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Course Introduction
Child Language Disorders explores the nature, causes, assessment, and treatment of language impairments in children. The course examines typical language development and contrasts it with various disorders, such as specific language impairment, language delays, autism spectrum disorders, and language issues resulting from hearing loss or neurological conditions. Students will learn to identify risk factors, apply appropriate assessment tools, and evaluate intervention strategies to support children with language disorders. The course integrates current research findings, case studies, and practical approaches for working with affected children in educational and clinical settings.
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Articulation and Phonological Disorders Speech Sound Disorders in Children 7th Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) The phoneme /s/ has what type of placement?
A) Alveolar
B) Bilabial
C) Lingua-dental
D) Velar
Answer: A
Q2) What is the difference between fricatives and affricates?
Answer: Fricatives have continuous airflow whereas affricates start out like fricatives but then have a constriction of the vocal tract like a stop.
Q3) Define and describe the three primary acoustic features of speech.
Answer: Answers will vary, but students should discuss the frequency, amplitude, and duration of speech sounds.
Q4) A child, Sam, enters your clinic room. The first sentence he says to you is "Tam like tunny dayd", which his mother translates for you as "Sam likes sunny days"). Based on this short speech sample, which sound class does Sam have trouble with?
Answer: Fricatives.
Q5) Name four primary articulators.
Answer: Tongue, lips, jaw, and velopharynx
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Chapter 2: Normal Aspects of Articulation
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Q1) ____________ babbling includes reduplicated and nonreduplicated babbling and is an important predictor to later speech development.
A) Quasi-resonant
B) Canonical
C) Non-canonical
D) Fixed vocalic
Answer: B
Q2) A model of speech acquisition that has roots in Pavlov and Skinner and utilizes operant conditioning is:
A) Nonlinear Phonology
B) Skinnerian Theory
C) Behaviorist Model
D) Sonority Hypothesis
Answer: C
Q3) In many of the popular diary studies, the researcher is also the parent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Speech Sound Acquisition
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Q1) Describe the difference between an organic speech sound disorder and a functional speech sound disorder. Give examples
Answer: Organic SSD has a specific and known cause - such as structural anomaly, genetic disorder, or hearing loss. Functional SSD has no known cause.
Q2) Dysarthria is a neuromotor disorder that only affects the articulatory system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The tongue is an adaptable muscle that can compensate even when part of it is surgically removed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Describe the three main speech characteristics of childhood apraxia of speech CAS).
Answer: Currently, CAS is characterized by three main speech differences: inconsistent error on vowels and consonants, difficulty with prosody in phrases and words, lengthened and disrupted transitions between syllables and sounds.
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Chapter 4: Classification and Comorbidity in Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) Children with speech sounds disorders are likely to have academic difficulties in what specific areas:
A) English, spelling, grammar
B) Reading, spelling, phonological awareness
C) Social studies, science, math
D) Reading, math, spelling
Q2) Intelligence plays an important role in articulation skills in what population:
A) Individuals with severe cognitive impairments
B) All populations
C) Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing
D) Individuals with autism
Q3) The number of speech sound errors in children has been shown to decrease from first through fourth grade due to:
A) Attrition
B) Matriculation
C) Attention
D) Maturation
Q4) Tongue thrust only has to do with swallowing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Factors Related to Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) A speech sound analysis that compares what the child is producing to the adult form of the phoneme is called:
A) Independent analysis
B) Dependent analysis
C) Relational analysis
D) Repertoire analysis
Q2) Speech perception testing should be done on all individuals with a speech sound disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A comprehensive phonological evaluation assesses areas beyond phonology such as language, hearing, oral mechanism, and what other two areas?
A) Voice and fluency
B) Prosody and fluency
C) Resonance and prosody
D) Swallowing and voice
Q4) Name two common standardized single-word phonological/articulation assessments.
Q5) What kind of speech sample is a crucial part of the phonological assessment?
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Q6) Name 3 of the 4 ways a connected speech sample can be collected.
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Chapter 6: Phonological Assessment Procedures
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Q1) __________ refers to the degree or significance of a phonological impairment.
A) Intelligibility
B) Clarity
C) Intelligence
D) Severity
Q2) A child produces the word "swing" like "sawing". The is an example of:
A) Cluster simplification
B) Metathesis
C) Epenthesis
D) Coalescence
Q3) Children over 9-year-old with speech sound errors are said to have persistent errors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A child between the ages of 2.5 and 3 years who is unintelligible is typically recommended for services.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name the three ways that intelligibility can be measured.
Q6) Describe the phonological pattern "coalescence" and give an example.
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Chapter 7: Determining the Need for Intervention and Target Selection
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Q1) A list of words that contain a child's target speech sound but are never directly targeted in therapy is called a:
A) Norm-referenced measure
B) Generalization probe
C) Horizontal approach
D) Direct target
Q2) Generalization is proof that important changes are happening in treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A common organizational sequence for therapy is in the correct order):
A) Antecedent event, no response, consequent event
B) Consequent event, antecedent event, response
C) Response, antecedent event, precedent event
D) Antecedent event, response, consequent event
Q4) Children with multiple speech sound errors will have different treatment goals and generalization expectations compared to children with single speech sound errors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define across-sound generalization.
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Chapter 8: Remediation Procedures
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Q1) Articulation and phonology are two sides to the same coin.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a clinician says "listen to how I make this sound. Watch my mouth. Now you say it!", the clinician is trying to get the client to ___________.
A) Imitate the sound
B) Identify the sound
C) Place his articulators correctly
D) Shape the sound
Q3) Describe the three types of principles of motor learning.
Q4) Childhood apraxia of speech has a primary characteristic of inconsistent speech errors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the three phases of a common treatment continuum?
Q6) The first step in perceptual training of contrasts involves introducing the child to what a minimal pair is.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Motor-Based Treatment Approaches
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Q1) The most common linguistic-based treatment approach is minimal pairs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe a typical treatment session that uses the cycles approach.
Q3) What are three of the four recommended primary targets in the cycles approach?
Q4) Which of the following therapy approaches focuses on the characteristics of speech sounds including how and where the sounds are produced:
A) Minimal pairs
B) Metaphon
C) Maximal oppositions
D) Core vocabulary
Q5) One of the eight activities used in a cycles approach treatment session is:
A) Vocabulary review
B) Spelling probe
C) Phonological awareness activities
D) Oral motor exercises.
Q6) Training words used in treatment should not include syllable shapes that the child can make.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Linguistically-Based Treatment Approaches
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Q1) Pidgins become creoles when the language system is taught to a new generation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why is it important to gather syllabic, prosodic, segmental, and developmental information during an assessment of children who speak a language other than English?
Q3) Phonological development occurs more quickly in many Asian languages, compared to English.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In many Asian languages, meaning is conveyed by a combination of phonemes and:
A) Tones
B) Clicks
C) Syllables
D) Segments
Q5) When a child who is bilingual is developing speech production skills faster than his/ her monolingual peers, this is called negative transfer.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are some factors that contribute to dialect?
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Chapter 11: Phonological Awareness: Description, Assessment,
and Intervention
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Q1) Awareness of rhyme tends to develop around the time that children can:
A) Use oral language productively
B) Count
C) Segment multi-syllabic words
D) Identify the number of phonemes in a word
Q2) Besides phonological awareness skills, what other skills have shown to have a strong relationship with later reading success name two)?
Q3) Dynamic assessments allow for multiple levels of:
A) Treatment
B) Prompting
C) Success
D) Awareness
Q4) Although phonological awareness develops along a continuum, discuss the skills that would be expected to develop first, next, and last.
Q5) Children with speech sound disorders and comorbid language impairments are at higher risk for literacy difficulties than children with isolated speech sound disorders.
A)True
B)False
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