Final Review Questions

Which considerations should be taken when working with adolescent clients with moderate to severe disabilities?

• Foster functional social discourse

• Foster functional literacy

• Foster independence

• All of these choices

Providing therapy using two languages at the same time will not be confusing to children.

• True

• False

Accuracy is:

               

•          Recognizing and decoding words correctly.    

• The pitch, tone, volume, emphasis, and rhythm in speech or oral reading.    

• Mirrors spoken language.         

Students develop a mental image of what is described in the text when they:

• Inference

• Visualize

• Monitor, Clarify, and Fix Up

• None of these

The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) suggests the following areas be examined to ensure a comprehensive educational dyslexia assessment: phonological awareness, phonological/language-based memory, rapid automatic naming, receptive vocabulary, phonics and de-coding abilities, decoding of both reading and nonsense words,  oral reading fluency, spelling and writing of single words, sentences, paragraphs.

• True

• False

When students generate information that is important to constructing meaning but that is missing from, or not explicitly stated in, the text they are: 

• Visualizing

• Inferencing

• Questioning

When assessing these domains of language we can gather a spontaneous speech sample and identify T-units and conduct a complex sentence analysis.

• Morphology and Syntax

• Semantics and Pragmatics

• Phonology and Pragmatics

When working on vocabulary with children we should:

• provide a student friendly definition

• provide examples of the words in context

• ask questions

• all of the above

During an evaluation, you assess conversational skills, turn taking, and ability to take another's perspective. What subcomponent of language is being evaluated?

• Semantics

• Phonology

• Pragmatics/Discourse

• Syntax

Select the corresponding language stage: Language normally learned when children are in the adolescent years, from age 12 through early adulthood, when they attend middle and high school.

• Language for Learning

• Advanced Language