Deck 11: Language and Other Special Populations of Children

Question 1

What is meant by a "work-around" strategy?

Answer 1

We expect most of these children to show some adaptation and response as they work to overcome or work
around their disabilities.

Question 2

What is velocardiofacial syndrome?

Answer 2

Velocardiofacial syndrome is characterized by cardiac as well as cleft and facial abnormalities.

Question 3

How could we characterize children with an inconsistency between scores on IQ or achievement tests and their actual classroom performance?

A) gifted
B) underachievers
C) unmotivated
D) disadvantaged

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is meant by family centered assessment?

Question 5

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Question 6

How are motor speech skills and feeding related in children with cerebral palsy?

Question 7

Other than a faster rate of acquisition, there is no evidence that language is acquired differently in gifted
children.

Question 8

Discuss why parents might want to label their child as "gifted but with a learning disability". How does this differ from those who are simply learning disabled?

Question 9

What does research suggest about early readers?

A) correlated with high IQ
B) strongly genetically linked
C) predicts later levels of reading
D) attributable to rearing factors

Question 10

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Question 11

Giftedness refers to potential as well as demonstrated ability.

Question 12

Which statement is true of children with visual impairments?

A) all have some limited sight
B) many are language disordered
C) they rely on visual memories
D) they gain language in a different way from sighted children

Question 13

Which profile of a child with cerebral palsy is most likely to result in language and speech problems?

A) motor impairment - normal IQ
B) normal motor control - abnormal IQ
C) motor impairment - low IQ
D) normal motor control - normal IQ

Question 14

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Question 15

How does the language of parents of blind children vary from that of parents of typically developing
children?

Question 16

What are the pros and cons of treating children who have a verbal-performance gap where the verbal score is normal and the performance score is superior? To encourage debate, pose the question: Aren't these kids normal? Shouldn't they be allowed to get on with becoming great mechanics, engineers, architects, and computer programmers as their performance scores indicate they can be?

Question 17

How do blind children use echolalia?

Question 18

Which statement is true of the language of a child identified as gifted?

A) accelerated rate of language development
B) atypical pattern of language development
C) vocabulary exceeds syntactic development
D) pragmatic skills are impaired

Question 19

How could limited physical experience influence language development?

Question 20

What are the language characteristics of children with visual impairment?

Question 21

Cleft palate is associated with decreased risk of middle ear disease and conductive hearing loss.

Question 22

The problems of children with cerebral palsy are usually limited to neuromotor skills.

Question 23

Visually impaired children tend to more actively initiate and repair conversations than typically developing
children.

Question 24

Children with VCF syndrome usually have language impairment as well as clefts and cardiac problems.

Question 25

Gifted children with disabilities show discrepancies between different modalities of development.

Question 26

A high proportion of blind children will use echoic speech.

Question 27

In young children with cleft palate, problems with language development are often both expressive and
receptive.
True/ False Key

Question 28

Many children with visual impairments will meet the criteria for a diagnosis of language impairment.

Question 29

In treating children with cerebral palsy, motor speech skills should be separated from feeding skills.

Question 30

Teaching strategies for children in the gifted range should focus on teaching content.

Question 31

Blind children are more likely than typically developing children to have pragmatic difficulties.