CH. 11 Language Disorders in School-Age Children

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In most cases of language disorders, the cause of

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the child’s language-learning difficulties are unknown

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Section 504 prohibits any agency receiving federal funding from

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discriminating against individuals with disabilities

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If a child cannot benefit from the same kinds of educational experiences that are routinely available for nondisabled students, they are said to be the subject of

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discrimination

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What 3 things were guaranteed by PL 94-142?

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(1) public education, (2) appropriate public education (3) least restrictive environment

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The expenses related to providing for the special needs of children with disabilities are the responsibility of the

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of the public

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An unique education program which specifies the child’s strengths and weaknesses, levels of educational performance, measurable goals, type of services, and amount of time each week services will be provided is called a(n)

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Individualized Education Program (IEP)

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The name for PL 94-142 (Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) was changed to

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Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

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A child’s IEP is reviewed

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annually to determine eligibility for special education services and create new IEP if needed

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)

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states that all schools must make adequate yearly progress in raising the percentage of students who are proficient in math and reading.

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Title I

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supports programs to improve the learning of children from low-income families

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Reading and writing are

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language- based skills

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To read, children must learn to

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decodes sequences of letters to represent phonemes, words, sentences and stories that are apart of their oral language

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To write, children must learn to

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encode their language into sequences of letters

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Children exhibiting difficulty with comprehension and/or expression of language form, content and use are said to have a

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language disorder

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A child with a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations has a

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specific learning disability

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Children with specific-problems learning and using sound-symbol relationships during reading are said to have

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dyslexia

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Diagnosing a child with a learning disability based on differences in their IQ score versus their standardized test scores is called

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Discrepancy modeling

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A procedure used to determine whether a child responds to scientific, research-based intervention is known as

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Response to intervention (RTI)

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Learning disabilities in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and spelling, and dyslexia are all

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language-based problems

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A repetition, a false start, or a reformulation of a sentence is called a

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maze

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Another term for storytelling is

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narration

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Difficulties with narration interfere with

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socialization and the development of literacy

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The simple view of reading states that reading consists of 2 components:

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(1) language comprehension (2) word recognition

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The two subskills involved in word recognition are:

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(1) development of mental graphemic representation (MGRs) (2) word decoding

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Using MGRs

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is often referred to as sight word reading

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phonological awareness

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skills are required to decode words.

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During the school-age years, vocabulary becomes very

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subject specific

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Discourse found in academic textbooks is called

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expository texts

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Rereading passages not understood, taking extra notes, memorizing your notes by saying them out loud, or creating your own practice tests, are examples of

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metacognitive strategies

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The written record of a child’s conversation and narration elicited during assessment is called a

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transcript

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Factors contributing to learning language include:

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literature based language intervention and classroom collaboration

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selective attention

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enables learners to attend more carefully to new information which leads to better language learning

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In literature-based language intervention, clinicians use

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book discussions as the primary context for intervention.

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Integrating language learning goals into the classroom curriculum is referred to as

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classroom collaboration