Development

Question 1

You have been asked to evaluate the speech of a 4 year old. Parents, teacher, and classmates have a really hard time understanding her. When informally assessed, her connected speech is highly unintelligible. Structured evaluation reveals the use of multiple phonological patterns.

Which pattern should Maria no longer be using at her age?
A. Fronting of Velars
B. Stopping
C. Epenthesis
D. Gliding of Liquids

Answer 1

A. Fronting of velars

A typical developing 4 year old should no longer demonstrate the pattern of fronting velars (i.e., t/k d/g substitutions). However stopping, epenthesis, and gliding of liquids are patterns that frequently persist after age 3 years.

Question 2

Which one of the following is FALSE about language milestones of a TD 6 to 7 year old?

A. Uses irregular comparatives good, better, best with greater accuracy
B. Uses reflexive pronouns like himself or herself correctly
C. Has full use of the passive voice (i.e., the car was driven by the man)
D. Had an MLU of 7-9 and uses predominantly complex and compound sentences

Answer 2

D. Had an MLU of 7-9 and uses predominantly complex and compound sentences

Most have an MLU of 7-9 and use predominantly complex and compound sentences when they are between 7 and 8 years old, NOT 6 to 7 years old

Question 3

The typical developing child of ____ years old begins using compound and complex sentences

Answer 3

3 to 4 years

Question 4

Typically developing kids demonstrate Object permanence in Piaget’s ____ stage?

Answer 4

Sensorimotor stage

Question 5

You are evaluating Claudia, a 4-year-old preschooler. She presents with several speech sound errors including fronting of velars, lateralized production of the /s/ phoneme, distortion of the /r/ phoneme, and distorted production of /0/ and /&/. What would be the most appropriate goal to address first in therapy?

Answer 5

fronting of velars

Question 6

According to the myelastic-aerodynamic theory, vibration of the vocal folds depends on which four of the following factors?

Answer 6

1. single word
2. spoken sentence
3. spoken direction
4. spoken questions
5. discourse

Question 7

At what age should a typically developing child be able to understand and use agent-action relationships?

Answer 7

18-24mo

Question 8

At what age should a typically developing child be able to understand and use agent-action relationships?

Answer 8

Nonreduplicated or variegated babbling