chapter 4 and 5

Question 1

The process of becoming a communicator is getting the

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“big picture”

Question 2

progression of what children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators?

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play partners
turntaking partners
communication partners
language partners
conversational partners.

Question 3

when looking at the progression children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators: play partners questions an skills are

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What does their play look like, not just rapport it’s the first step
eyecontact/ looking= first step towards playing. Palay partner.

Question 4

when looking at the progression children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators: turn taking partners tells us

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about the development of reciprocity.
Nonverbal and a few gestures

Question 5

when looking at the progression children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators: communication partners tell us…

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about nonverbal communication, gestures.

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when looking at the progression children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators: language partners tell us

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Word approximations, imitating sounds

Question 7

when looking at the progression children follow on their way to becoming effective communicators: converational partners tells us

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pragmatic rules, listening, topics, etc. able to tell about topics and get your ideas of attention when you get to watch etc.

Question 8

When you thin of what to do for assessment purposes, it is useful to consider children with limited langauge in 3 categories

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nonverbal (nonspeaking), single word speakers, and early multi-word communicators

Question 9

when assessing nonverbal children you

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Play, reaching vocalizations reciprocal play etc.
Missing from our assessments: observation in their natural environment, responding to their name, full language sample. Developmental milestones (parents tell us, parent interview or a case history). Can only write what was said to you including parent’s history.

Question 10

True or Fals: Diagnostic grouping does not provide clinician with valid guildelines for assessing language skills.

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fals, e.g. MR, Autism, hearing impaired

Question 11

why is early langauge assessment so difficult? 5 points.

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1.heterogenity of the population
2. highly varied severity levels.
3. language is a complex phenomenon
4. a multitude of assessment instruments and procedures
5. language is profoundly affected by miltiple processes and domains

Question 12

heterogenity of the population refers to the fact

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that every child is different

Question 13

language is a complex phenomenon because of

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the langauge areas- syntax, morphology, pragmatics.

Question 14

models to consider in langauge assessment: models are

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perspectives and guides for organizing information and nothing more

Question 15

if a child’s behavior does not match a model being used….

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do not question the child’s behavior, question the model being used

Question 16

a simple view of reading and models of language and models of writing are

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examples of types of models.

Question 17

when doing a language assessment what are some things you should consider?

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what theories can be applied to langauge assessments?
so for socioeconomic status you can use certain theories ot use in that situation.

Question 18

features that are views as critical for an assessment that focuses on early communication and variables that predict langauge growth?

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1. assessing communicative functions
   2.analyzing preverbal communication
2. evaluating social-affective signaling.
   4.. profiling social, communicative and sybolic abilities.
3. using caregivers as informants and as active participants in the evaluation
4. assessing a child’s communication directly in spontaneous child-initiated interactions.

Question 19

(in early communication assessments but also use non-standardized approaches to evaluate domains such as

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communicative intent
play
social behavior
affective states
gestural communication
and caregiver-child interactions

Question 20

4 major areas that are predictors of language development

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1. amount of babbling vocalizations
2. use of pragmatic functions
3. vocabulary comprehension
4. play skills

Question 21

preassessment information includes

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a comprehensive case history

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gathering historical information includes

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a parent interview,, gathering inconsistencies that may not be captured through written forms like daily routines. family involved in assessment and treatment and tailored questions

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Who is involved in assessment and treatment as per IDEA

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IDEA reccomends family involvement in assessment and treatment

Question 24

assessment of social prequisites and caretaker-child interactions include

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adaptive behavior scales and child caretaker relationship information.

Question 25

adaptive behavior shales rates the childs development regarding

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motor skills,. social behaviors, help, and language abilities.

Question 26

adaptive behavior scales look at ____ and ____ development

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cognitive and social development

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adaptive language scales prodent the prespective of the slp from

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analyzing language abilities.

Question 28

a very important part about adaptive behavior scales is that they have ____

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direct taks for the child.

Question 29

when assessing the child caretaker relationship clinicians should

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play and talking, observe the quality of the langauge model that the caretaker is providing to the child, and follow the adult model.

Question 30

Play and talking is important as it provides information regarding the child's

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prelinguistic and communicative skills.

Question 31

assessments of play gain insignt into ____ _____ associated with communication

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cognitive attainments

Question 32

t/f there is not a general relationship between language and play

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false there IS a general relationship between language and play.

Question 33

play strategies reflect their concepts of the world which is _____ and can grant insign onto ____ language ability

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reflect the concepts of the world which is cognitive skills!! and can grant insight onto language ability!!

Question 34

Piaget's sensorimotor stage of development includes

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functional object us, imitation and symbolic play

Question 35

westby scale of play, carpenters play scale (props), the uzgiris-hunt ordinal scale of infant development, and communication of symbolic behavior scales are all _______ ______ of play

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behavioral observation of play [SCALES]

Question 36

assessing through play helps determine the child's capacity to be a ______ _____ _______.

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productive play partner

Question 37

assessment of communicative intent and function: communication is not synonymous with speech and language t/f

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true

Question 38

communication can be ____,_____, ______

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gestural, vocal, or verbal

Question 39

preverbal communication skills include__________________

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pointing, eye gaze, body language (comes before words are actually spoken )

Question 40

analysis of communication intent is critical to assessment of____ ____ ____

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early language cues.

Question 41

t/f standardized tests do not typically assess communicative gesture but you shouldn't rely on nonstandardized assessments for this.

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false they do not typically assess communicative gestures but you SHOULD rely on nonstandardized assessments.

Question 42

t/f failure to use language does not always indincate a language disorder.

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true

Question 43

communication and symbolic play scales (CSBS) examines

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communiucative functions, gestural, vocal, verbal, resiprocity, social-affective signaling, symbolic behavior.

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the communication and symbolic behavior scales (CSBS) data is collected from

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caregiver, direct sampling, and structured elicitation tasks.

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general guidelines of communication and symbolic behavior scales include

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conduct evaluations in a naturalistic setting, toys and stimuli to elicit different expressions, spontaneous place, elicitation tasks

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it is suggested langauge can be distilled into two basic units,

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being to influence joint attention and the othe to influcence joint activity.

Question 47

use of tests and promal procedures with limited language children: limited-language can be

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nonspeaking or single word level at the preschool age.

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incluences of tests and formal with limited-language childre are

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idea/federal legislation. ages 2-5 work with public school clinicians (dynamic assessment), and there has been a increase in research in the past 20 years.

Question 49

preschool tests for limited language children include

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motor skill, cognition, personal-social behavior, adaptive behavior and communication. they can be standardized, norm references and/or criterion references.

Question 50

t/f only judge childs skills based on formal assessments

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false, DO NOT only judge a childs skills based on formal assessments use DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT.

Question 51

when it comes to assessing structure and function in early utterances children with single word utterances are either

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referential- word and object oriented or expressive- social and conversation oriented

Question 52

referential children usually___ while expressive children are more ____.

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referential play alone expressive children are socially oriented more so.

Question 53

when it comes to assessing structure and function in early utterances late bloomers usually use

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less than a 50 word lexicon and no multiword combinations by age 2.

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clinicians must be able to distinguish late tlakers from those who will continue with this delay (late bloomers) by

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by looking for patterns and signs.

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early multiword uttertances (basic ones) are composed of

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semantic cases (two words that convey meaning)

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when it comes to assessing structure and function in early utterances form, content and use comes from

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Bloom and Lahey

Question 57

When it comes to the assessment of early language comprehenion and utterances using length measures there are 2 confounding factors___ and ____

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nonlinguistic context and comprehensdion strategies.

Question 58

When it comes to the assessment of early language comprehenion and utterances using length measures non-linguistic context is

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children's response to language is determined by multiple factors. Resposne can be primarily in response to the nonverbal contextual aspects (not necessarily the verbal context).

Question 59

When it comes to the assessment of early language comprehenion and utterances using length measures comprehension strategies are

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shortcut for arriving at sentence meaning w/o full combining of the info in the sentence and one's linguistic knowledge.

Question 60

When it comes to the assessment of early language comprehenion and utterances using length measures clinicians who attempt to assess early language comprehension should be

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aware of correct responses by children that could have been generated by attention to stimuli/comprehension strategies.

Question 61

cp,[rehension different to test would be w/o

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contaminating influences.

Question 62

it is difficuilt to differentiate between a cognitive deficit vs. _____.

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not hearing accurately.

Question 63

MLU is utterances using

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length measures

Question 64

t/f mlu is the most commonly used measure of length

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true.

Question 65

mlu is important for several reasons including

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general correlation between mlu and chronological age up to age 4 can be a gross indicator of lang development brown utilized mlu to create the 5 stages of lang development Mlu is the most accurate predictor of lang

Question 66

the most accurate predictor of lang

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MLU

Question 67

when doing an assessment odf special populations

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communication is the major focus. focousing assessment on precommunicative artea recommending AAC modes noting specific characteristics.

Question 68

when it comes to consolidating data and arriving at treatment rewcommendations clinicians should look for

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data obtained in the evaluation analyses preformed on the data areas of concern and strength recommendations

Question 69

students with language problems : the high risk group usually have or include

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history of impairment in early school age students with learning and or reading disabilities students who are at academic risk.

Question 70

standardized testing is used to compare

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performance on a particular measure to performance of same age peers

Question 71

t/fstandardized testing adresses whether a prioblem exists or not

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true

Question 72

standardized testing defines the

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nature of the problem

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standardized testing helps select

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treatment targets

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t/f standardized testing documents the existence of diagnoses

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f the existence of a language disorder.

Question 75

when using standardized testing you should consider

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the language area you are assessing

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nonstandardized tests

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to probe children's use of certain areas.

Question 77

things to consider with language samples

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communication sampling voice record the sdample minimize yes/no questions ask board questions contribute to the conversation do not "play silly" learn to tolerate periods of silence stay on topic long enough to converse about it be aware of child's cognitive levels.

Question 78

Language comprehension testing tests

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northwestern syntax screening, assessment of children's langauge comprehension, test of aurditory comprehension of language.

Question 79

to do assessment of syntax

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langauge analysis package, collect langauge cample.

Question 80

linguistic analysis of speech samples, developmental sentence analysis are examples of assessment of

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assessment of syntax

Question 81

assessment of conversational pragmatics include

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narratives conversation obesrvations.

Question 82

assessment of literacy include

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story retell, writing samples journal entries observation in the classroom interviews.