Exam 7: Communication and Learning Disorders

 Which factor is least likely to lead to increased resiliency and adaptation in children with learning disorders?

 Differentiate between the terms learning disabilities, communication disorders, and specific learning disorder.

 The most common underlying feature associated with reading disorders is ____.

 Typical errors students with SLD with impairment in reading make include all of the following EXCEPT ____.

 Language functions are housed primarily in the ____.

 The age at which stuttering tends to recede is around ____.

 The basic sounds that make up a language are called ________.

 Deficits in ____ are a chief reason that most children with communication and learning disorders have problems in learning to read and spell.

 When a developmental language problem involves articulation or sound production rather than word knowledge, it is typically known as a __________________ disorder.

 Strauss and Werner (1943) pointed out that children learn in their own individual ways. List the three important concepts developed from their idea that continues to influence the field to this day.

 ____ is one of the best predictors of school performance and overall intelligence.

 A child with a mathematics disorder would most likely have difficulty with ____.

 Language functions are housed primarily in which lobe of the brain?

 What particular difficulties and errors might suggest that a child has a reading disorder?

 Which of the following is a category of learning disorders?