• Answers:

• phonological repertoire and use of gestures

• rate of communication and use of gestures

• rate of communication and level of comprehension

• level of comprehension and use of gestures

your selection - correct answer

7. 

A typical child who is interacting with a responsive adult will have __________ acts a minute at 2 years of age.

• Answers:

• 2

• 1

• 10

• 5

your selection - correct answer

8. 

The amount of gestures used by an infant is correlated with ______________________.

• Answers:

• syntax development

• later clarity of speech

• later vocabulary

your selection - correct answer

• comprehension skills

9. 

Which of the following gestures would develop first?

• Answers:

• give

your selection - correct answer

• show

• drink from cup gesture

• distal point

10. 

The function of a child giving a toy to the adult for help making it go would be ___________________.

• Answers:

• behavior regulation

correct answer

• social interaction

your selection - incorrect answer

• comment

• joint attention

Quiz 6

1. 

Which of the following might be an adaptation that you consider when evaluating the language skills of older students/adults at this stage of language acquisition?

• Answers:

• using chronological-age appropriate materials

• considering the use of AAC

your selection - incorrect answer

• focusing on functional communication

• all of the above

correct answer

2. 

Which of the following phonological processes would most likely be suppressed first (i.e., go away)?

• Answers:

• liquidification

• unstressed syllable deletion

• final consonant deletion

your selection - correct answer

• cluster reduction

3. 

Which of the following methods would be an appropriate way to assess pragmatic skills?

• Answers:

• observation of child using checklist

your selection - incorrect answer

• interview of caregiver/teacher using an inventory checklist

• questionnaire completed by caregiver/teacher

• all of the above

correct answer

4. 

For which area of language would you want to NOT use a standardized test to assess it?

• Answers:

• receptive vocabulary

• morphological structures

• pragmatic language

your selection - correct answer

• expressive vocabulary

5. 

What is the purpose of the ecological inventory?

• Answers:

• determine the client's communication abilities in their environment/typical day

your selection - correct answer

• assess the client's ability to move around his/her environment

• assess the safety of the environment

• find out who is in the environment

6. 

Which of the following is a language-based disorder?

• Answers:

• fluency

• phonological processing

your selection - correct answer

• speech sound

• apraxia of speech

7. 

Which of the following prepositions should be acquired early?

• Answers:

• in

your selection - correct answer

• above

• below

• between

8. 

How many morphemes are in the following utterance?

The children read the Itsy Bitsy Spider after the school's drill.

• Answers:

• 9

• 10

correct answer

• 11

• 12

your selection - incorrect answer

• 13

9. 

Children are considered at a developing language stage (or simple sentences) if they 1) _____________ 2) have begun to combine words into sentences, and 3) have not yet acquired all grammatical morphemes.

• Answers:

• have less than 50 words

• look at you

• talk a lot

• have more than 50 words

your selection - correct answer

10. 

Which of the following grammatical morphemes is acquired the earliest?

• Answers:

• copula be

• progressing -ing

correct answer

• 3rd person singular -s

• -ed

your selection - incorrect answer

11. 

Which of the following measures from SALT would evaluate vocabulary?

• Answers:

• percent mazed utterances

• Number of different words

your selection - correct answer

• number of complete and intelligible utterances

• mean length of utterance

12. 

Which of the following measures in SALT would evaluate grammatical morphology?

• Answers:

• number of different words in standard measures report

• total number of words in standard measures report

• percent mazed utterances in standard measures report

• percent obligatory context in bound morpheme table

your selection - correct answer

13. 

Which of the following consonants would be acquired first most often?

• Answers:

• /l/

• /w/

your selection - correct answer

• /s/

• /r/

14. 

Which of the following language sample measures has been shown to have good diagnostic accuracy on its own for language disorders?

• Answers:

• percent consonants correct

• percent mazed utterances

• percent prepositions used correctly

• percent grammatical utterances

your selection - correct answer

15. 

Which of the following statements does Paul et al. (2025) assert?

• Answers:

• Some clients referred for a speech or language disorder should also be assessed in the areas of hearing and speech-motor ability.

your selection - incorrect answer

• Every client referred for a speech or language disorder should also be assessed only in those areas.

• Every client referred for a speech or language disorder should also be assessed in the areas of hearing and speech-motor ability.

correct answer

• Every client referred for a speech or language disorder should also be assessed in the areas speech-motor ability but not hearing.

1. 

In Heilmann et al. (2010), which of the following was the method for comparing the length of samples?

• Answers:

• time (1 minute, 3 minutes, 7 minutes)

correct answer

• examiner utterance length (20 utterance, 50 utterance, 100 utterances)

• total utterance length (20 utterance, 50 utterance, 100 utterances)

• child utterance length (20 utterance, 50 utterance, 100 utterances)

your selection - incorrect answer

2. 

What is the length of utterance recommended previously (based upon the review of literature)?

• Answers:

• 50-100 utterances

your selection - correct answer

• 10 minutes

• 20 minutes

• 25 utterances

3. 

What were the two activities children were asked to do during the language sample?

• Answers:

• narrative and expository

• conversation and narrative

your selection - correct answer

• conversation and expository

• conversation and persuasive

4. 

What is the most common reason that SLPs give for not using language sampling?

• Answers:

• training

• not useful information

• understanding data

• time

your selection - correct answer

5. 

Did the article's results provide a definitive answer as to the length of your sample you would want?

• Answers:

• Yes

• No