Deck 7: Language and Students With Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders

Question 1

Discuss the effects of impairments in conversational skills on students with learning disabilities.

Answer 1

Answers will vary

Question 2

Research has generally found that children who are better at phonological awareness tasks are better readers.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Rashad has difficulty identifying the number of sounds within a spoken word. His problem can be described as one of:

A) phonics.
B) syntax.
C) phonological awareness.
D) reading.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Research has found that children with phonological awareness difficulties:

A) have no more reading problems than other children.
B) are usually hearing impaired.
C) always have articulation problems.
D) are more likely than others to have reading difficulties.

Question 5

Students with ADHD are specifically included in the IDEA definition of "Learning Disabled."

Question 6

Research on phonological awareness instruction has found that:

A) Phonological instruction can improve the phonological skills of students with reading disabilities.
B)Phonological training programs that use technology (such as Fast ForWord) are clearly superior to other programs.
C) There is no evidence that phonological training programs can enhance phonological skills.
D) Phonological skills can only be successfully taught in an intensive, one-on-one format.\

Question 7

_______________ programs translate the spoken word into text on the computer screen.

Question 8

____________________ refers to the ability to reflect consciously on the nature and properties of language.

Question 9

Children with learning disabilities have been found to have much more difficulty than typically developing children with:

A) phonological awareness.
B) multiple meaning words.
C) non-literal words.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 10

Research on the syntactic skills of children with learning disabilities has found that:

A) Few students with learning disabilities have difficulty understanding or using syntax.
B) Students with learning disabilities often have difficulty understanding sentences that contain relative clauses and use negation.
C) Young children with learning disabilities often do not follow the typical sequence of syntactic development.
D) Young children with learning disabilities actually develop syntactic skills more quickly than their peers.

Question 11

The "Key Word" method has been found to be an effective means of improving phonological awareness.

Question 12

Students with ADHD have been found to have language difficulties primarily in the domain of _____________.

Question 13

Problems with morphological development are likely to show up in students' writing and reading comprehension skills.

Question 14

Children with reading disabilities comprise as much as 80% of the entire learning disabled population.

Question 15

Students with learning disabilities frequently have difficulty with words that have _____________ meanings.

Question 16

The "Response to Intervention" model for identifying students with learning disabilities utilizes:

A) standardized tests to identify students "at risk" for poor responses to learning.
B) neurological evaluation to identify children with brain response dysfunction.
C) student performance to identify students in need of additional instructional support.
D) evaluation of response to drug interventions.

Question 17

Research on older individuals with learning disabilities has found that most:

A) exhibit no learning problems after adolescence.
B) make significant improvements without intervention.
C) continue to have difficulty with academic tasks and social acceptance.
D) catch up with their peers.

Question 18

Which of the following statements is true of children with learning disabilities?

A) They have trouble taking the lead in conversations.
B) They are generally mute and do not participate in conversations.
C) They have difficulty providing accurate descriptions to a partner
D) All of the above
E) A and C only

Question 19

Definitions of learning disability are highly specific and easily applied.

Question 20

The IDEA definition of learning disabilities identifies language as the primary disorder in learning disabilities.

Question 21

Describe three techniques that have been found to be helpful in proving the phonological awareness skills of children with learning disabilities.

Question 22

How do disabilities in language affect the academic performance and social acceptance of children with learning disabilities?

Question 23

What has research found in regard to the use of word processing programs with students with learning disabilities? Why have such programs not been used more widely in classrooms?

Question 24

Choose one of the domains of language (phonology, morphology, etc.) and describe the research on the language of students with learning disabilities on this domain and the implications for instruction.