lecture 1

Question 1

What is a Language Disorder?

Answer 1

An impairment in the comprehension and or/use of a spoken, written, and/or other symbol system. It may involve all or any combination of the areas of form, content, and function of language (ASHA), this is a naturalistic perspective.

Question 2

Form includes:

Answer 2

phonology
morphology
syntax

Question 3

Content includes:

Answer 3

semantics

Question 4

Use includes:

Answer 4

pragmatics

Question 5

How is a language disorder diagnosed?

Answer 5

standardized test scores, comparisons and IQ

Question 6

What is the normative perspective?

Answer 6

the impact of the impairment on the child’s development in everyday situations.

Question 7

what do we need to differentiate when assessing a young child? (3)

Answer 7

1. delay (slower to learn)
2. disorder
3. difference (lang. behaviors /skills that are not exactly the same as those of person’s primary speech community)

Question 8

who believed children with poor understanding and use of speech vs. Intellectual disability?

Answer 8

Gall (1825)

Question 9

What two neurologists found arelationship between brain and language in adults

Answer 9

Broca (1861)

Wernicke (1874)

Question 10

Who discovered connections between language learning and difficulties with reading and writing acquisition?

Answer 10

Orton (1937)

Question 11

Who worked with deaf children with language disorders?

Answer 11

Ewing, McGinnis, Myklebust (1930-1971)

Question 12

Chomsky’s research on child language development provided information expanding the field focus from:

Answer 12

syntax-semantics

pragmatics-phonology

Question 13

Did Chomsky’s research allow for comparisons to typical development?

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

Who studied family and twin studies provide more genetic and environmental developmental influence ideas ?

Answer 14

Bishop 2009

Question 15

Not acquiring language as expected for age/gender is a sign of

Answer 15

DLD (developmental languae disorder)

Question 16

What is the prominent challenge for DLD?

Answer 16

language acquisition

Question 17

Is there a biological cause of DLD?

Answer 17

no

Question 18

School-aged with DLD and literacy disorders have poor skills in what 2 areas?

Answer 18

poor decoding

poor reading comprehension

Question 19

When discussing “form” and DLD what are some areas of weakness?

Answer 19

1. phonology and/or semantics

2. omit morphosyntactic markers of tense

Question 20

Give examples of morphosyntactic omissions with DLD. (3)

+What age should these be fixed?

Answer 20

1. past tense -ed
2. third person singular -s
3. Copula form of the verb “be”
   +age 5

Question 21

When discussing the “form” of DLD in older children what are some areas of difficulty? (5)

Answer 21

1. wh questions
2. limited verb form usage
3. understanding passives (“was kissed by”)
4. embedded clauses
5. pronominal reference (“who is “he”)

Question 22

What type of difficulties will stem from phonological processing deficits in children with DLD?

Answer 22

1. discrimination of speech sounds
2. categorizing speech sounds
3. sound sequencing in novel speech
4. manipulating sounds
5. vocabulary and grammar

Question 23

When discussing “content” and DLD what are some areas of weakness?

Answer 23

1. delayed acquisition of first words/phrases
2. vocabulary
3. naming errors

Question 24

When discussing the “content” of DLD in older children what are some areas of difficulty?

Answer 24

1. homophones
2. verbs
3. sentence structure

Question 25

When discussing “use” and DLD what are some areas of weakness? (6)

Answer 25

1. initiating/maintaining conversations
2. requesting/providing clarifications
3. turn-taking
4. matching social context style
5. emotional information
6. figurative language

Question 26

What two aspects are considered when diagnosing DLD in children?

Answer 26

1. chronological age

2. mental age