Language Impairment

Question 1

Multiple exposures that occur before the child is required to produce the language feature.

Answer 1

Focused Stimulation

Question 2

A mild form of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) characterized by an inordinate interest in letters and words and by early ability to read but with little comprehension

Answer 2

Hyperlexia

Question 3

A teaching strategy that involves removing words from a passage and having students fill in the blanks

Answer 3

Cloze Procedure

Answer 4

Model

Question 5

Information about client performance before intervention begins

Answer 5

Baselines

Question 6

Hyperactivity and attentional difficulties in children who do not manifest other characteristics of learning disabilities

Answer 6

ADHD - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Question 7

A language impairment in the absence of hearing, oral structural or functioning, cognitive, or perceptual deficits

Answer 7

SLI - speech language impairment

Question 8

Accounts for 1/500-600 live births. Low birthweight and exhibit CNS problems. Later, children demonstrate hyperactivity, motor problems, attention deficits, and cognitive disabilities.

Answer 8

FAS -Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Answer 9

EBP - evidence based practice

Question 10

Damage to the brain that results from bruising and laceration caused by forceful contact with the relatively rough inner surfaces of the skull or from secondary edema or swelling, infarction or death of tissue, and hematoma or focal bleeding

Answer 10

TBI - traumatic brain injury