Deck 17: Speech, Language, and Literacy

Question 1

The effects of hearing loss are most pronounced with children who have a congenital loss or who lose their hearing in early childhood.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

One of the most potent predictors of ultimate speech proficiency is a child's ability to recognize speech.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Children who hear words better also speak them better.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In children with profound hearing loss, using hearing aids results in children's speaking better than using cochlear implants.

Question 5

Physiological studies suggest that children who have significant hearing loss move their tongue bodies in the anterior- posterior (front-back) dimension more than talkers with normal hearing.

Question 6

As they begin to speak, cochlear implant users acquire speech sounds in about the same order as do children who have normal hearing.

Question 7

Cochlear implants support pitch perception very well.

Question 8

In general, children who have significant hearing loss will learn words that are concrete more readily than they will learn words that are abstract.

Question 9

A child will be more intelligible when reading a paragraph than speaking a list of unrelated sentences.

Question 10

When using an auditory approach, it is important to remember that a child should be able to speak heterogeneous syllable strings before being asked to speak homophenous strings.

Question 11

A naturalistic approach emphasizes the interactions among form, content, and pragmatics.

Question 12

A rising intonation:

A) converts a statement into a question.
B) conveys irritation or impatience.
C) suggests a lack of interest in the conversation.
D) expresses gravitas.

Question 13

Adults with significant and prelingual hearing loss often demonstrate what aberrant behavior when talking?

A) expending less breath saying each word than talkers with normal hearing
B) producing more words per breath than talkers with normal hearing
C) using excessive force while speaking an initial stop consonant
D) initiating utterances with a great deal of air volume in their lungs

Question 14

Which statement about children who receive cochlear implants is correct?

A) They develop form at the same rate as children with normal hearing.
B) They develop form at the same rate as hearing aid users.
C) They develop form faster than children with normal hearing, but slower than hearing aid users.
D) They develop form faster than hearing aid users, but slower than children with normal hearing.

Question 15

An 18-month-old toddler with significant hearing loss has a vocabulary of ____________ words.

A) less than 10
B) about 20
C) about 50
D) about 250

Question 16

The average reading level of high school students with profound hearing loss is frequently about a________ level.

A) first- or second-grade
B) third- or fourth-grade
C) fifth- or sixth-grade
D) seventh- or eighth-grade

Question 17

The overuse of ________ in the writing samples of children with hearing loss is common.

A) subject-verb-object sentences
B) synonyms
C) metaphors
D) cohesive forms of substitution

Question 18

The CID Phonetic Inventory bases the evaluation of a child's speech production primarily on the:

A) overall intelligibility at the single-word level.
B) level of articulation.
C) degree of nasality.
D) syllable unit.

Question 19

Which test uses a set of 40 cards with a single word printed on each?

A) Phonetic Leveland the Phonologic Level Speech Evaluation
B) CID Phonetic Inventory
C) Speech Intelligibility Evaluation (SPINE)
D) Beginners' Intelligibility Test (BIT)

Question 20

Which test contains four lists of ten sentences and was developed for children with cochlear implants?

A) Beginner's Intelligibility Test (BIT)
B) CID Phonetic Inventory
C) Phonetic Level and the Phonologic Level Speech Evaluation
D) Speech Intelligibility Evaluation (SPINE)

Question 21

Which formal test primarily tests form?

A) Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn)
B) Semantic Content Analysis
C) Expressive Vocabulary Test
D) Meaningful Use of Speech Scale (MUSS)

Question 22

Which formal test primarily tests pragmatics?

A) Reynell Developmental Language Scales
B) Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH)
C) Oral and Written Language Skills (OWLS)
D) Developmental Sentence Analysis (DSA)

Question 23

Northampton Charts are used in which approach to speech therapy?

A) olfactory
B) auditory
C) visual
D) tactile

Question 24

The term_________ refers to how well a person with normal hearing can understand a child's speech.

Question 25

A(n) ________ tests how well one set of data predicts another.

Question 26

A talker _________a speech unit by anticipating the sound during an earlier unit in the string or retains aspects of a unit during production of a subsequent unit.

Question 27

The term__________ refers to the buildup of pressure below the closed vocal folds in the larynx.

Question 28

The__________ is the ratio of the number of different words compared to the total number of words used.

Question 29

The________is the mean number of words per sentence, total number of words, and the number of different words.

Question 30

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The language we speak or sign

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 31

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-This refers to the use of language in context, along with the societal-dependent aspects of communicative interactions

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 32

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-This governs the internal structures of words

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 33

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-A statistic used to describe the dispersion of data, and that which describes the average distance from the average score

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 34

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-Marked by changes in loudness, duration, or pitch, or some combination of the three

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 35

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The words and meanings

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 36

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The language we either hear or receive via sign

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 37

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The part of grammar that governs how linguistic units are combined into phrases, clauses, and sentences

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 38

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-An advanced form of infant babbling that consists of well-formed consonant-vowel combinations

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 39

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The delivery of services by means of telecommunications and electronic communications

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 40

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-This pertains to both the surface and the underlying meanings of words and language, and includes multiple meanings of words

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 41

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The ability to apply one's knowledge of letter­sound relationships to the task of recognizing and interpreting written
Words

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 42

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-Linguist unit that cannot be divided into smaller units

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 43

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The proper use of the elements of language, such as nouns, verbs, and prepositions

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 44

Match the descriptions with their terms:

-The vocabulary of an individual or a language

A) canonical babbling
B) Stress
C) expressive language
D) receptive language
E) Form
F) Syntax
G) Morpheme
H) morphology
I) Content
J) Lexicon
K) Semantics
L) Pragmatics
M) word decoding
N) standard deviation
O) telepractice

Question 45

List five factors that may affect speech, language, and literacy development in young cochlear implant users and that may help account for within-group variability.

Question 46

List the five ways in which auditory information helps children with normal hearing learn to talk.

Question 47

What are the five common types of vowel errors?

Question 48

What are the five characteristic consonant errors?

Question 49

What are the five suprasegmental effects?

Question 50

What are the three main reasons why some children with hearing loss do not learn conversational pragmatics very well?

Question 51

What are the three primary reasons for literacy deficits to arise in the face of significant hearing loss?

Question 52

List three of the attributes of a successful reader, as identified by the International Reading Association.

Question 53

What are the three purposes for conducting a speech and language assessment?

Question 54

What four tasks might you ask a child to perform in order to obtain a speech sample?

Question 55

What three variables should be considered when selecting segmental speech testing procedures?

Question 56

What are the two primary reasons for assessing literacy skills?

Question 57

List three methods researchers have used to assess written language samples.

Question 58

List three goals of a comprehensive speech development program.

Question 59

List three language therapy goals.

Question 60

List four techniques teachers and speech and hearing professionals can use to foster good writing skills.