Exam 5 Part 5

Question 1

Can muffle and distort speech

Answer 1

Background noise

Question 2

What are ways to reduce noise in the classroom?

Answer 2

Carpeting, rubber tips on chairs and desk legs, window treatments, acoustic panels, flannels on walls, cushions instead of chairs, low ceilings, small classrooms

Question 3

Errors that occur at phonemic level

Answer 3

Segmental errors

Question 4

Fewer segmental errors = ______ intelligibility

Answer 4

Higher

Question 5

Ability to understand the speech of a child who has hearing loss

Answer 5

Intelligibility

Question 6

Errors in intonation, stress, tempo, rhythm and amplitude fluctuations; occurs at level of syllables, words, sentences

Answer 6

Suprasegmental errors

Question 7

What are some factors that influence speech for those who have hearing loss?

Answer 7

Early intervention, early identification, motivation, no other disabilities, residual hearing

Question 8

What are some issues children with hearing loss may have with vowels?

Answer 8

Hypernasality, prolongation, substitution

Question 9

What are some issues children with hearing loss may have with consonants?

Answer 9

Voice/voiceless confusion, SODA, consonant cluster errors, visible consonants produced better

Question 10

What are some suprasegmental errors with significant hearing loss?

Answer 10

Voice quality, errors in stress, intonation, speak slower with frequent pauses, speaking too loud or too soft

Question 11

Simple sentence structures with few words, poor understanding of various sentence structures, overuse nouns, rarely use adverbs, pronouns, prepositions

Answer 11

Form

Question 12

Limited vocabulary, cannot identify synonyms, antonyms, learn more concrete words than abstract words

Answer 12

Content

Question 13

Incorrect language use, inappropriate use of asking questions, lack of initiation skills, poor turn-taking

Answer 13

Pragmatics

Question 14

What are some reasons why children with hearing loss have a lack of pragmatics?

Answer 14

Unfamiliar with language structure, reduce vocabulary, few conversation partners, lack of instruction

Question 15

Assessment used to determine the need for intervention, develop intervention goals, evaluate effectiveness of intervention, use child’s mode of communication, norms may be for hearing children

Answer 15

Speech and language evaluation

Question 16

What are some types of methods of measuring speech influencing intelligibility?

Answer 16

Segmental and suprasegmental production testing

Question 17

What can language therapy improve?

Answer 17

Parent-child communication, narrative skills, word knowledge, vocabulary, syntax, pragmatics

Question 18

What other services may be needed for children with hearing loss?

Answer 18

Training teachers about hearing loss, psychosocial support, understand effects of hearing loss, programs to develop pragmatic skills

Question 19

Hearing loss that includes difficulties listening in noise or reverberations, reduced speech recognition of quiet speech

Answer 19

Mild-moderate hearing loss

Question 20

Children with mild-moderate hearing loss can benefit from what?

Answer 20

IEP, amplification, FM system