For an older school-age student, the SLP typically looks for embedded literacy
opportunities to teach phonological awareness.
The prevalence of children diagnosed with SLI is 7%.
The knowledge, beliefs, and practices that make up Deaf culture are linked to spoken
English.
The words “and, but, or” are examples of adjectives.
CRT uses a strategy called sentence combining which is an intervention appropriate for
school-aged students who need to improve sentence complexity.
The Learning to Listen (LTL) technique teaches parents to use a slower rate, increased
pitch, and hand cues during parent”child play interactions.
AAC is thought to reduce speech development.
The SCERTS approach is based on development and social interaction theory
emphasizing ecological validity.
An advantage of criterion-referenced tests is that the assessments are efficient to
administer.
An example of an embedded literacy opportunity would be to have students clap out
syllables to words that you show them on a flashcard.
Most individuals who use General American Dialect rarely exhibit code switching.
If a test has a mean of 50 (standard deviation of 10) and the student obtains a standard
score of 45; results suggest the student will require language intervention.
Intellectual disability refers to individuals with core deficits encompassing both
intellectual and social domains.
A cut-off of 1.25 standard deviations below the mean is often considered the decision
point for providing language intervention.
When the hearing loss occurs in the outer and middle ear, it is called a conductive loss
and is typically the result of a medical problem such as a fluid-filled middle ear or
damage such as a perforated eardrum.
Self-talk is when the adult describes the child’s actions.
Mainstreaming means that children with disabilities are educated in the same context as
their nondisabled peers throughout the day.
Individuals with ID often have a reduced reaction time in response to stimuli.
Auditory plasticity means that despite damage or disease, the auditory system can
develop appropriately with early stimulation.
The question, “Does the child demonstrate the mental skills that impact language
development?” relates to this aspect of communication.
a. Cognitive
b. Early Pragmatic
c. Syntactical
d. Lexical
e. Later Discourse
Clinical practitioners who work with children who have language impairments need
a. the ability to synthesize information.
b. the ability to weigh scientific evidence.
c. the ability to see connections between basic principles.
d. all of the above.
Children with autism (ASD) have a number of language impairments that often include
language delay and
a. Dyslexia
b. Articulation
c. Dysphonia
d. Echolalia
Joint visual attention is most closely aligned with which theoretical perspective?
a. Skinner/Behaviorist
b. Piaget/Cognitive Constructivist
c. Vygotsky/Social Interactionist
d. Brunner/Discovery Learning
Choose the best answer. This type of assessment has statistical properties that allow the
assessor to compare the individual’s performance to that of his or her chronological peer
group.
a. Norm referenced
b. Criterion referenced
c. Dynamic assessment
d. All of the above
The assessment protocol for a child suspected of having ASD includes an evaluation of
all of the following, except
a. Hearing.
b. Relationship of the parents.
c. Oral-motor skills and speech production.
d. Both verbal and nonverbal communication functions.
e. Observation of the child’s ability during a variety of activities.
The use of easy, small steps gradually to help the child approximate the goal behavior is
known as
a. Prompts.
b. Shaping.
c. Fading.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Children with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate (a) an impairment of social
interaction, (b) significant communication impairment, and (c) unusual stereotypic or
repetitive behaviors before the age of 5 years.
Choose the best answer. This type of assessment does not include clinician-developed
protocols
a. Norm referenced
b. Criterion referenced
c. Dynamic assessment
d. All of the above
Choose the best answer. This type of assessment is the often used to monitor student
progress during intervention.
a. Norm referenced
b. Criterion referenced
c. Dynamic assessment
d. All of the above
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) draws strongly from behavioral theory and has
Level I research data supporting its use.
High-quality discourse with parents, teachers, family members and others develops a
child’s
a. Phonological awareness.
b. Print and alphabetic concepts.
c. Oral language skills.
d. Phonics.
Knowing letter names is a part of which emergent literacy domain
a. Phonological awareness.
b. Print and alphabetic concepts.
c. Oral language skills.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above
A classroom based literacy intervention is likely to include
a. Looking at the educational goals set for the class
b. Giving a norm-referenced assessment
c. Looking at the child’s written work
d. A and B
e. A and C
f. All of the above
The Learning to Listen (LTL) technique trains parents to
a. Teach their child to use baby signs.
b. Read storybooks to their child.
c. Play with their child using toys paired with certain sounds.
d. A, B, and C.
e. B and C only.
Research indicates that professionals can improve students’ reading comprehension
through vocabulary building and by helping students learn comprehension meta-skills
such as
a. Writing out vocabulary
b. Teaching meta-strategies
c. Summarization.
d. Completing fill-in-the-blank questions
e. A and D
f. B and C
g. All of the above.
I want my middle-school student to focus on dialogic speech in written text, I point out
which sentence?
a. I pushed the wagon.
b. “Oh, oh!” She said.
c. And then the boy went home. The end!
d. She thought she would take a basket of food to grandmother’s house.
e. None of the above represent dialogic speech.
A rating scale is helpful for progress monitoring because
a. It provides a norm-referenced score
b. It compares the child’s performance to other children
c. Helps diagnose ASD
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The extent to which a specific intervention is a cost effective means to rehabilitate a
communication disorder is known as
a. Efficacy
b. Effectiveness
c. Efficiency
d. None of the above
e. All of the above
A student with ID who has developed some ineffective social interaction patters (e.g.,
asking the same question repeatedly) would be an example of
a. Code-switching
b. A language delay.
c. A language difference.
d. Functional communication
e. A and D.
Intervention that focuses on highlighting the semantic transparency of vocabulary and
choosing Tier 2 level vocabulary with older children relates to
a. Form.
b. Content.
c. Use.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Dosage refers to
a. The amount of sessions approved by the child’s insurance carrier
b. The number of times the target was introduced each session
c. How frequently the intervention occurred over a period of time
d. The number of times the SLP reinforces the child for a correct response
e. B and C
f. All of the above
An assessment that measures a child’s ability to repeat phonemes in response to the
adult’s request is
a. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory.
b. The Cottage Acquisition Scales for Listening, Language, and Speech (CASLLS).
c. The Ling Six Sound Test.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
Language analysis is most frequently used to determine appropriate linguistic targets
for children who are having problems in this Subdomain.
a. Subdomain 1: Early Pragmatics
b. Subdomain 2: Vocabulary
c. Subdomain 3: Early Word Combinations
d. Subdomain 4: Morphosyntax
e. Subdomain 5: Discourse
The intervention targets for (AAC) approach typically include all the below except
a. Language learning in clinician-directed academic skill-related activities
b. Increased use of multiple modes of communication.
c. Increased participation in communicative interactions.
d. Increased interactions with peers in a variety of different environments.
e. All of the above.
The infant notices the family pet, the parent says “Doggie, that’s our doggie!” Which
social interactionist behavior best describes what the parent is doing?
a. Joint visual attention
b. Motherese
c. Scripting
d. Scaffolding
e. Coordinating attention
f. Object permanence
Children under age 4 who demonstrate late language emergence
a. Rarely are diagnosed with SLI at later ages
b. Have environmental deprivation
c. Do not need intervention
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
There is research evidence that ASD may be caused by genetic factors along with
a. Poor parenting
b. Environmental factors
c. Pharmacology
d. All of the above
Potential AAC assessment team members is likely to include all of the following,
except
a. Parents/family.
b. Speech-language pathologist.
c. Teacher.
d. School principal.
e. Occupational therapist.
A developmental sequence of phonological awareness could be articulated as
a. Individual phoneme awareness to syllable- and- word level awareness to blending
and segmenting words.
b. Blending and segmenting words to word and syllable level to awareness of individual
phonemes.
c. Word- and syllable-level awareness to awareness of individual phonemes to blending
and segmenting words.
d. Letter-sound correspondence
e. Alphabetic awareness to correct spelling
Intervention stimuli used to encourage a child to talk can be
a. Pictures, objects, or computers.
b. Nonlinguistic or linguistic.
c. Making eye contact.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
In adult-directed intervention, the adult
a. Chooses the stimulus items.
b. Regulates how the child responds.
c. Prompts responses through pointing, modeling, or use of questions.
d. Provides direct feedback.
e. A and B
f. All of the above.
Macrostructure is a feature of narratives that includes all of the following, except
a. Grammar
b. Organization
c. Episode structure
d. Initiating event
e. Story consequence
A facilitation technique in which the adult deconstructs a sentence into its separate
components in known as
a. Language expansions.
b. Languages extensions.
c. Buildup/breakdown.
d. None of the above.
e. All of the above
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