Language Disorders across the Lifespan

Should you set goals with the client before or after you do an assessment?

What word contrast types are useful for assessment and intervention?

child being aware their 'signal' will effect listener & persisting till effect is achieved is?

lesions that occur in the border zone outside brocas area: anterior superior frontal lobe:

As a clinician it is important to set goals for:

In semantics Tier 1 goals are: clock, lamp, run, Tier 2 words are powerful, virtue etc and

Socio-emotional regulation is increasing awareness of emotional ups & downs that you can teach:

If helping children to improve their comprehension should you ask more simple or complex q's?

Parents affect joint attention by: not redirecting attenion, attending to childs tasks/objects

Can name letters but fail to recognise word, when they spell the word aloud they know it is:

Which aphasia battery will give you an Aphasia Quotient, Language Quotient & Cortical Quotient?

You can use conversational recast techniques, scripts, structures and colourful semantics to?

The dual functions of language is that it is Transacational and Interactional

Impaired aud comp, verbal expression, reading, writing BUT good repetition

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear sounds as they occur in words.

Cognitive-psychological bases for SLI have both process based explanations&linguistic knowledge

Word finding difficulties where use of circumlocution is used to compensate is known as?

Perseveration is unintentional repetition of the previous response

A made up word is called a:

Which is more complex, written language or speech?

Picture description and naming tasks can be used to elicit:

The RTI can be used as a school based delivery model?

Encompasses all strategies employed to gather, interpret & record info relating to disorder

Clear administration & scoring, comparisons to age group & identifying specific area of deficit

Reading at writing should be assess at?

Screening does not result in diagnosis, rather it indicates the potential need for further ax

Deficit in accessing semantic system- BUT not in the semantic system, aud comp is poor

Turn-taking, imitation and joint attention are the focus of which period?

deficity in aud phonlogical analysis, normal hearing, impaired repetition & minimal pairs is:

Scaffolded and supported conversations involve the communication partner:

Screening, case history, observation, standardised tests, descriptive analysis are all?

RTI (Response-to-intervention) approaches have how many levels/tiers?

Increasing successful participation and increasing communicative confidence is the goal of?

Universal screening is:

Description of the language abilities/disabilities of people with aphasia traditionally incl.

Assessment for living with aphasia (ALA) was developed to capture:

Problems distinguishing brief or rapid sounds are which cognitive component?

When planning assessment for aphasia:

Everday talk involves exchange of info includes: speech, gesture, gaze, body language?

Varied lesion sites, good aud comp, wordretrieval difficulty most prominent, circumlocutions is

Object permanence, imitation, symbolic play with others and functional object use are all?

The benefits of observation and descriptive analysis are cost effective, naturalistic, childled

A lesion in the left parietal lobe- also supramarginal gyrus and arcuate fasciculas is:

Sentence difficulties in aphasia are influenced by complexity and passive sentences may be:

Typically occurs in brocas aphasia- problems rarely confied to production- also compreh diffic

Immediate repetition of nonwords measures?

Treatments that aim to improve access and retrieval of words from the lexical network are:

Tempoparietal lesion; sometimes occipital lobe, impaired aud comp, empty speech, good repetitio

Frequency of childcare, social interaction, eye-contact, joint attention and turn-taking are?

The different types of aphasia are characterised by deficits in one or more of the following:

Is aphasia a multimodal disorder of symbolic processing that is neurogenic and acquired

The Preschool Language scales (PLS-5) for 0-8 & the Renfrew Action Picture Test (3-8 yrs) are?

Casual & temporal subordinating conjunctions, coordinating conj, adverbs, MLU is narrative

Activity and participation are:

What is an observational tool that samples behaviours from a particular developmental period?

You can optimise a case history by providing a checklist format and...

target is tiger & person says 'lion' this is a semantic paraphasia so if they say 'giger':

Severe auditory comprehension impairment where speech is fluent but with abnormal content is:

The ages and stages questionairre and MacArthur Bates CDI are examples of Developmental Scales?

When assessing reading and writing you should also consider premorbid skills and:

Canonical sentence order is more typical sentence structure and is easier to understand than

results from writing via impaired semantic route- semantic errors, nonword spelling difficult

Neglect on either side of the word- e.g. LOG- 'dog'-'lot' =

Monitoring and assessing young children on a regular basis inc. family hist, late talkers etc

The benefits of a case history is that it is: easy to elicit, time efficient, family focused

What are the principles of intervention?

To assess writing you could use a written picture description, standardised tests or

There are four types of therapy groups, one is a 'family support group' which educates families

Impaired visual orthographic analysis doesnt allow string of letters to be identified as a word

Being able to read left to right, holding a book the right way up and basic letter knowledge is

Which approach teaches that each letter of the alphabet makes one sound- then applies rules

Which type of aphasia is known as expressive aphasia, where comprehension is better than speech

In which are shorter words harder to understand than longer words because of more phono neighb

Which aphasia test battery tests expressive & receptive lang, screens for neuropsych deficits?

Which kind of text's purpose is to inform and focuses on factual info & abstract ideas

In the pathways to building better outcomes diagrams Green= most evidence, yellow=less evidence

In PA: Linking sounds to form words is

The benefits of developmental scales are that they focus on language in natural settings and:

The most severe type of aphasia w extensive lesions in brocas & wernickes is:

Word lists are useful for assessment and treatment of dyslexia, there are 3 main word lists:

Language disorders are both a cause & a result of reading disabilities

Standard & dynamic assessment, observation analysis, language sampling, parent/teacher reports

The rapid retrieval of phonological information is

Eat your breakfast before you brush your teeth is a

Environment and Personal factors are:

In an RTI Tier 1= core instructional program, Tier 2= Target small group instruction & Tier 3 =

Pragmatic Language assessment tells you what a child knows but does this mean they are doing it

Only an increase in language skills will result in an increase in number skills?

Which aphasia battery assess core areas: spontaneous speech, aud comp, repetition, naming, read

A comprehensive expressive & receptive language testing involves not only phonology & semantics

Hearing individual sounds and words and knowing that words start off as parts is:

Errors in spelling, morphology and syntax =

Tier 1 words are learnt through implicit instruction such as conversation and play whereas

A cyclical Approach to intervention involves goals being presented in a cycle, eg week 1 goal 1

Word meaning deafness is not a problem at the semantic level- it's just an access problem!!!

Basic, Intermediate and Specific are 3 types of?

Auditory comp is relatively good but impaired, fluent expression, phonemic paraphrasias is:

Observed behaviours include:

Visually coordinating attention to an object with another, sharing interest and understanding

NARNIA is a mulit-level therapy that directly targets:

A vertical approach to presenting goals in intervention is:

If a patient is first asked to point to his nose then repeatedly points to it in following q's

Group therapy provides opportunities to address the dual functions communication which are?

Alphabet/Orthographic knowlege involves letter names& letter sounds which is a better predictor

Sound letter-correspondance and oral reading of consonant clusters is treatment for which 2?

Which treatment approach is guided by the underlying deficit?

Muscle weakness/paralysis most commonly associated with: ' ' because lesion near motor centres

Impaired reading aloud but relatively good reading comp and impaired writing is:

Decoding and word recognition involves:

In surface dyslexia regular words are read better than irregular words but in deep dyslexia:

Why intervene at school level?

Story production, retell story grammar analysis & episode complexity is narrative:

difficulty in sublexical writing to dictation, very poor writing of non words to dictation

Made-up fluently articulated error word e.g. we are having a semling (for BBQ) IS a:

What is based on the presumption that immersion in books will teach reading, memorising words

The communication &symbolic behaviour scales- developmental checklist were designed to measure:

Characterised by misuse of grammatical morphemes e.g. blends and substitutions

Reading via an impaired semantically mediated lexical rount- ortho to phono conversion impaired

being aware of the latest research evidence, studies & practices new clinical skills is a

In PA: Identifying a particular sound when it occurs in different words positions is

Rare,able to repeat but severe impairment of all other comm abilities, combo of TSA and TMA

What kind of test is designed to elicit specific linguistic behaviours & normed on large sample

At what tier does pragmatic therapy work best at?

Therapy targeting the lexical route or the sub-lexical route and the two main approaches for?

Plastic changes in the brain may be:

Using past experience & personal knowledge to form an inference is:

Approaches to aphasia intervention are:

Using the ICF- Identifying objects by colour and size would be what level?

Phonics and whole language should be incorporated into classroom, one on its own is not enough

Intervention within a social model can include: a focus on conversations, group therapy and?

Charactised by omission of grammatical morphemes, simplified syntactic structures& reduced verb

What type of text's purpose is to tell a story witha focus on character goals & familiar schema

High intensity therapy in months after stroke capitalises on neural plasticity in the brain

Language Difference is:

Lesions in the posterior portion of the left superior temporal gyrus is usually:

Results from impaired sublexical reading route

Decoding x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

Verbal expression abilities in aphasia is described by the terms:

Lesion in brocas area: posterior-inferior frontal gyrus of the dominant hemisphere is:

The 5 steps of therapy are: info gathering & sharing, collaborative goal setting, pretherapy ax

Jargonistic speech output is rapid and full of paraphasias and neologims speech output may be:

Poor or non-existence nonword reading or nonwords read as visually similar read words is:

Whataimstochange or eliminate underlying problem, change disorder, teach compensatory behaviour

The ability to auditorily recognise and manipulate individual phonemes in words is

Which aphasia battery focuses on conversational & narrative speech, aud comp, oral expression?

Which assessment teaches using mediated learning and evaluates responsivity and transfer?

Background, Medical Hx, Psychosocial Development, Cognitive development, Language developement

disability is consequence of disabling attitudes & barriers imposed by society not impairment

Wernicke's, Conduction, Anomic and Transcortical Sensory Aphasia's are all:

Multiple oral reading (MOR) is the treatment for what?

Lesion spares brocas, wernickes & arcuate fasciculus but isolates these areas from other brain

A report needs to include: case & ax history, reason for referal, explanation of tasks and

Assess-treat-retrest the skill- treat is the?

Learning spelling involves learning the patterns & rules that apply to large numbers of words

In PA: spoken sentences can be segmented in words, words into syllables & sounds-

Whole word reading targeting specific irregular patterns- 'ow' in cow vs row is treatment for?

Surface Dyslexia, Deep dyslexia, Phonological Dyslexia are all types of:

Should you always work at an auditory level before you work at a phonatory level?

Pure word deafness, word form deafness and word meaning deafness are top 3 left side CNP & are:

Genetics, Environment and Cognition can result in behavioural changes consistent with DLD?

The Mt Wilga High Level Language Assessment is primarily used for patients with:

AOS, Right hemiparesis in leg more than arm and visual field impairments are assoc. neuro impai

When all goals are worked on at the same time to increase the rate of different behaviours its?

Noun & verb retrieval, mapping therapy, conversation therapy, Living with aphasia approach are?

Substitution, addition or re-arrangement of speech sounds e.g. wish-dasher is a:

Aphasia is a disturbance of ........... only:

There are three types of dysgraphia: deep, surface and phonological?

significant difficulties with learning but no documented disability such as ID or SLD is a:

Promoting membership in communicating society & participation in personally relevant activities

Impairment to lexically mediated writing, regular & nonwords written better than irregular word

Tests of specific linguistic skills include:

Oral Language skills are the foundation of good communication skills- both spoken and written

A homotypic comorbidity= reading disorder is a later impairment of what was originally a:

When asking about language development you should specifically ask about:

An assessment that is a cycle of test a skill, teach the skill, test the skill is?

A consumer driven service that supports PWA and others affected in achieving short & long goals

Non-fluent and effortful speech with agrammatism, impaired repeitions & impaired writing is:

AAC supports intentional communication, can facilitate receptive & expressive language and inc.

Assessment informs:

In PA: replacing, deleting or adding sounds is:

A discrepancy between spoken (auditory) & ? is a key indicatory of aud com diffic before semant

relates to the administration of a standardised and norm-referenced test

Why teach spelling?

Which approach recognises aphasia has an impact on PWA and their family, friends etc?

The continuous process of observation, identifying parental concerns an documenting development

Semantic relationship between target word and error e.g. chair for table is a:

Paragrammatisms and anomia are common in

PWA post 1 month should recieve intensive therapy can those with chronic aphasia still benefit?

The limitations of developmental scales are that they are:

A disorder than affects comprehension & use of spoken, written or non-verbal language

Receptive Aphasia is:

What type of aphasia's key feature is persistent and severe naming difficulties?

Aphasia has a profound impact on a persons life and can lead to:

determining communicative abilities, severity, differential diagnosis, informing therapy is:

Can you use monolingual aphasia treatment tasks for bilingual PWA?

Misidentification of one word for visually similar one: Lend-Land

Omission of function words and syntactic language structures, use of only content words is:

A subset of children with LD who have more severe and long lasting difficulties have a:

To improve communication and living with aphasia on one or several levels is:

Aphasia intervention principles are that therapy is based on evidence-based practice which is:

deficit in phonological input lexicon or access to it, difficulty distinguish real vs non words

AARP= access to aphasia therapy and says people with aphasia should be offered therapy for:

TIPS for pre-intentional infants are Take turns, Imitate, Point things out, Set the stage

Phonological Awareness: Children with strong oral language skills are more likely to have

What is the purpose of assessment?

key impact is on the ability to retain verbal info long enough to make accurate representations

In PA: recognising/providing words starting with the same sound is

Which approaches goal is to provide treatment for aspects of lang that have been damaged?

A comprehensive aphasia evaluation should extend beyond the domain of language also include:

DLD stands for Developmental Language Disorder?

inherited condition that makes it difficult to read, write & spell despite average intelligence

Form, Content and Use are the three major components of

The interaction between language domains and spoken and written systems is:

What term used for language difficulties in children that are not acquired or due to comordity

Environmental factors that restrict or prevent optimal funtioning are:

Does the goal for every child need to be to get them WNL for their age?

The origins of developmental language disorders are?

Which perspective involves listening for & to the life experiences & perspectives of PWA?

Problems understanding language, word retrieval, writing & naming problems are:

When children have the capacity to learn language but are behind their peers due to environment

Eat your breakfast is a

AOS, Dysarthria, Limb apraxia and visual field impairments may accompany:

Cognitive Factors: Processing skills refers to children whose processing skills may be in tact

Difficulty with visual specification at level of visual orthographic analysis win: fed- fin fed

In the CELF 4/5 the Core Language Score is the:

Expressing opinions & explaining, justifying them to others in higher language is:

Social stories are used to:

You can use phoneme-grapheme matching, phone discrim, spoken word picture matching as therapy

Having to work through logical steps to solve problems in higher language is

Determining if a language problem exists, what it's aetiology is and focus of intervention is?

Supralinguistic language is high level language that involves:

1;1 therapy, group therapy, computer-based, telerehabilitation, trained volunteers are all?

Environmental factors that enable or enhance functioning are:

Making a logical guess about what will happen next is

A simple sentence has

Key symptom is substitution rather than omission of morphology, typically in fluent aphasias

Forced use of verbal language therapy that is based on basic neuroscience 'use it or lose it'

SMART GOALS ARE

Which cognitive factory says language structures are autonomous of other cog systems?

good aud comp, may initially be mute, repetition-good, reading-good, writing-impaired =

Severity of aphasia varies depending on:

What is auditory bombardment?

Impairment to lexically mediated reading with orthographic-phono conversion preserved

Using the ICF- asking peers for objects in order to complete a classroom task is which level?

Auditory comp is severely impaired- may be non-verbal, impaired-reading, reps, writing

Content is made up semantics, form is structure of language, phonology, syntax, morphology

Which approaches explicit goal is to enhance participation and acknowledges impact of environm

In PA: matching, selecting odd one out, recognition and generation of rhyming words is

General Goals are basic, how goal is going to be achieved based on theory is intermediate so

Therapy often draws on intact systems to support treatment of impaired process

If a child is a late talker or has late language emergence they have a:

When you use the best research evidence, clinical expertise and patient preferences you are