Deck 6: Language and Children With Intellectual Disabilities

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

A) IQ
B) MA
C) CA
D) LA

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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).

Question 4

Intellectual disabilities are classified by origin. Which term best describes the cause of Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome?

A) perinatal
B) prenatal
C) genetic
D) postnatal

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

A) receptive is better than expressive language
B) expressive is better than receptive language
C) expressive and receptive language equal
D) receptive and expressive language WNL

Question 9

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

A) genetic in nature
B) curable with medical intervention
C) profoundly severe, requiring institutionalization
D) organic in nature

Question 10

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Question 11

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?

A) intellectual competence
B) adaptive behavior
C) cognitive dissonance
D) maladaptive behavior

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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Question 14

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

Question 15

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Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

What is meant by the term "adaptive behaviors"?

Question 20

Children with mild intellectual impairments are able to modify their language when dealing with other
children who are more impaired than they are.

Question 21

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

Question 22

Children with severe intellectual disability are more likely to adopt assertive roles in conversation. This
suggests that they don't understand what is being said to them.

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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Question 26

Individuals with intellectual disabilities are slower at encoding incoming information than MA matched
peers.

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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