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COMD 4450 EXAM 2026 LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
Differential diagnosis - correct answer --learning disabilities: when
a child tries hard and is still struggling with a specific set of skills
over time. Intelligence or motivation is not affected
-DD is necessary to determine the difference between and among
other disorders, syndromes, and factors that can interfere with the
acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, and math
abilities
Improving standardized tests for children from different cultural
backgrounds - correct answer --check that translation is correct
-include minorities in sample
-develop local norms
-remove biases
-parallel forms
-change scoring for dialectical variations
-use alternative assessment approaches
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Morphological development - correct answer --preschool/ early
school years
-start to use grammatical morphemes and MLU increases with
age
-children typically acquire a more general rule, then modify with
more applications
Prognosis - correct answer -predicts the likely or expected
development of a disease
-if signs and symptoms will improve or worsen
How to treat phonological disorders: minimal pairs - correct
answer --paired sounds
-contrasts child's error with the target sound in order to confront
the child with homonymy in their error period
-eliminate fronting, stops, glides, cluster reduction, and final
consonant deletion
-minimal pairs: words that differ in one phoneme "bat" and "bad"
How to treat phonological disorders: multiple oppositions - correct
answer --intervention for children who have several sound errors
as well as atypical or idiosyncratic errors
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-child is confronted with several sounds simultaneously within a
phoneme collapse; SLP introduces several phonemic splits
-several speech sound errors are targeted and contracted at the
same time
Idiosyncratic errors - correct answer --substitute /l/ for w, s, and sh
Nonverbal language/communication - correct answer -proxemics
and kinesics
Proxemics - correct answer --the way that use of space and
physical distance between speakers communicate
Kinesics - correct answer -way in which body movements are
used for communication; gestures to point or head shake for "no"
-vary by culture
Language - correct answer --phonology
-semantics
COMD 4450 EXAM 2026 LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
Differential diagnosis - correct answer --learning disabilities: when
a child tries hard and is still struggling with a specific set of skills
over time. Intelligence or motivation is not affected
-DD is necessary to determine the difference between and among
other disorders, syndromes, and factors that can interfere with the
acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, and math
abilities
Improving standardized tests for children from different cultural
backgrounds - correct answer --check that translation is correct
-include minorities in sample
-develop local norms
-remove biases
-parallel forms
-change scoring for dialectical variations
-use alternative assessment approaches
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Morphological development - correct answer --preschool/ early
school years
-start to use grammatical morphemes and MLU increases with
age
-children typically acquire a more general rule, then modify with
more applications
Prognosis - correct answer -predicts the likely or expected
development of a disease
-if signs and symptoms will improve or worsen
How to treat phonological disorders: minimal pairs - correct
answer --paired sounds
-contrasts child's error with the target sound in order to confront
the child with homonymy in their error period
-eliminate fronting, stops, glides, cluster reduction, and final
consonant deletion
-minimal pairs: words that differ in one phoneme "bat" and "bad"
How to treat phonological disorders: multiple oppositions - correct
answer --intervention for children who have several sound errors
as well as atypical or idiosyncratic errors
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-child is confronted with several sounds simultaneously within a
phoneme collapse; SLP introduces several phonemic splits
-several speech sound errors are targeted and contracted at the
same time
Idiosyncratic errors - correct answer --substitute /l/ for w, s, and sh
Nonverbal language/communication - correct answer -proxemics
and kinesics
Proxemics - correct answer --the way that use of space and
physical distance between speakers communicate
Kinesics - correct answer -way in which body movements are
used for communication; gestures to point or head shake for "no"
-vary by culture
Language - correct answer --phonology
-semantics
