Exam 2 Part 7

Question 1

In general, the symptoms of language impairment become more subtle with ___; therefore, our assessment techniques must be more subtle as well.

Answer 1

Age

Question 2

What are some areas of difficulty in children who have semantic deficits?

Answer 2

Learning new words in indirect contexts, using short-term memory to store phonological forms of new words, creating/storing lexical representation, using known lexical items in suppressive language that involve word retrieval

Question 3

What are the 5 steps of an information processing system?

Answer 3

Attention, discrimination, organization, memory, retrieval/transfer

Question 4

Brain notices stimuli

Answer 4

Attention

Question 5

Picking out stimuli that is important to focus on

Answer 5

Discrimination

Question 6

Putting sensory information into file folders

Answer 6

Organization

Question 7

Transferring information into long-term memory

Answer 7

Memory

Question 8

Able to pull out information from memory

Answer 8

Transfer/retrieval

Question 9

Where would semantics fit into the information processing stage?

Answer 9

Organization

Question 10

Where would syntactics fit into the information processing stage?

Answer 10

Organization

Question 11

How would you get information on syntactic skills in a non-standardized way?

Answer 11

Assessing child’s use of question forms in spontaneous speech

Question 12

What information do we gain from a language sample?

Answer 12

Closest we get to real conversation, use of pragmatics

Question 13

What are we looking for in the syntax of older children?

Answer 13

Sentence length, measure of word structure, phrase and cause structures, use of complex sentences

Question 14

What are 4 ways that comprehension is evaluated?

Answer 14

Standardized tests, testing comprehension by having children act out certain commands, decision tasks, using pictures to engage children in pointing tasks

Question 15

Comprehension involves so much more than the literal meaning of utterances. What 4 things are these?

Answer 15

Inferences, predictions, main idea, figurative language

Question 16

What are some non-linguistic influencing factors on language comprehension?

Answer 16

Attention, hearing impairment, cognitive style, anxiety, being in crisis mode, visual processing disorder, ambiguous pictures

Question 17

Research shows that expressive language impairments are usually accompanied by difficulties in the _______ of language input.

Answer 17

Processing

Question 18

What are some difficulties are shown in children who have pragmatic issues?

Answer 18

Turn tasing, topic maintenance, eye contact, facial expression, negotiating strategies

Question 19

What are some skills when telling narrative stories?

Answer 19

Sequencing events, use of vocabulary, cohesive ties in narratives

Question 20

Richness of vocabulary, episode complexity, existence of a story climax, use of complex sentence structures, use of literate language style, and use of dialogue.

Answer 20

Sparkle