Deck 11: Language and Students With Sensory Disabilities

Question 1

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Students with moderate hearing losses could be expected to have difficulty hearing in noisy environments or when speech is not directed right at them

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following methods of instruction would be most likely to be used in a program that strongly emphasized the oral approach to deaf education?

A) speechreading
B) auditory training
C) American Sign Language
D) All of the above
E) A and B only

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Deaf persons can be expected to make errors in English syntax that are not often found among hearing persons.

Question 5

Conductive hearing loss is caused by damage to structures that transmit sound from the ear to the brain.

Question 6

The most common cause of conductive hearing loss is __________________.

Question 7

Over the years, there have been changes in our understanding of the cognitive abilities of deaf persons. Currently, researchers who have studied the relationship between severe hearing impairments and cognitive development generally agree that:

A) deaf children think in more concrete terms.
B) deaf children develop many meaningless concepts.
C) there are few differences in either the sequence or rate of cognitive development of deaf children.
D) most deaf persons are mentally retarded.

Question 8

Studies of the educational performance of deaf persons have generally found:

A) significant deficiencies in reading and writing.
B) deaf children are usually one to two years ahead of others in reading.
C) deaf children lack the cognitive ability to be academically successful.
D) no deficiencies in reading and writing.

Question 9

It is not unusual for individuals with severe visual impairments to have some subtle differences in nonverbal communication.

Question 10

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.

Question 11

A ____________ person is one whose hearing disability precludes successful processing of linguistic information through audition.

Question 12

Blind persons frequently have more developed language skills.

Question 13

Research has demonstrated that the oral approach to instruction leads to the best outcomes for deaf persons.

Question 14

Research on the emergence of manual language in the deaf indicates that:

A) deaf persons are able to acquire spoken language at the same rate as hearing children.
B) language development may be intact in deaf persons.
C) deaf children need to be taught to sign or they will never communicate.
D) deaf persons are significantly delayed in the development of language.

Question 15

Most researchers today agree that deaf persons have significantly lower intellectual abilities than hearing persons.

Question 16

Research has found that deaf persons compensate for their lack of hearing through enhanced visual skills

Question 17

Studies of the educational performance of deaf persons have generally found that their achievement is similar to that of hearing persons.

Question 18

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

Question 19

Researchers who have studied the early vocal production of babies with severe hearing impairments have found:

A) no differences from the early vocal productions of hearing babies.
B) more rapid early development in babies with hearing impairments.
C) no vocal production in babies with severe hearing impairments.
D) differences in babbling.

Question 20

Although young children with hearing impairments may experience significant difficulty with reading, older students generally catch up with their hearing peers.

Question 21

Contrast the goals and the methods of the oral versus the manual approach to language instruction of hearing impaired children.

Question 22

Of all of the elements of language, ___________ development appears to be relatively intact in deaf persons.

Question 23

Manual-language development in children who are deaf follows a developmental course that is _________ to spoken language development in hearing children.

Question 24

Describe classroom accommodations and instructional methods that might be needed to support a child who has recently received cochlear implants.

Question 25

List three differences in nonverbal communication that have been identified in blind children:

Question 26

What effect may factors such as early experiences, cognitive development, and parent-child interaction have on the language development of children with serious visual impairments?

Question 27

The two factors most predictive of the educational achievement of deaf persons are ____________ and _________________.