Quiz Qs 9-11 Flashcards
Fluent speech, devoid of content, is characteristic of
Wernicke’s aphasia
Age-related naming problems tend to result in
Circumlocutions
Right hemisphere damage in adults result in difficulty with
Pragmatics
Most neuro-typical older adults have at least some language comprehension problems
Because of acquired hearing loss
Phonology does not change substantially with increasing age
True
The two types of strokes discussed in class are ischemic and hemorrhage
true
Broca’s damage occurs in the right hemisphere
False
A speech impairment does not necessarily imply a language impairment
True
A thrombosis is a clot that blocks off the blood supply where it forms
True
The 2 types of hemorrhages are embolic and subarachnoid
False
Echolalia in the speech of children with autism
Seems to decrease in frequency as spontaneous communication speech develops
Children born profoundly deaf and receive a cochlear implant
Will learn to talk and use language with intensive instruction
Speech problems in children are most likely to be observed in children with:
Hearing impairment
Which of these methods has been used with some success in children with intellectual disabilities?
Augmentative Communication (AAC)
Which part(s) of the ear are affected by a conductive hearing loss?
Outer Ear and Middle Ear
Some approaches to the treatment of a language impairment include
Focused stimulation
Expansions
Scaffolding
Modeling
Childhood stuttering
- -Cause is presently not known
- -Starts being observed in children between the ages of 2-4
Which one listed below is a hypothesized explanation for Specific Language Impairments?
deficits in memory
Deficits in auditory processing
immature or incomplete grammatical development
The language skills of children with intellectual disabilities are best described as:
Delayed but not deviant (disordered)
American Sign Language
- -Is learned as a first language by many deaf children
- -Is a rule-governed language
Research on kindergarten-aged children suggests that
Language play is a common
The development of genderlects
Can be strongly influenced by parents and teachers
The adolescent register is used
For marking the speaker as an adolescent.
Emergent literacy refers to
The child’s earliest awareness of the functions and forms of literacy
Invented spelling is
Systematic, rule-governed spelling creating by developing writers
The most dramatic growth in phonological awareness occurs in the early school years as a result of literacy instruction which emphasizes
Sound-symbol correspondence
Being able to identify how a riddle works by referring to the language of the riddle itself is an example
Of metalinguistic awareness
Decontextualized language is language that refers to
Phenomena that are not immediately present
According to top-down models of reading
Reading consists of generating and testing hypotheses
A 5-year old child who can correctly identify the subject of a sentence like “The mailman delivered the envelope,” can be said to have
Metasyntactic awareness
Specific Language Impairment
Disorder of language only
Lexicon
Syntax
Pragmatics
Speech Impairment
Disorders of speech production
1 Cleft Palate & Cleft Lip
2 Articulation
3 Fluency - Stuttering
Evaluation of suspected speech & language difficulties in children
Fewer than 50 single words & no 2 word combinations by 24 months
Failure to babble by 12 months
Lack of conventional gestures by 1 year of age
No spoken words by 18 months of age
Any signs of regression
Components of skilled reading
- letter recognition
- phoneme grapheme cor rules
- word recognition
- semantic knowledge
- comprehension
sli info:
they dont misuse rather they omit-theyre not aware of those morphemes to be used
- diagnosis of exclusion(whats not affected-no hearing problems, no cognitive problems
- delayed in language
- start services later
Cognitive Factors Affecting Language
Speed of Processing
Inhibition
Working Memory
Risk Factors for Reading Difficulty
1) Environment where resources & expectation of literacy is not great.
2) Limited competency in spoken English
3) Cognitive deficits
4) Language specific problems
5) Reduced pre-literacy experiences
6) Family history of reading problems
