General
What is the study of word structure?
Morphology
Jonathan is a 5-year-old boy with a language impairment. He has a German shepherd at home named Angel. The neighbors have a Rottweiler, and his grandma has a poodle. But Jonathan only calls Angel a "dog,"he does not use the word "dog" to refer to his neighbor's Rottweiler or his grandmother's poodle. We can say that Jonathan is demonstrating the pattern of
What is underextension?
What disorder is defined by the DSM-V as "persistent deficits in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts”
Autism Spectrum Disorder
What type of assessment provides clinicians with a quantitative means of comparing the child's performance to the performance of large groups of children in a similar age category?
Standardized Assessment
The executive function skill are you looking to improve if you have a student repeat increasingly long strings of nonsense syllables
What is working memory
In semantics, what is word knowledge dependent on?
World knowledge
Justin is a 7-year-old second-grade child who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Since he was a toddler, he has had language difficulties. He has just transferred to your school district, and speech-language services have been recommended. After reading over the file or reports, you see that the previous SLP says, among other things, that Justin's language sample showed difficulty with forms, such as -er (bigger), and -est (biggest). Problems with these forms reflect poor ------- skills
morphological skills
What are the 2 "icebergs" in the Dual Iceberg Model of SLI?
1. Language Deficits
2. Cognitive Processing/Executive Functioning Deficits
Type of play where children are more interested in each other than in the toys they are using.
Associative play
These techniques are both used to build expressive language skills by restating the child's utterance with adult grammar and/or adding new, related information.
What is expansion and extension?
What kind of sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined by a comma and a conjunction or semicolon?
Compound sentence
You are assessing the expressive language skills of a 4-year-old with delayed language. One of the things he says is "My birthday party was fun--we ate cake and cookies!" This would count as words, morphemes.
What is 10 words, 11 morphemes.
What condition presents with language deficits that are delayed rather than deviant
Intellectual Disability
"Late talkers" are characterized by a significant language delay at what age?
24-30 months
During a designed play activity, the clinician focuses on a particular language structure, uses various stimulus materials and talks about them while repeatedly modeling the correct structure but DOES NOT correct the child’s incorrect responses.
What is focused stimulation?
What kind of morpheme is suffixes only and change the state or increase precision of a free morpheme?
Inflectional morpheme
You move to a new elementary school and begin to see the children on the caseload at this school. One child you are treating shows slow, writhing, involuntary movements. Her medical history will most likely report this type of cerebral palsy.
What is Athetoid?
What disorder is telegraphic speech associated with?
SLI
When assessing Elementary-age children, clinicians use pictures, toys, and questions to assess production of plurals to assess
Morphological skills
To improve literacy skills, these four specific phonological awareness skills are targeted in therapy, as these are foundational for literacy.
What is rhyming, syllable awareness, phoneme isolation, sound blending?
What are the two types of processing according to the Information Processing Theory?
1. Phonological
2. Temporal Auditory
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, saying "He is a boy, after all, and they usually develop language more slowly." But Derek's parents are still concerned. The red flag is . Based on this the best recommendation you could give them would be:
1. A 30 months of age, the child should be saying 200-300 words.
2. Recommend an immediate, full evaluation of Derek's language skills
What lobe of the brain do children with SLI most commonly have abnormalities in?
Frontal lobe
At-risk students who are struggling in the classroom are given increasing amounts of targeted individual and small-group support within the classroom setting before a special education referral is made through this
Response to Intervention
The Story Grammar Marker is commonly used with children with language disorders who have difficulty with narrative macrostructure, which includes the story grammar components of
Characters, setting, initiating events, internal response, plan or goals, attempts, direct consequences, conclusion/resolution