TEXES 181 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔the study of morphemes- a unit of language that is meaningful,
cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful units.
✔✔semantics - ✔✔it's meaning
✔✔Pragmatics - ✔✔is how language is used.
✔✔Questions - ✔✔Lower eyebrows
HELP-ME WHO CAN?
✔✔Negation - ✔✔Shaking your head
frowning
Some people use the sign, "NOT"
I HAPPY
✔✔Commands - ✔✔Raised your eyebrows.
Sign Firmer and bigger
YOU SIT!
✔✔Topicalization - ✔✔Subject-verb-object word order
BOY THROW BALL
Object, subject-verb word order
BALL BOY THROW
✔✔Rhetorical Question - ✔✔Index- (he)
FAIL CLASS WHY? STUDY- neg.
✔✔Conditionals - ✔✔Raise eyebrows
TOMORROW RAIN? GAME CANCEL
✔✔What is the typical hearing loss caused by otitis media? - ✔✔20 dB
✔✔How long after receiving a cochlear implant do students typically know when their
implants are not functioning? - ✔✔6 months
✔✔The nasal cavity is included in the__________________________________. -
✔✔vocal tract
✔✔A cochlear implant has which of the following parts? - ✔✔It has a microphone, a
speech processor, a transmitter and receiver/stimulator, and an electrode array.
, ✔✔What type of reinforcement can come in the form of food, toys, and awards? -
✔✔Tangible reinforcers
✔✔Norm referenced assessments - ✔✔Z-scores use a number range that goes from -4
to 4. A score of 0 is considered average. Numbers 1-4 are scores that are considered
above average. Numbers -1 to -4 are considered below average.
✔✔Which of the following compares individual student scores to the scores of other
students? - ✔✔standard score
✔✔The American Sign Language Proficiency Assessment requires how many language
samples to be taken? - ✔✔3: interview, peer interaction, and retelling a story
✔✔Of the following, which is true about ambient noise? - ✔✔It competes with the
teacher's voice.
✔✔Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for whom? - ✔✔Both deaf and hearing
students. He set up the library Volta Bureau which holds information about deafness.
Lastly, he conducted the very first national census of deaf people.
✔✔Auditory-Verbal Therapy - ✔✔is to teach children how to use the sound provided
from a cochlear implant or hearing aid. Some include ling 6 sound test, modeling,
suprasegmentals residual hearing, hearing age, motherese, acousti highlighting, and
the hand cue.
✔✔Which of the following is the most significant difference between American Sign
Language and spoken English Language?
A. The primary articulators of ASL are mostly hidden, but they are obvious in spoken
English.
B. The primary articulators of ASL are obvious, but they are mostly hidden in spoken
English.
C. ASL does not have a system of grammar, but spoken English does.
D. ASL uses gestures, but spoken English does not. - ✔✔The primary articulators of
ASL are obvious, but they are mostly hidden in spoken English.
✔✔Early hearing intervention and early exposure to language learning for deaf and
hard-of-hearing children is normally associated with
a. slow language progress in spite of increased language exposure.
b. significant increases in verbal IQ and achievement scores.
c. more efficient vocabulary learning and word use.
d. reading on grade level in the elementary grades. - ✔✔more efficient vocabulary
learning and word use.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔the study of morphemes- a unit of language that is meaningful,
cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful units.
✔✔semantics - ✔✔it's meaning
✔✔Pragmatics - ✔✔is how language is used.
✔✔Questions - ✔✔Lower eyebrows
HELP-ME WHO CAN?
✔✔Negation - ✔✔Shaking your head
frowning
Some people use the sign, "NOT"
I HAPPY
✔✔Commands - ✔✔Raised your eyebrows.
Sign Firmer and bigger
YOU SIT!
✔✔Topicalization - ✔✔Subject-verb-object word order
BOY THROW BALL
Object, subject-verb word order
BALL BOY THROW
✔✔Rhetorical Question - ✔✔Index- (he)
FAIL CLASS WHY? STUDY- neg.
✔✔Conditionals - ✔✔Raise eyebrows
TOMORROW RAIN? GAME CANCEL
✔✔What is the typical hearing loss caused by otitis media? - ✔✔20 dB
✔✔How long after receiving a cochlear implant do students typically know when their
implants are not functioning? - ✔✔6 months
✔✔The nasal cavity is included in the__________________________________. -
✔✔vocal tract
✔✔A cochlear implant has which of the following parts? - ✔✔It has a microphone, a
speech processor, a transmitter and receiver/stimulator, and an electrode array.
, ✔✔What type of reinforcement can come in the form of food, toys, and awards? -
✔✔Tangible reinforcers
✔✔Norm referenced assessments - ✔✔Z-scores use a number range that goes from -4
to 4. A score of 0 is considered average. Numbers 1-4 are scores that are considered
above average. Numbers -1 to -4 are considered below average.
✔✔Which of the following compares individual student scores to the scores of other
students? - ✔✔standard score
✔✔The American Sign Language Proficiency Assessment requires how many language
samples to be taken? - ✔✔3: interview, peer interaction, and retelling a story
✔✔Of the following, which is true about ambient noise? - ✔✔It competes with the
teacher's voice.
✔✔Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for whom? - ✔✔Both deaf and hearing
students. He set up the library Volta Bureau which holds information about deafness.
Lastly, he conducted the very first national census of deaf people.
✔✔Auditory-Verbal Therapy - ✔✔is to teach children how to use the sound provided
from a cochlear implant or hearing aid. Some include ling 6 sound test, modeling,
suprasegmentals residual hearing, hearing age, motherese, acousti highlighting, and
the hand cue.
✔✔Which of the following is the most significant difference between American Sign
Language and spoken English Language?
A. The primary articulators of ASL are mostly hidden, but they are obvious in spoken
English.
B. The primary articulators of ASL are obvious, but they are mostly hidden in spoken
English.
C. ASL does not have a system of grammar, but spoken English does.
D. ASL uses gestures, but spoken English does not. - ✔✔The primary articulators of
ASL are obvious, but they are mostly hidden in spoken English.
✔✔Early hearing intervention and early exposure to language learning for deaf and
hard-of-hearing children is normally associated with
a. slow language progress in spite of increased language exposure.
b. significant increases in verbal IQ and achievement scores.
c. more efficient vocabulary learning and word use.
d. reading on grade level in the elementary grades. - ✔✔more efficient vocabulary
learning and word use.
