Measuring Children's Language Comprehension

Question 1

Why are non-standardized tests used?

Answer 1

to look more carefully at what pre-school age children can actually understand when they need evaluation

Question 2

What are the three categories SLP’s use to evaluate comprehension?

Answer 2

1.Identification, 2. Acting Out 3. Judgement Tasks

Question 3

What is the Identification task?

Answer 3

identify a function by pointing to a picture that fits the word or answers questions asked

Question 4

What is Acting-Out?

Answer 4

Demonstrate action of a sentence (can use 3 dimensional manipulatives)

Question 5

What are judgement tasks?

Answer 5

Ask child which sentence sounds “silly” or “ok” to judge accuracy

Question 6

To eliminate the non-linguistic component SLP should eliminate _______ gestures that provide clue to understanding

Answer 6

unintended

Question 7

It’s important to watch timing of any requests to not create ______ -success

Answer 7

Pseudo-