CT #7

What two mechanisms are important to facilitate language from the social-interactionist model?

• Using parallel talk and using self-talk

• Following the child's lead and take one turn at a time

• Caregiver engagement and child responsiveness

• Caregiver responsiveness and child engagement

Peek-a-boo is an example of which technique?

• language modeling

• interaction promoting

• child-oriented

• adult-oriented

From a social-interactionist perspective, which are likely responsible for a language impairment?

• Difficulties repeating and remembering information.

• Difficulties recognizing emotions and perspective taking.

• Difficulties assimilating and organizing information.

• Difficulties producing sounds and processing phonological units.

Billy is two and a half years of age and produces one word utterances only. During a dynamic assessment session, the clinician provided 2-word utterance models for a child. In that session, Billy imitated two of the clinician’s 2-word combinations? This tells us that:

• Billy displayed a zone of proximal development.

• Billy is a dynamic learner.

• Billy will most likely not need intervention.

• Billy may need a hearing test.

Preschoolers who have attended speech-language services are more likely to have these risk factors:

• Male, younger siblings, ongoing hearing problems

• Maternal psychological well-being, younger siblings, ongoing hearing problems

• Male, persistent temperament, ongoing hearing problems

• Male, reactive temperament, ongoing hearing problems