at risk and CLD populations

Question 1

How is SLI diagnosed?

Answer 1

By exclusionary criteria (i.e., no issues in hearing and motor ability; signs of emotional issues) and discrepancy (i.e., normal intellectual function but impaired language function)

Question 2

All children with a SLI diagnosis meet the criteria for a developmental language disorder. True or False?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is intellectual disability? What are details regarding it?

Answer 3

limits in two or more areas (e.g., work, leisure, social interactions, self-care, home living), limits in adaptive behavior and intellectual functioning; comes about before the age of 18; present with substantial limits in present functioning; significantly sub-average intellectual ability

Question 4

What is cultural competence?

Answer 4

a practitioner being able to respond respectively and appropriately to clients given their cultural background.

Question 5

How do SLPs best work with individuals who speak different dialects?

Answer 5

use techniques from ESL instruction and TESOL instruction

Question 6

What is simultaneous bilingualism?

Answer 6

learn 2 or more languages at once

Question 7

What is successive bilingualism?

Answer 7

learning a 2nd language after successfully developing the 1st

Question 8

What is additive bilingualism?

Answer 8

Keeping the 1st language and adding a 2nd/3rd/4th language

Question 9

What is subtractive bilingualism?

Answer 9

Learn a second language but then lose proficiency in the first language

Question 10

What are some ways to assess bilingual children?

Answer 10

assess vocabulary in both languages, then add total number of words; ethnographic interviewing

Question 11

In assessing children from CLD backgrounds, consider the following:

Answer 11

establish language dominance if possible; assess in dominant language whenever possible through informants and informal assessments

Question 12

In the model of world englishes, what is in the innermost circle?

Answer 12

USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Question 13

In the model of world englishes, what is in the outer circle?

Answer 13

Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Malaysia, South Africa

Question 14

In the model of world englishes, what is in the expanding circle?

Answer 14

China, Egypt, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Israel

Question 15

There is no scientific way to distinguish between language and a dialect

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What is a dialect?

Answer 16

a regional or cultural variation within a language that is shared by a group of people

Question 17

What can an SLP do to meet the need of someone with ID?

Answer 17

establish eligibility for services based on definition; identify strengths and weaknesses; identify type of support (e.g., intermittent, limited, pervasive, or expansive)

Question 18

What populations are considered at-risk for misdiagnosis or not getting treatment

Answer 18

Intellectually disabled; kids who are deaf or have hearing impairments; kids with otitis media; CLD populations

Question 19

Combined with other problems, OME may cause a language delay

Answer 19

True

Question 20

What factors dictate languages that are deemed acceptable?

Answer 20

history and politics

Question 21

When an SLP works with an individual who speaks other dialects, they should consider

Answer 21

hx of discrimination and separation who may lead to pragmatic as well as structural differences in language use.

Question 22

Solutions for assessing non-speakers and LEP/ENL speakers include

Answer 22

informal assessment (e.g., language sampling), criterion referenced testing (must be aware of differences in developmental expectation and pragmatics)

Question 23

Regarding language dominance, we make assumptions that children have a dominant language and will show lots of competence across all linguistic domains in one language. However, what are the problems with these assumptions?

Answer 23

perhaps there is no dominant language (child may be equally advanced or delayed in both); scattered abilities (e.g.; phonology may be better in one language than in the other); It may be that no one is truly bilingual