Exam 6: Language and Children With Intellectual Disabilities

What is "the ability to act as independently and responsibly as other people of the same age and cultural background in everyday life" referring to?

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Describe the typical language skills of a child with Down Syndrome.

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General profile includes: (a) unbalanced receptive and expressive skills, with comprehension abilities being higher; (b) particular difficulty with syntactic and morphological aspects of language; (c) deficits in phonological awareness & auditory-verbal memory; (d) difficulty with higher-level pragmatic skills; (e) deficits in understanding and using abstract language; (f) visual & sensory processing deficits; and (g) relative weakness in expressive language skills, particularly syntax (e.g., produce fewer grammatical function words-copula & auxiliary "be," articles, & prepositions; produce fewer lexical verbs and bound morphemes).

In barrier studies, adolescents with intellectual disabilities consistently provide too much information.

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Why do people with intellectual impairments often show signs of learned helplessness?

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What is meant by the term "adaptive behaviors"?

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Not all children with intellectual disabilities will show difficulties in language tasks.

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Question 6

The universally agreed definition of intellectual disabilities is "a disability characterized by significant limitations in intellectual function and adaptive behaviors."

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What role do MA, LA, and CA have in describing the language of children with intellectual disability? Give an example where these concepts are critically important.

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Turn taking difficulties are not considered especially typical of children with intellectual impairment.

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Question 9

An intellectual disability found in siblings, from lower socio-economic levels, and normal physical appearance are most likely…

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Question 10

Which of the following scores expresses a person's cognitive abilities?

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Question 11

What are the two major categories of intellectual disability? Give examples of each.

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Question 12

Explore the delay-difference debate in light of eligibility for services in the public schools.

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Question 13

Which of the following statements best describes the language profile of a person with Down syndrome?

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People with organic intellectual impairment are less likely to have IQs below 50 than people with familial intellectual impairment.

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Question 15

Why is it important to understand the underlying cause of an intellectual disability?

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Discuss the benefits and limitations of using IQ scores to determine disability.

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What are the limitations and benefits for using IQ tests to determine intellectual disabilities?

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Children with Down syndrome produce the same number and type of speech acts as typically developing children but at a rate which is delayed.

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Children with intellectual impairments are excluded from the U.S. federal definition of learning disability.

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What is "the ability to act as independently and responsibly as other people of the same age and cultural background in everyday life" referring to?

Describe the typical language skills of a child with Down Syndrome.

In barrier studies, adolescents with intellectual disabilities consistently provide too much information.

Why do people with intellectual impairments often show signs of learned helplessness?

What is meant by the term "adaptive behaviors"?

Not all children with intellectual disabilities will show difficulties in language tasks.

The universally agreed definition of intellectual disabilities is "a disability characterized by significant limitations in intellectual function and adaptive behaviors."

What role do MA, LA, and CA have in describing the language of children with intellectual disability? Give an example where these concepts are critically important.

Turn taking difficulties are not considered especially typical of children with intellectual impairment.

An intellectual disability found in siblings, from lower socio-economic levels, and normal physical appearance are most likely…

Which of the following scores expresses a person's cognitive abilities?

What are the two major categories of intellectual disability? Give examples of each.

Explore the delay-difference debate in light of eligibility for services in the public schools.

Which of the following statements best describes the language profile of a person with Down syndrome?

People with organic intellectual impairment are less likely to have IQs below 50 than people with familial intellectual impairment.

Why is it important to understand the underlying cause of an intellectual disability?

Discuss the benefits and limitations of using IQ scores to determine disability.

What are the limitations and benefits for using IQ tests to determine intellectual disabilities?

Children with Down syndrome produce the same number and type of speech acts as typically developing children but at a rate which is delayed.

Children with intellectual impairments are excluded from the U.S. federal definition of learning disability.

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