All About Language

A dynamic assessment format is characterized as ?

• A static assessment format that only measures current knowledge.
• An assessment method that ignores learning potential.
• A standardized test with fixed questions and answers.
• An interactive and adaptive assessment method that focuses on learning potential.

The dinosaurs walked the earth during the Triassic period over 225 million years ago.

Identify how many bound morphemes are used in the sentence above?

• 3
• 4
• 2
• 1

You are planning your client’s goals and are following the PICO to help you with incorporating evidence-based practice.  Which one is not one of the four PICO elements?

• Process
• Intervention
• Comparison
• Outcome

Bloom and Lahey (1978) suggested language is comprised of three major aspects. What are those aspects?

• Structure, meaning, and context
• Syntax, vocabulary, and interaction
• Form, content, and use
• Grammar, semantics, and pragmatics

What information does a baseline provide?

• A baseline serves as a guideline for creative brainstorming sessions.
• A baseline is used to predict future trends without any data.
• A baseline indicates the final outcome of a project.
• A baseline provides a reference point for measuring performance or changes.

What is information do you want to collect for a comprehensive speech-language assessment?

• speech and language history, current abilities, developmental milestones, family history, medical and educational background.

• Gather only family history details (i.e., favorite food, toy...etc.) and medical history

• Focus solely on educational background and current information

• Collect only speech abilities during standardized/informal assessments and family history

You are conducting an assessment with an incoming kindergartener, Lucy S., who has difficulty with word endings. Specifically, she tends to omit the endings like -est (saying “sad” instead of “saddest”), - ily  (saying “angry” instead of “angrily”), etc. She is having difficulty with which aspect of language?

• Pragmatic skills
• Syntax

• phonology

• Morphology

Today, I’ll be completing a criterion referenced assessment on a 4^th grader.  What is the purpose of a criterion referenced assessment?

• To assess a student's performance compared to their peers.
• To determine a student's overall grade for the year.
• To measure a student's ability to take standardized tests.
• to assess whether a student can attain a certain level of performance

Which is not one of the three major purposes of intervention

• Change or eliminate the underlying problem

• Improve the child’s discrete aspects of language function by teaching specific behaviors

• Compensatory strategies, not specific language behaviors

• communicate outcomes to caregivers that can reasonably be expected at some future time

What aspects of language are considered form?

• Idioms, slang, tone, and style.
• Grammar, syntax, context, and morphology.

• Semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, and phonology.
• morphology, syntax, and phonology .