You are seeing a 6-year-old, Tyler, with specific language impairment. When you assess Tyler, you find that he has adequate language comprehension. He is able to follow directions, understand vocabulary, and comprehend sentences of appropriate length and complexity for his age. However, his teacher and parents report that he has "no friends" and that they are concerned about his social skills. When you observe Tyler several times on the school playground, in the classroom, and in the school cafeteria, you see that, while he is well behaved and nondisruptive, he does not initiate interactions with others. Treatment should focus on

You are seeing a 9-year -old boy, Emile, whose Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition score is one year above age level. Emile appears to be performing adequately in the classroom. His teacher reports that he is at grade level in most subjects. However, he often interrupts others and irritates his listeners; as a result, he is avoided by many peers. His mother reports that he is not invited to other children's birthday parties and that she has heard that other mothers view him as rude and disrespectul. Treatment should focus on increasing

You are working with an adolescent, Alyssa, who has receptive and expressive language problems. She is getting Ds in most of her classes at the junior high school and has few friends. In therapy, it would be best to target

A child who shows slow, writhing, involuntary movements has which type of cerebral palsy?

Which one of the following is NOT true?

You are assessing the expressive language skills of a 4-year-old with delayed language. One of the things he says is "My birthday party was fun- we ate cake and cookies!" This would count as

You move to a new elementary school and begin seeing the children on the caseload at this school. One child, who is being treated to "increase semantic skills," has four goals listed on her IEP. Which one of these goals is inappropriate?

A child with traumatic brain injury would most likely manifest which of the following?

Which of the following is not true with regard to treatment of children with language disorders?

A third-grade teacher refers 8-year-old Allyson to you. The teacher is concerned because "Allyson's verbal expression skills just are not what they should be. When she talks, she speaks in real simple sentences. Sometimes, I feel like I'm dealing with a kindergartener, not a third-grader." When you speak with Allyson's parents, they say, "Allyson never was much of a talker. She talked late- later than her brothers and sisters. But she was always well behaved, and we never thought she had a problem." You decide that as part of your assessment of Allyson's language skills, you will gather and analyze a language sample using TTR. When you eventually calculate TTR base on her language sample, you find that her TTR is 0.31. You conclude that

A clinician is providing services for a school-age child, Myron, who uses an AAC device. Myron's parents and teacher report that he is having trouble with the device; others frequently do not understand what he is trying to communicate. He is showing increasing signs of frustration, and the clinician has been asked to help reduce his frustration by facilitating his communication with other people. To help Myron communicate more effectively with others so that they understand his messages better, the clinician needs to make sure that the symbols on Myron's AAC device are

Justin is a 7-year-old second-grade child who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Since he was a toddler, he has had language difficulties. He has just transferred to your school district, and speech-language services have been recommended for him. Justin's parents are anxious for him to begin therapy as soon as possible. You read over the file of reports written by personnel from his previous school district and meet with your school district. The report from the previous SLP says, among other things, that Justin's language sample showed that he had difficulty with forms, such as -er (e.g., bigger) and -est (e.g., biggest). Problems with these forms reflect poor

Because of his diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, you can assume that Justin will probably have characteristics, such as

The SST believes that Justin might profit from the SCERTS approach to intervention, which involves

Using Brown's morphemes as a reference, which utterance below represents two morphemes?

A school-based SLP is conducting classroom-based interventions with several students diagnosed with specific language impairment. This means that the SLP is

In a preschool setting, a typically developing child walks up to a child with SLI and says, "Let's play house. You be the mommy, and I'll be the daddy, and we'll make dinner. Then the grandma will put the baby to bed." The typically developing child is suggesting that they engage in which type of play?

The mother of Danny, a 3-year-old who is speaking very little, has been working with an SLP on some language stimulation techniques to build Danny's expressive language skills. One day when they are driving, Danny points to the sky and says excitedly, "Plane sky!" His mother responded, "Yes, I see that big silver plane flying up in the blue sky! Wow!" She has just used the technique of

The SLP has noted that when Danny does speak, he appears to have word retrieval difficulties. The SLP decides to target this in therapy. In targeting word retrieval skills, she is working on the area of

Jeannette is a 4-year-old girl with specific language impairment. At preschool, the teacher says, "Before you put on your jacket to go outside, be sure to get your snack." Jeannette puts on her jacket first and then tries to get her snack. The teacher becomes angry and believes Jeannette is not following orders. Jeannette is showing difficulties with

Jonathan is a 5-year-old boy with a language impairment. He has a German shepherd at home named Angel. The neighbors have a Rottweiler, and his grandma has a poodle. But Jonathan only calls Angel a "dog," he does not use the word "dog" to refer to his neighbor's Rottweiler or his grandma's poodle. We can say that Jonathan is demonstrating the pattern of

Parents bring their son Derek to you. He is 30 months old and only says a few words. The pediatrician has told them to not worry and just give Derek time, saying "He is a boy, after all, and they usually develop language more slowly." But Derek's parents are still concerned. The best recommendation you could give them would be

You are working in a school and are told that a new child with an IEP has transferred to your school and will be needing language intervention. On her IEP, it states that she has a "pragmatic language disorder." Which one of the following problems are you MOST likely to see in this student?

Mario is a 4-year-old Head Start preschool child whose teacher has observed some "red flags" in his language development. You decide to interview Mario's parents and observe him in the classroom setting. You also decide to conduct a language sample. You want to conduct a language sample with Mario because

You obtain 50 utterances from Mario. Your analysis of the language sample shows that Mario used 100 words and 120 morphemes. Thus, his average MLU (mean length of utterance in morphemes) is

Tonia is a 6-year-old with autism spectrum disorder. As you work with her, you find that she frequently says what you just said. For example, if you say "Tonia, point to the apple," she says "Tonia, point to the apple." What you are observing is Tonia's use of

You have a new job in a school district where you are serving preschoolers, elementary students, and teens. You will remember that Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)