Communication Sciences and Disorders

Question 1

True or False - Speech correctionists work with doctors collaboratively

Answer 1

False, scientists

Question 2

True or false - Scientists are able, through clinicians, to diagnose individuals with disorders

Answer 2

False, their job is to research and develop an understanding of communication problems

Question 3

Van Riper’s early vision of Communication Sciences

Answer 3

Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

Question 4

Which of the following is related to psychological interdisciplinary actions, choose ALL correct :
1. Behaviour
2. Physiology
3. Language structure
4. Diagnosing autism
5. Consequences of surgeries and drugs on communication
6. Lifespan
7. Cognitive processes

Answer 4

Lifespan and cognitive processes

Question 5

Which of the following are the different types of research assessed :
1. Basic science
2. Basic research
3. Individual vs group research
4. Clinical Research
5. Application method research
6. Applied research

Answer 5

1. Basic science
2. Clinical research
3. Applied research

Question 6

Describe ‘applied research’ (Hint : think of the word ‘consequence’)

Answer 6

Research (?) or activities that have immediate consequence

Question 7

True or false : Basic science must always be theoretical

Answer 7

False, it can be, but it doesn’t have to be

Question 8

Describe two issues involved with diagnosing and treating a patient (hint : think ‘before’ and ‘after’)

Answer 8

1. The evidence used to identify the communication challenge.
2. How to determine whether the treatment used actually works

Question 9

Define ‘face validity’

Answer 9

The measures are good indications/proxies of the ACTUAL phenomenon/concept that is aiming to be treated

Question 10

How many levels of evidence are there?

Answer 10

Six (VI is worst, I is best)

Question 11

Describe the level of evidence IV

Answer 11

This level is not very good evidence, and is understood as ‘non-experimental ‘ studies’, or a study that doesn’t have a control group

Question 12

Describe why level I is the best type of evidence (3)

Answer 12

Level I is best because it is :
1. Generalizable
2. A well designed experiment
3. MANY Randomly controlled tests/experiments

Question 13

What does socially learned and conventionalized mean?

Answer 13

Socially learned means learned from the community and conventionalized means arbitrary and agreed upon

Question 14

True or False : There is a reference language/reference culture

Answer 14

False, there is no one way we should conform

Question 15

What do age-normed standardized tests do?

Answer 15

They technically allow the general public to have an accurate estimate of the age at which most people start to master a particular linguistic dimension

Question 16

Define an accent

Answer 16

An accent refers to the way that any person speaks (we all have slightly different accents - differences in which sound units are produced)

Question 17

Define a dialect

Answer 17

A dialect refers to language differences that include more grammar and lexicality

Question 18

True or false : most accents + dialects are mutually intelligible

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False : code switching implies a lack of language competence

Answer 19

False, it doesn’t have to do with competence

Question 20

Name all multilingualisms (3)

Answer 20

Simultaneous bilinguals : learning both languages at a very early age (about 2 and under)
Sequential bilinguals : individual who learns 1st language at birth, then learns a second language at an early age
Late-learning : 1st language at birth, second later age (teen/adult)

Question 21

What is a reference accent?

Answer 21

Homogenizing differences that are of an individual’s identity - the reference accent refers to the general accent belonging to a larger pop (?)

Question 22

Hernadez’s language justice goals

Answer 22

1. Seeking educational equity
2. Affirming identities
3. Promoting bi/multilingualism
4. Structuring integration