Law / Ethics / General Questions

Question 1

You are working in public school, a parent is distraught stating her son who was prenatally exposed to drugs has been denied special edicational services including speech-language intervention. Why may children who are prenatally exposed to drugs be denied services in public school?

A. language problem is not severe enough to qualify
B. they dont have other problems associated with disorders of communciation
C. theyre classified as having learning disabilities, not language impairments
D. theyr language problems are not readily detected by standardized language measures

Answer 1

D. their language problems are not readily detected by standardized language measures

Research indicates that for many children prenatally exposed to drugs, they present with language problems not detected by standardized measures of language. They may be denied special education services bc they dont fit specifically into a recognized federally designated category such as language impairment, intellectual disability, etc.

Question 2

Peneolope is a 7 yr old from Surinam. She was diagnosed with ASD at 3. She has many exp/rec language deficits and artic problems. Her mother mentions Penelope loves playing with legos, but doesnt know the name for legos. You place legos on top of a table. Penelope walks toward the table, you say “legos”. Once penelope says “legos” she gets to play with them. This method of instruction is called…

A. direct teaching
B. activity-based teaching
C. incidental teaching
D. naturalistic teaching

Answer 2

C. incidental teaching

Incidental teaching uses the principles of applied behavior analysis. The children’s interests and motivation are used to provide opportunities for structured learning in the natural environment. Incidental teaching strategies are used to enhance motivation and facilitate generalization

Question 3

School based clinician has several 4th graders on caseload: juan, nancy, ian. They were diagnosed with language impairment, and each child has an IEP. To connect mroe successfully with classroom curriculum clinician is conducting classroom-based intervention with the three students. This means he is…

A. going into 4th grade teaching specific language skills to the whole class
B. Going into the classroom and helping just those three achieve IEP goals through using classroom curriculum materials
C. having the three bring their textbooks to his therapy room so he can use these books in an individual therapy format to connect therapy with classroom curriculum

Answer 3

B. Going into the classroom and helping just those three achieve IEP goals through using classroom curriculum materials

Classroom-based intervention for students with language impairment in schools involved the clinician going into the general educational classroom and helping these students (individually or small group) work towards achievement of classroom curriculum goals.

Question 4

What can compromise a speech-language pathologist’s professional autonomy and ethical obligations?

Answer 4

Complying when a physican insists that a pt be treated even when no treatment is warrented

Question 5

Which one of the following is not true according to the ASHA Code of Ethics in terms of the responsibilities of speech-language pathologists (SLPs)?
A ©

Answer 5

SLPs may use services of SLPA even if SLPs dont have their CCC’s, a state license is sufficient