Exam 2 Part 2

Question 1

What is the golden question when collecting background data?

Answer 1

What is a typical day like for your child?

Question 2

What are some standards during pre-assessment and collecting background information?

Answer 2

Gain understanding of medical and developmental history, determine history of any language delay/impairment

Question 3

What are some specific questions that an SLP may ask during an interview?

Answer 3

Does the child use gestures to communicate? How does the child communicate intent? Does your child use vocalization? Does your child make eye contact?

Question 4

Focusing on the ______ _______ of a child helps clinicians to understand the strengths and limitations of communication and to assist in the development of treatment objectives

Answer 4

Language abilities

Question 5

What are some specific questions that an SLP may ask if the child is minimally verbal?

Answer 5

Does the child name similar objects? Can the child say the alphabet? Does the child use word combinations?

Question 6

What are some specific questions that an SLP may ask if the child uses short phrases?

Answer 6

Does the child respond to multiple step commands? Does the child use syntax? Is the child difficult to understand?

Question 7

Federal laws that govern mandates SLPs to do

Answer 7

IDEA

Question 8

IDEA mandates the involvement of the ____ in both assessment and treatment

Answer 8

Family

Question 9

Helps us to determine if a child is capable of being a productive play partner and social participant with the adult in his or her environment

Answer 9

Play assessment

Question 10

Why do we use play to assess cognitive level?

Answer 10

Determine a child’s ability to represent reality and deal with symbols

Question 11

Actions that have communicative intent and are expressed with fingers, hands, arms, facial expressions, and bodily motions

Answer 11

Gestures

Question 12

An early sign of communicative intent where the infant engages in repetitive behaviors to gain an adult’s attention

Answer 12

Showing off

Question 13

Contact gestures require contact with an object or caregiver (e.g., pushing a hand away), whereas distal gestures do not

Answer 13

Deictic

Question 14

When do deictic gestures begin to develop?

Answer 14

10-12 months

Question 15

Symbolic gestures that are used to represent a social action (e.g., waving good-bye) or a feature of an item (e.g., hand to mouth to represent drinking)

Answer 15

Representational

Question 16

When do representation gestures develop?

Answer 16

12 months

Question 17

Category of children where they use vocalizations and perhaps gestures, but their caretakers report no real use of language to control the child’s environment

Answer 17

Largely non-verbal

Question 18

What are the 4 predictors of later language development in in pre-linguistic children?

Answer 18

Babbling, use of pragmatic function, vocabulary/comprehension, symbolic play skills

Question 19

children may accrue a lexicon of about 50 words before starting the use of word combinations for generative language

Answer 19

Children who speak largely at single-word level

Question 20

How do we evaluate children who largely speak at the single word level (4)?

Answer 20

Evaluation of play skill development, norm standardized testing, descriptive evaluation, criterion referenced standardized testing