Exam 7: Communication and Learning Disorders

 Which of the following is NOT a critical element for a successful beginning reading program?

 Julia's father asked her to go to her bedroom to select a book that they could read together. Julia went upstairs to her bedroom and chose her favorite book from her bookshelf. On her way back downstairs, Julia's mother asked her what she was doing. Julia's response was "Book read." Based on this description, Julia may meet the criteria for ____.

 The planum temporale in individuals with reading disorders is ____.

 Which statement regarding gender differences in rates of communication disorders is true?

 What kind of deficits might a parent or teacher notice in a child who has a writing disorder?

 Which intervention would be least likely to be used with a child with a learning disorder?

 Discuss the two major findings that implicate specific biological underpinnings of reading disorders.

 Discuss why children with learning disorders might display more acting out behaviors at school and the behavioral strategies used.

 Diagnostic criteria for specific learning disorder include all of the following EXCEPT ____.

 What is meant by a "perceptual map" for language and how does it develop?

 Nonverbal learning disabilities are characteristic of children who perform worse at ____ than reading.

 Dyslexia refers to ____.

 Decoding can be described as ____.

 Deficits in phonological awareness are diagnosed when a child ____.

 Summarize the use of computer-assisted learning for specific learning disorders.

 Almost ________ of children who stutter before the age of 5 will no longer stutter once they have been in school for about a year.

 A child with a writing disorder has the most difficulty with ____.

 By mid-to-late adolescence, most children with communication disorders ____.

 To see if a child has phonological awareness, a teacher might ____.

 The cause of most learning disorders is ____.