EEX3120 Chapter 5: Childhood Language Impairments

Question 1

These are a complex group of diverse disorders and delays with a wide range of characteristics, levels of severity, and causes. Name this group

Answer 1

Language impairment

Question 2

The effect that any disorder has on communication and on language development varies with the __________ of the disorder and the age of onset

Answer 2

Severity

Question 3

AAIDD is an advocacy program for the mentally retarded. What do the letters in the acrostic stand for?

Answer 3

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Question 4

AAIDD provides three (3) characteristics of mental retardation. Write either one or two

Answer 4

Substantial limitations in intellectual functioning and significant limitations in adaptive behavior consisting of conceptual social and practical skills

Question 5

Name the two large categories of possible causal factors for mental retardation

Answer 5

Biological; Socioenvironmental

Question 6

The “National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities” defines learning disability as a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant

Answer 6

difficulty in the acquisition of and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical ability

Question 7

TRUE/FALSE, IF FALSE THEN MAKE THE QUESTION TRUE: Learning disorder affect females four (4) times more than females.

Answer 7

False, Learning disorder affects males four times more than females

Question 8

Characteristics of learning disorder fall into six (6) categories. Name three (3)

Answer 8

motor, attention, perception

Question 9

Name the injury that may be caused by a cerebrovascular accident or stroke, congenital malformation, or a convulsive disorder

Answer 9

Traumatic Brain Injury

Question 10

Name one language characteristic of Fetal Alcohol syndrome.

Answer 10

Delayed development of language