Stages
What stage does the child exhibit the following:
A. Birth-3 Months
B. 3-6 Months
C. 6-8 Months
D. 8-10 Months
A. Birth-3
What is the most un-naturalistic type of treatment? what is the most naturalistic?
un-naturalistic: clinician-directed
naturalistic: client-directed
Which of the following is not an outcome of collaboration?
A. Improve child outcomes
B. Streamline resources and time
C. Identify strengths and weaknesses
D. Facilitate positive work environment
C. Identify strengths and weaknesses
You have been asked to give a workshop to a group of parents of infants who attend a developmental nursery. The infants are between 1 and 10 months of age. Most of the parents do not have much money or access to toys and objects, but you are told that they do spend plenty of time with their babies. You are asked to speak about what specifically these parents can do to successfully interact with their infants in daily routines, such as bathing, dressing, and eating. You will tell these parents which of the following?
A. When your baby starts to cry, wait 3-4 minutes before you respond; this will teach the baby independence and motivate him to express himself in words later on.
B. Ideally, speak to the baby in utterances that are higher pitched and with greater pitch fluctuations than ordinary speech.
C. Babies do not benefit from activities used to build turn-taking skills until they are 2 years old, so do not bother with games that focus on turn-taking.
D. Babies do not usually say their first word until 18 months of age, so do not worry if your child is 12 months old and not saying any words.
B. higher pitch and greater pitch fluctuations represent CDS
A child is currently 8 months old, they were born 8 weeks premature. What is there developmental age? Why is this important?
6 months
Developmental age is important for when we compare children to where they should be functioning
What stage does a child exhibit the following: - Understands up to 10 words, such as no, bye-bye, pat-a-cake, hot, understands one simple directions like “sit down” especially when command is accompianed by gesture
A. Birth-3
B. 3-6 Months
C. 10-12 Months
D. 8-10 Months
C. 10-12 Months
Which of the following is not a test for children 0-5 years?
A. MacArthur CDI
B. PPVT
C. WAB
D. CSBS DP
C. WAB- Western Aphasia Battery
Which of the following is not a literacy skill?
A. print awareness
b. phonological awareness
c. literacy motivation
d. social communication
d. social communication
You are working in a school and are told that a new child with an IEP has transferred to your school and will be needing language intervention. On her IEP, it states that she has a "pragmatic language disorder". Which one of the following problems are you MOST likely to see in this student?
A. Difficulties in allowing a conversational partner to have a turn
B. Problems using complex and compound sentences
C. Vocabulary deficits
D. Word retrieval problems
A. Difficulties in allowing a conversational partner to have a turn
What tx theory emphasized performance and competence? It was championed by B.F. Skinner?
Behavioral
What are the 3 periods of language development that we discussed in Fallon's class? What are the hallmarks of each stage?
1. Perlocutionary: non-intentional behavior, -8 months
2. Illocutionary: 9-10 months, behavior is intentional
3. Locutionary: 10-12 months, first true words
Aside from standardized tests, name 2 other methods for collecting information on a child's language abilities.
Natural observations
Language sample analysis
Which form of counseling emphasizes accurately understanding the individual, a client-centered approach, and empathetic, non-judgemental communication?
A. informal counseling
b. personal adjustment counseling
c. humanistic counseling
d. psychological counseling
c. humanistic counseling
Categorize the following into form, content, use: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
form: phonology, morphology, syntax
content: semantics
use: pragmatics
places the child at risk for a comm. disorder
less time to interact and bond with parents
painful procedures can lead to:
tactile defensiveness
oral defensiveness
trauma
tissue damage
At what age does a child exhibit the following:
A. 4-5
B. 3-4
C. 5-6
D. 1-2
B. 3-4
What is MLU? How is it calculated?
What is type token ratio? how is it calculated?
MLU= Mean Length of Utterance
Formula= #of morphemes/# of utterances
TTR= Measure of vocabulary variation in a child's speech
TTR= # of new words/tnw
Which of the following is NOT a goal of counseling?
a. understand their situation clearly
b. identify and acknowledge their feelings
c. make appropriate diagnosis
d. make personally appropriate decisions
c. make appropriate diagnosis
Parents bring their son Derek to you. He is 30 months old and only says a few words. The pediatrician has told them to not worry and just give Derek time. But Derek's parents are still concerned. The best recommendation you could give them would be:
A. Do nothing and follow the pediatrician's recommendation to give him time to develop.
B. Give them a home stimulation program, and tell them to come back in a year for a re-evaluation.
C. Recommend an immediate, full evaluation of Derek's language skills.
D. Send Derek and his parents to a psychologist for an evaluation of his cognitive skills.
C. Recommend an immediate, full evaluation of Derek's language skills.
At 30 months old, Derek should be saying 200-300 words.
What is the PAM intervention? What is it used for?
Pacifier Activated Music player with mother's voice
- experimental group improved feeding, had shorter hospital stays, and better outcomes
A 3-Year old child is new on your caseload. The child follows simple 1-step directions, points to objects/pictures named, asks simple questions, and is beginning to put words together. Is this child typically developing?
No, this child is approx. 1 year behind in development. At age 3, the child should follow 2-step directions, understand simple opposites, easily comprehend new words, put three words together, ask why questions, and understand simple prepositions.
What tx strategies might be used with a linguistic client?
facilitative play
parallel talk
self-talk
expansions
extensions
enhanced mileu teaching
script therapy
What is the definition of emergent literacy?
how children first interact with print and books even before they can read and write
Which of the following is commonly used as a screening measure to evaluate communication and symbolic abilities?
A. The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
B. MacArthur Communicative Developmental Inventories (CDI)
C. Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales: Developmental Profile (CSBS DP)
D. Clinical Evaluation of Language Scales – Preschool – 2 (CELF-P-2)
C. Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales: Developmental Profile (CSBS DP)
What are the 3 key concepts in child-centered approaches to therapy?
A. wait, listen, expand
B. wait, intervene, correct
C. wait, interpret, respond
D. sing, sang, song
C.
1. wait for the client to initate a behavior
2. interpret the behavior as communicative
3. respond to the behavior with a communicative intent