Language Disorders in Children Flashcards
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Which federal law mandates free appropriate public education (FAPE) and related services, including speech-language pathology, for children with disabilities?
Answer: IDEA
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ensures FAPE and related services, including SLP services, for eligible children.
What is the purpose of language sample analysis (LSA) in evaluating a child's language?
Answer: To describe naturalistic language in terms of complexity and accuracy
Language sample analysis provides a descriptive, naturalistic measure of a child's spontaneous language use across multiple domains.
Which condition is associated with the language profile of hyperlexia, relatively strong decoding, but poor reading comprehension?
Answer: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Hyperlexia, characterized by early word decoding with poor comprehension, is frequently observed in children with ASD.
Phonological awareness intervention is particularly important for children at risk for which academic difficulty?
Answer: Reading disabilities
Phonological awareness is a critical predictor of reading acquisition, and deficits are strongly linked to reading disabilities like dyslexia.
Word finding difficulties in school-age children are most directly associated with deficits in which language domain?
Answer: Semantics and lexical access
Word finding difficulties reflect problems with semantic organization and lexical retrieval from long-term memory.
Which approach provides additional instructional support to at-risk children before a formal special education referral is made?
Answer: Response to Intervention (RTI)
RTI is a tiered prevention model that provides increasingly intensive instruction to at-risk children prior to special education eligibility determination.