Quiz Qs 9-11

Question 1

Fluent speech, devoid of content, is characteristic of

Answer 1

Wernicke’s aphasia

Question 2

Age-related naming problems tend to result in

Answer 2

Circumlocutions

Question 3

Right hemisphere damage in adults result in difficulty with

Answer 3

Pragmatics

Question 4

Most neuro-typical older adults have at least some language comprehension problems

Answer 4

Because of acquired hearing loss

Question 5

Phonology does not change substantially with increasing age

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The two types of strokes discussed in class are ischemic and hemorrhage

Answer 6

true

Question 7

Broca’s damage occurs in the right hemisphere

Answer 7

False

Question 8

A speech impairment does not necessarily imply a language impairment

Answer 8

True

Question 9

A thrombosis is a clot that blocks off the blood supply where it forms

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The 2 types of hemorrhages are embolic and subarachnoid

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Echolalia in the speech of children with autism

Answer 11

Seems to decrease in frequency as spontaneous communication speech develops

Question 12

Children born profoundly deaf and receive a cochlear implant

Answer 12

Will learn to talk and use language with intensive instruction

Question 13

Speech problems in children are most likely to be observed in children with:

Answer 13

Hearing impairment

Question 14

Which of these methods has been used with some success in children with intellectual disabilities?

Answer 14

Augmentative Communication (AAC)

Question 15

Which part(s) of the ear are affected by a conductive hearing loss?

Answer 15

Outer Ear and Middle Ear

Question 16

Some approaches to the treatment of a language impairment include

Answer 16

Focused stimulation
Expansions
Scaffolding
Modeling

Question 17

Childhood stuttering

Answer 17

• -Cause is presently not known

- -Starts being observed in children between the ages of 2-4

Question 18

Which one listed below is a hypothesized explanation for Specific Language Impairments?

Answer 18

deficits in memory
Deficits in auditory processing
immature or incomplete grammatical development

Question 19

The language skills of children with intellectual disabilities are best described as:

Answer 19

Delayed but not deviant (disordered)

Question 20

American Sign Language

Answer 20

• -Is learned as a first language by many deaf children

- -Is a rule-governed language

Question 21

Research on kindergarten-aged children suggests that

Answer 21

Language play is a common

Question 22

The development of genderlects

Answer 22

Can be strongly influenced by parents and teachers

Question 23

The adolescent register is used

Answer 23

For marking the speaker as an adolescent.

Question 24

Emergent literacy refers to

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The child’s earliest awareness of the functions and forms of literacy

Question 25

Invented spelling is

Answer 25

Systematic, rule-governed spelling creating by developing writers

Question 26

The most dramatic growth in phonological awareness occurs in the early school years as a result of literacy instruction which emphasizes

Answer 26

Sound-symbol correspondence

Question 27

Being able to identify how a riddle works by referring to the language of the riddle itself is an example

Answer 27

Of metalinguistic awareness

Question 28

Decontextualized language is language that refers to

Answer 28

Phenomena that are not immediately present

Question 29

According to top-down models of reading

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Reading consists of generating and testing hypotheses

Question 30

A 5-year old child who can correctly identify the subject of a sentence like “The mailman delivered the envelope,” can be said to have

Answer 30

Metasyntactic awareness

Question 31

Specific Language Impairment | Disorder of language only

Answer 31

Lexicon Syntax Pragmatics

Question 32

Speech Impairment | Disorders of speech production

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1 Cleft Palate & Cleft Lip 2 Articulation 3 Fluency - Stuttering

Question 33

Evaluation of suspected speech & language difficulties in children

Answer 33

Fewer than 50 single words & no 2 word combinations by 24 months Failure to babble by 12 months Lack of conventional gestures by 1 year of age No spoken words by 18 months of age Any signs of regression

Question 34

Components of skilled reading

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- letter recognition - phoneme grapheme cor rules - word recognition - semantic knowledge - comprehension

Question 35

sli info:

Answer 35

they dont misuse rather they omit-theyre not aware of those morphemes to be used - diagnosis of exclusion(whats not affected-no hearing problems, no cognitive problems - delayed in language - start services later

Question 36

Cognitive Factors Affecting Language

Answer 36

Speed of Processing Inhibition Working Memory

Question 37

Risk Factors for Reading Difficulty

Answer 37

1) Environment where resources & expectation of literacy is not great. 2) Limited competency in spoken English 3) Cognitive deficits 4) Language specific problems 5) Reduced pre-literacy experiences 6) Family history of reading problems