Deck 12: Language Disabilities in School-Age Children and Youth

Question 1

Naturalistic intervention approaches teach specific language skills.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The focus of evidence-based practice is to plan interventions that support improved language and communicative functioning.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Juan experiences difficulty with recognizing shifts in conversational topic,managing the turn taking sequence in conversation and making relevant additions to the topic.These difficulties reflect a disorder of

A)Story comprehension
B)Metalinguistic skill
C)Use of discourse mechanisms and topic management
D)Use of personal narratives

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are more likely to experience SLI than students from mainstream backgrounds.

Question 5

Hakim is a 12 year old African American boy repeating the 6^th grade.Previously he repeated the third grade.Hakim has not been identified as needing special services but his language problems are evident.He performs poorly on reading comprehension tasks.His receptive and expressive grammatical skills are poor and his vocabulary is limited.His parents are at a loss.Hakim's test scores are not low enough to qualify him for special services and tutoring has not helped.A private speech-language pathologist has been hired to help.Her assessment revealed that Hakim's cultural and language differences interfere significantly with his academic performance.She also found that Hakim exhibits SLI in the areas of vocabulary knowledge,grammatical knowledge and use,sentence processing and narrative production.Moreover,because of repeated failures,Hakim's school performance is hampered by

A)Limited metaphorical skills
B)Poor self-esteem
C)Poor word retrieval
D)Limited conceptual knowledge

Question 6

The speech-language pathologist decides to participate in a science experiment on electricity with Thomas' sixth grade class.The speech-language pathologist hopes to gather information about Thomas' language and communication skills as part of an overall assessment process.This assessment procedure is referred to as

A)Probing
B)Language sample analysis
C)Participant interview
D)Participant observation

Question 7

Hakim's educational team decides that it is important to provide maximum contextual support to enhance his language and academic skills.They decide to use the following

A)Fourth-grade text books
B)First hand experiences,demonstrations and graphic representations
C)Audiotapes and videotapes of class lectures
D)Computer games

Question 8

Students encounter difficulty in school when discrepancies exist between their language abilities and the language demands of the curriculum.

Question 9

Communication breakdowns among school-age children with language impairments are more likely to occur at the sentence utterance)level than at the discourse level.

Question 10

In response to the request "Find the ball that's not blue",the child selected the blue ball.

A)The child most likely failed to attend to the small grammatical elements.
B)The child most likely did not comprehend the word order.
C)The child failed to comprehend the abstract words in the sentence.
D)The child is experiencing difficulty with word retrieval.

Question 11

The trend in speech-language pathology is to use naturalistic approaches in language intervention rather than structured approaches.

Question 12

The language students encounter in school is as complex as the language students encounter at home.

Question 13

John performs poorly on tasks of word definitions,identifying synonyms,recognizing the multiple meanings of words and correcting grammatical errors.Further investigation into this area may be enlightening in regards to

A)Phonological processing
B)Metaphorical language ability
C)Attention skills
D)Narrative production
E)Metalinguistic skill

Question 14

Reliance on test scores to the exclusion of other types of information to diagnose language impairment is an example of "best practices."

Question 15

In planning Hakim's intervention,the speech-language pathologist decides to

A)Use pull-out services to preteach vocabulary and grammatical skills needed for the next day's lessons
B)Collaborate with Hakim's teacher to modify how the curriculum is presented to increase Hakim's chances for success
C)Collaborate with Hakim's teacher to structure the content of the pull-out sessions to maximize the benefits of intervention
D)All of the above

Question 16

James heard the sentence "the player who replaced the team captain scored the winning point" and concluded that the 'team captain' scored the winning point.James is exhibiting difficulty with

A)Comprehending morphological rules signaled by phonological forms
B)Processing language meaning signaled by communicative functions
C)Processing relational meanings signaled by grammatical forms
D)All of the above

Question 17

The speech-language pathologist plans her language assessment for Raymond by learning about the language and processing demands of his curriculum,textbooks and examinations.The speech-language pathologist then compares Raymond's performance in class with the language skills he demonstrates during the speech and language evaluation to develop statements about his strengths and weaknesses and to recommend intervention strategies that will support Raymond's language learning and academic achievement.This approach to assessment is referred to as

A)The Dynamic Assessment Model
B)The Traditional Approach to Language Assessment
C)The Curriculum-Based Assessment Model
D)The speech-language pathologist's unique approach to language assessment

Question 18

Language assessment guides language intervention.

Question 19

Twelve-year old Kevin's conversations contain few specific nouns and many indefinite words and pronouns.He uses the nicknames "Buddy" to refer to all of his friends and uses gestures often when talking.He is doing poorly in school.He is repeating the 5^th grade and has yet to pass a single test in language arts,social studies or science.The speech-language pathologist decides to investigate the hypothesis that Kevin is experiencing a disorder of

A)Sentence comprehension and processing
B)Word retrieval
C)Grammatical rule use
D)Phonological production

Question 20

Students with SLI often present with a homogeneous language profile.

Question 21

A primary role of speech-language pathologists is to determine how the language demands of the curriculum either support or interfere with academic achievement,especially for students with SLI.