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Language and Students with LD or ADHD
Language and Students with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism
Language and Students with E/BD or Sensory Disabilities
Language and Students with Neuromotor Disabilities and Brain Injury
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Rashad has difficulty identifying the number of sounds within a spoken word. His problem can be described as one of: a. phonics. b. syntax. c. phonological awareness. d. reading.
What is phonological awareness
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Which of the following represents the best conclusion regarding the syntactic development of children with intellectual disabilities? a. Follows normal developmental sequence, but with significant delays. b. No differences between individuals with intellectual disabilities and typically developing children. c. Children with intellectual disabilities create unique syntactic structures and deviate significantly from the typical developmental sequence. d. Most children with intellectual disabilities do not get beyond the single word stage.
What is follows normal developmental sequence, but with significant delays.
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Which of the following statements best represents the findings of research on the prevalence of emotional and behavioral disorders in children with speech and language difficulties: a. Children with language disorders are at high risk for emotional and behavioral disorders. b. Children with speech disorders are more likely than those with primarily language disorders for emotional and behavioral disorders. c. Children with speech and language disorders are at no greater risk than typically developing children for emotional and behavioral disorders. d. Children with speech and language disorders rarely have attention deficit disorders.
What is children with language disorders are at high risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.
100
Which of the following descriptions applied to athetoid cerebral palsy: a. significant limitations in range of motion. Movement may be slow and jerky. b. simultaneous contraction of all muscle groups. c. difficulty balancing and a swaying walk. d. involuntary movements, including lack of head control, flailing of arms and legs, and writhing
What is involuntary movements, including lack of head control, flailing of arms and legs, and writhing
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The best conclusion regarding the use of augmentative communication is: a. spoken language use usually decreases after implementation. b. it always requires a lot of money to use. c. enhancing communication skills is often the biggest challenge. d. once you find the right device the problem is solved.
What is enhancing communication skills is often the biggest challenge.
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Which of the following statements is true of children with learning disabilities? a. They have trouble taking the lead in conversations. b. They are generally mute and do not participate in conversations. c. They have difficulty providing accurate descriptions to a partner d. All of the above e. A and C only
What is A and C only
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Research on the conversational competence of individuals with intellectual disabilities has found that: a. they often fail to take their turn in a conversation b. they typically do not make a significant contribution to the interaction. c. they are good at repairing conversational breakdowns. d. they often extend the conversation by adding new information to what has been said.
What is they typically do not make a significant contribution to the interaction.
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Research on the speech and language of children with emotional and behavioral disorders difficulties has found: a. No greater risk for speech and language difficulties than other children. b. High prevalence of speech and language difficulties among children in a clinical setting but not those in school settings. c. No higher risk for speech and language difficulties among children with less severe emotional and behavioral disorders. d. High prevalence of speech and language difficulties among children in both clinical and school settings.
What is high prevalence of speech and language difficulties among children in both clinical and school settings.
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Which of the following statements best describes the language abilities of children with cerebral palsy: a. speech intelligibility is a problem for a majority of these children. b. they have significant delays in the development of syntactic skills. c. receptive language usually lags behind language production. d. speech intelligibility is a relative strength.
What is speech intelligibility is a problem for a majority of these children.
200
Blissymbols are an example of a: a. communicative device. b. assessment procedure. c. sign language. d. representational system.
What is representational system.
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Research has found that children with phonological awareness difficulties: a. have no more reading problems than other children. b. are usually hearing impaired. c. always have articulation problems. d. are more likely than others to have reading difficulties.
What is are more likely than others to have reading difficulties.
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The language of children with Williams Syndrome has been found to differ from that of other children with intellectual disabilities in which of the following ways: a. significant strengths in vocabulary and syntax. b. significant strengths in communication skills. c. slower acquisition of words. d. more difficulty with the acquisition of sounds (phonology).
What is significant strengths in vocabulary and syntax.
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Mary has a hearing loss in the 60–70 dB range. Her hearing impairment is bilateral and has been diagnosed as a sensorineural loss which was congenital. Which of the following would most likely describe her educational prognosis? a. minimal language delays; no accommodations necessary b. severe educational problems due to intellectual disabilities c. likely to make rapid educational progress after correction with hearing aid d. often delayed language and speech; require classroom accommodations
What is often delayed language and speech; require classroom accommodations
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The “cocktail” chatter phenomenon, reported in some children with spins bifida, is characterized by: a. slurring of speech similar to that which occurs with excessive alcohol consumption. b. “chatty” conversations that remain at a superficial level. c. excessively loud talking. d. inappropriate initiation of interactions with others.
What is “chatty” conversations that remain at a superficial level.
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Place the following in order of "guessability" from most easily guessed (1) to least easily guessed (3): _____ Blissymbols _____ color photos _____ black and white drawings
What is 3/1/2
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Research on the syntactic skills of children with learning disabilities has found that: a. Few students with learning disabilities have difficulty understanding or using syntax. b. Students with learning disabilities often have difficulty understanding sentences that contain relative clauses and use negation. c. Young children with learning disabilities often do not follow the typical sequence of syntactic development. d. Young children with learning disabilities actually develop syntactic skills more quickly than their peers.
What is students with learning disabilities often have difficulty understanding sentences that
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Current thinking regarding the use of echolalia by autistic children holds that: a. echolalia may represent an attempt to communicate. b. echolalia is non-productive and should be discouraged. c. echolalia could be used as the basis for training communicative interaction. d. Both A and C
What is both A and C
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Which of the following statements best represents the research on the early development of blind children? a. Parents rarely interact with their blind child. b. The timing and sequence of language development is similar to that of sighted children. c. There are no differences between blind and sighted children in either cognitive or semantic development. d. Blind children develop language skills significantly more slowly than sighted children.
What is the timing and sequence of language development is similar to that of sighted children.
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Which of the following statements best describes the language skills of children with traumatic brain injury? a. language functions rarely recover in this population. b there is little variability in language skills in this population. c. there is often marked improvement in language skills although problems may persist. d. problems are usually limited to speech production.
What is there is often marked improvement in language skills although problems may persist.
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Which of the following statements best represents current thinking regarding the issue of prerequisites to AAC usage? a. It is important to assess skills such as language and cognitive abilities in order to develop an individual’s AAC system. b. Individuals who can not move their arms can not benefit from AAC systems. c. Individuals must have exhibited some spoken language in order to be candidates for AAC systems. d. Children who have not yet reached stage V of Piaget’s levels of cognitive development can not benefit from the use of AAC systems.
What is it is important to assess skills such as language and cognitive abilities in order to develop an individual’s AAC system.
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Research on phonological awareness instruction has found that: a. Phonological instruction can improve the phonological skills of students with reading disabilities. b.Phonological training programs that use technology (such as Fast ForWord) are clearly superior to other programs. c. There is no evidence that phonological training programs can enhance phonological skills. d. Phonological skills can only be successfully taught in an intensive, one-on-one format.\
What is phonological instruction can improve the phonological skills of students with reading disabilities.
500
5 Studies that have compared the syntactic development of individuals with autism to that of other individuals with disabilities have found that the individuals with autism: a. have fewer problems with syntax than do children with Down syndrome. b. have more difficulty applying their skills in social situations. c. have a less pervasive language problem than children with dysphasia. d. have fewer individual differences in development than do children with intellectual disabilities
What is have more difficulty applying their skills in social situations.
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When compared to parents of sighted children, parents of young children with severe visual impairments have been found to: a. use more requests for action and commands. b. provide more detailed information about objects. c. made more requests for information from their child. d. All of the above e. A and B only
What is use more requests for action and commands.
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Information about an individual child’s language development should be used to: a. determine if the child can benefit from intervention. b. prescribe steps in intervening with a specific language skill. c. develop intervention approaches based on normal language development. d. plan instructional goals.
What is plan instructional goals.
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5 The best strategy for selection of vocabulary to be included in an AAC user’s system is to: a. select vocabulary that the teacher identifies as important. b. select vocabulary that is needed in the environments in which the user will function. c. select vocabulary from word lists developed for people with intellectual disabilities. d. select vocabulary from the first 50 word developmental data.
What is select vocabulary that is needed in the environments in which the user will function