lang dis.: basics & assessment

Question 1

plural -s

Answer 1

dogs, cats, busses

Question 2

possessive -s

Answer 2

the dog’s bone, the cat’s meow

Question 3

3rd person singular -s

Answer 3

the dog runs, the cat mewoes
-they do the action

Question 4

past tense -ed

Answer 4

the dog barked, the cat meowed

Question 5

perfective aspect -ed

Answer 5

the girl has played, had played
-recently completed

Question 6

progressive aspect -ing

Answer 6

the boy is playing, was playing with

Question 7

negative contractions

Answer 7

dont, wont, cant, isnt

Question 8

modal verb contractions

Answer 8

hell go, theyd like to

Question 9

contractions of the coupla

Answer 9

im going, youre going, shes here

Question 10

copula

Answer 10

“be”: i am, you are, she is, we are, i was, you were

Question 11

infintival to

Answer 11

she wants to play, the like to eat icecream

Question 12

auxillary verbs

Answer 12

have (perspective aspect), be (progressive aspect), do (negatives, questions, emphasis

Question 13

modals

Answer 13

can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will, would

Question 14

subjective/nominative pronouns

Answer 14

i, you, he, she, we, they

Question 15

objective/accusative pronouns

Answer 15

me, you, him, her, us, them

Question 16

possessive pronouns

Answer 16

my, your, his, her, their, our

Question 17

reflexive pronouns

Answer 17

mysef, yourself, hiself, herself

Question 18

clause

Answer 18

subject + predicate (verb) + object

the child threw the ball

Question 19

c-unit

Answer 19

has to be able to stand alone

ex: **the child threw the ball **in the back alley

Question 20

coordinated c-units

Answer 20

could stand on their own but b/c they’re combined with “and, or, but” etc. they cannot

ex. The frog jumped on the lilypad and then jumped in.

Question 21

subordinate clauses

Answer 21

cannot stand on its own
the child threw the ball while in the back alley

importantt for following directions

Question 22

types of language samples

Answer 22

conversation, play-based, story retell

Question 23

representative sample

Answer 23

-at least 50 utterances
-optimizes developmental progress
-reflects speaker’s typical language use
-challenges production abilities

Question 24

purpose of assessment: screening

Answer 24

identify children at risk for DLD to find those who need more in-depth assessment

Question 25

screening instrument properties

Answer 25

-psychometric properties
-range of areas assessed
-problems of false-positive and false-negative dindings
-lack of gold standard for speech screening

Question 26

purpose of assessment: evaluation

Answer 26

-high stakes summative assessment
-identify areas of strengths and needs
-requires exam of all areas of comm. through standardized testing
-may require observation in multiple settings and tasks into account
-incorporates parents as partners

Question 27

purpose of assessment: establishing goals for intervention

Answer 27

lower stakes formative assessment:
-identify appropriate targets and procedures with reference to typical developmental sequence
-takes into account both deficits and strengths
-addresses all domains and modalities of lang.
-includes priorities of parents and academic context

Question 28

purpose of assessment: measuring change in intervention

Answer 28

-formative assessment
-determine wether goals have been achieved
-contributes to decisions about dimissal from intervention

Question 29

assess form

Answer 29

-syntax
-morphology
-phonology

Question 30

assess content

Answer 30

-knowledge of basic concepts and underlying language
-vocab
-semantic relationships among words and clauses, understanding ambiguity and multiple meanings
-understanding figurative language use

Question 31

assess use (primarily pragmatics)

Answer 31

-appearance of appropriate range of communicative factors
-discourse management skills
-clarity, cohesion, and coherence in discourse

Question 32

assess all core language in

Answer 32

receptive AND expressive modalities

Question 33

other areas to assess

Answer 33

1. hearing
2. oral-motor exam
3. nonverbal cognition
4. social functioning
5. adaptive skills
6. emotional status and emotional regulation
7. role of cultural and language differences in client’s lang. development

Question 34

psychometric properties of standardized tests

Answer 34

-clear administration and scoring criteria
-validity
-reliability
-diagnostic accuracy
-standardization
-measures of central tendency and variability

Question 35

vlaidity

Answer 35

measures what we think it will

Question 36

reliability

Answer 36

get same results each time

Question 37

diagnostic accuracy

Answer 37

accurately dentifiy disorder

Question 38

standard errors of measurement

Answer 38

a statistical measure of the similarity of repeated measures taken from the same source, for example, from the same person
-also known as confidence interval

Question 39

grade-equivalent scores

Answer 39

score differently based upon age. take raw score and compare to mean raw score of other ages

Question 40

mental age equivalent scores

Answer 40

what mental age is it when you compare raw scores

-kinda stray away from this can have negative connotations for parents

Question 41

sensitivity

Answer 41

measures the proportion of positives that are correctly identified as such

Question 42

specificity

Answer 42

measures the proportion of negatives that are correctly identified as such

Question 43

in the sentence “she taught me how to swim” what type of pronoun is the word me?

Answer 43

object pronoun

Question 44

in the sentence “she taught me how to swim” what type of pronoun is the word she?

Answer 44

subject pronoun

Question 45

“i am confident she knows what she’s doing” what grammatical morpheme is attached to know

Answer 45

3rd person singular -s

Question 46

a 2-year old boy and his mom are visiting grandma. mom has promise the boy icecream after the visit. the boy tells his grandma “i going for icecream” which of the following most closely matches the boys intended uttrance

Answer 46

i’m going for icecream

Question 47

a 3 year old boy and his dad are at the zoo. the boy tells his dad “i see two lion!” what form was used incorrectly

Answer 47

plural -s

Question 48

“i am confident she knows she she’s doing” what grammatical morpheme is attatched to she

Answer 48

contracted form of the coupla be

Question 49

“him hitted me” is an example of what

Answer 49

overuse of object pronoun