Deck 10: Language and Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Question 1

Research on the speech and language of children with emotional and behavioral disorders difficulties has found:

A) No greater risk for speech and language difficulties than other children.
B) High prevalence of speech and language difficulties among children in a clinical setting but not those in school settings.
C) No higher risk for speech and language difficulties among children with less severe emotional and behavioral disorders.
D) High prevalence of speech and language difficulties among children in both clinical and school settings.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements best represents the findings of research on the prevalence of emotional and behavioral disorders in children with speech and language difficulties:

A) Children with language disorders are at high risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.
B) Children with speech disorders are more likely than those with primarily language disorders for emotional and behavioral disorders.
C) Children with speech and language disorders are at no greater risk than typically developing children for emotional and behavioral disorders.
D) Children with speech and language disorders rarely have attention deficit disorders.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Students with emotional/behavioral disorders are no more likely than the general school population to have speech and language disorders.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Why have language and communication difficulties often been unidentified in students with emotional and behavioral disorders.?

Question 5

According to studies by Cantwell and Baker, students with "pure" language problems are most at risk for psychiatric disorders.

Question 6

Most researchers believe that students with emotional and behavioral disorders are underidentified in schools.

Question 7

Children who are depressed and withdrawn may be said to have _____________ behavior problems.

Question 8

Give two examples of ways in which difficulties with speech and/or language might have an impact on the functioning of students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Question 9

Students with language and reading problems are at greater risk for having behavior problems.

Question 10

Children with internalized emotional and behavioral disorders (i.e. "reticent" children) have been found to:

A) Initiate interaction frequently with their peers.
B) Use lengthy, non-meaningful utterances.
C) Initiate interaction less often than their peers.
D) Have few language or communication difficulties.

Question 11

Students with emotional and behavioral disorders would be most likely to have difficulty with which of the following aspects of speech/language:

A) Articulation (phonological production)
B) Social communication (pragmatics)
C) Word endings (morphology)
D) Voice production

Question 12

Choose one language-communication based difficulty frequently experienced by students with emotional and behavioral disorders and give two specific suggestions for intervention to address this difficulty.