FITZGERALD EXIT CERTIFICATION TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is a listening age?
Answer: Age from the day at which they get sound
⩥ What is the ideal age
Answer: 1,3,6 guidelines by EDHI screening by 1 month (OAE),
identification in place (ABR) by 3 months and then by 6 months they
would like hearing aids or early intervention by 6 months
⩥ What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Answer: Provides public access and publically funded entities, makes
sure you have access to an interpreter, captioning, etc.
⩥ What is the Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act (IDEA)?
Answer: For kids who are eligible and who have a disability (FM
setting, interpreter), modifications to instructions (instruction through
sign language, extended time for testing, modifying the level of content
that is effective)
⩥ What is a non-restrictive environment?
,Answer: Free and public education means there's no charge for
education with non-disabled peers
⩥ What are the 3 vocabulary tiers?
Answer: 1. Basic words that occur frequently in life (cat, dog, doll, baby,
clock etc.)
2. Frequent but found in sophisticated literature (coincidence, absurd,
fortunate, etc. )
3. Infrequent and tend to be limited to specific knowledge domains
(mathematics)
⩥ What are types of reading disorders?
Answer: 1. Dyslexia
2. Specific comprehension deficit
3. Mixed reading disability
4. Nonspecified reading disorder
⩥ What is SKIL?
Answer: Supporting knowledge in language & literacy
⩥ 5 levels of infant vocalizations:
, Answer: 1. Reflexive (0-2 months) - crying, grunting, burping,
coughing, sneezing etc.
2. Control of phonation (1-4 months) - cooing and gooing sounds, trills,
clicks, raspberries
3. Expansion (3-8 months) - vowel glides (eeey), experiment with
loudness and pitch of voice, squeal, marginal babbling (containing
consonant-like and vowel-like sounds)
4. Basic canonical syllables(5-10 months) - produce CV syllables (ba,
goo, etc.) reduplicated babbling consists of repeating CV pairs (ma ma
ma) while nonreduplicated or variegated babbling makes different CV
combinations (da ma goo ga)
5. Advanced forms/jargon (9-18 months) - being to produce dipthongs,
more complex syllable forms VC, CV, CCV, VCV
⩥ What are features of infant directed speech?
Answer: 1. Include high pitch
2. Exaggerated pitch contours
3. Slower tempos
4. Shorter MLU
5. More repetition
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is a listening age?
Answer: Age from the day at which they get sound
⩥ What is the ideal age
Answer: 1,3,6 guidelines by EDHI screening by 1 month (OAE),
identification in place (ABR) by 3 months and then by 6 months they
would like hearing aids or early intervention by 6 months
⩥ What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Answer: Provides public access and publically funded entities, makes
sure you have access to an interpreter, captioning, etc.
⩥ What is the Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act (IDEA)?
Answer: For kids who are eligible and who have a disability (FM
setting, interpreter), modifications to instructions (instruction through
sign language, extended time for testing, modifying the level of content
that is effective)
⩥ What is a non-restrictive environment?
,Answer: Free and public education means there's no charge for
education with non-disabled peers
⩥ What are the 3 vocabulary tiers?
Answer: 1. Basic words that occur frequently in life (cat, dog, doll, baby,
clock etc.)
2. Frequent but found in sophisticated literature (coincidence, absurd,
fortunate, etc. )
3. Infrequent and tend to be limited to specific knowledge domains
(mathematics)
⩥ What are types of reading disorders?
Answer: 1. Dyslexia
2. Specific comprehension deficit
3. Mixed reading disability
4. Nonspecified reading disorder
⩥ What is SKIL?
Answer: Supporting knowledge in language & literacy
⩥ 5 levels of infant vocalizations:
, Answer: 1. Reflexive (0-2 months) - crying, grunting, burping,
coughing, sneezing etc.
2. Control of phonation (1-4 months) - cooing and gooing sounds, trills,
clicks, raspberries
3. Expansion (3-8 months) - vowel glides (eeey), experiment with
loudness and pitch of voice, squeal, marginal babbling (containing
consonant-like and vowel-like sounds)
4. Basic canonical syllables(5-10 months) - produce CV syllables (ba,
goo, etc.) reduplicated babbling consists of repeating CV pairs (ma ma
ma) while nonreduplicated or variegated babbling makes different CV
combinations (da ma goo ga)
5. Advanced forms/jargon (9-18 months) - being to produce dipthongs,
more complex syllable forms VC, CV, CCV, VCV
⩥ What are features of infant directed speech?
Answer: 1. Include high pitch
2. Exaggerated pitch contours
3. Slower tempos
4. Shorter MLU
5. More repetition
