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EXTX 650 - Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers 100% Verified.
Main therapy targets for early intervention include: - Answer✔▪ Localization
▪ Joint/Shared Attention
▪ Mutual Gaze
▪ Joint Action and Routines
▪ Vocalizations
▪ Communicative Intent
▪ Nonsymbolic/Symbolic Play
▪ Initial Vocabulary
Main therapy targets for children 3-5 years old include: - Answer✔▪ Increased utterance length
▪ Development of morphological forms
▪ Understanding of complex sentences
▪ Vocabulary rapidly grows
▪ Development in the area of emergent literacy
-Exposure and interaction with print
Main therapy targets for school age children include: - Answer✔▪ Phonological awareness
▪ Basic literacy skills
-Decoding
-Fluency
-Reading comprehension
▪ Writing
Narrative form --> various expository writing
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Which therapy strategy focuses on building the foundations of social, emotional, and
intellectual capacities in young children? - Answer✔Floortime/Developmental, Individual
Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR)
To what age range does the term "early intervention" refer? - Answer✔Birth-3 years
Shared book reading should incorporate: - Answer✔▪ When choosing books:
-Expose the child to a variety of genres of literature at developmentally appropriate content
and complexity
-Select patterned stories with repetitive themes and well-developed plot structure
▪ While reading:
-Ask questions (e.g., what happened, what might happen next)
-Engage in print referencing (i.e., highlight aspects of print with comments, gestures, and
tracking print)
-Encourage recounting of familiar experiences in daily life (e.g., grocery shopping) and personal
event narratives (e.g., daddy cooking dinner)
Phonological Awareness includes: - Answer✔▪ A metalinguistic skill involving the manipulation
of the sound structure of language through the rhyming, blending, and segmenting of words,
syllables, or phonemes.
▪ A child's control of sounds at the phoneme level is predictive of decoding and spelling skills.
▪ A common task is asking a child to say a word such as fat and then having them say it again
without the /f/.
▪ Children and adolescents with language/learning impairments often display difficulty with
these types of tasks, such as the one listed above.
Voiced stops include: - Answer✔▪ /b, d, g/
▪ (Pretty sure this is wrong) Substitution of a stop for a fricative or affricate
▪ EX: /top/ for soap
▪ Stopping of 'v' and 'z' outgrown by 4yrs
▪ Stopping of 'sh, ch, j' voiced and voiceless 'th' outgrown by 5yrs
Example of this process is /tæn/ for pan - Answer✔▪ Alveolarization
-Substitution of an alveolar phoneme for a labial or linguadental phoneme
-Outgrown by 5yrs
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EXTX 650 - Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers 100% Verified.
Main therapy targets for early intervention include: - Answer✔▪ Localization
▪ Joint/Shared Attention
▪ Mutual Gaze
▪ Joint Action and Routines
▪ Vocalizations
▪ Communicative Intent
▪ Nonsymbolic/Symbolic Play
▪ Initial Vocabulary
Main therapy targets for children 3-5 years old include: - Answer✔▪ Increased utterance length
▪ Development of morphological forms
▪ Understanding of complex sentences
▪ Vocabulary rapidly grows
▪ Development in the area of emergent literacy
-Exposure and interaction with print
Main therapy targets for school age children include: - Answer✔▪ Phonological awareness
▪ Basic literacy skills
-Decoding
-Fluency
-Reading comprehension
▪ Writing
Narrative form --> various expository writing
1
, ©THESTAR 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 12:43 PM.
Which therapy strategy focuses on building the foundations of social, emotional, and
intellectual capacities in young children? - Answer✔Floortime/Developmental, Individual
Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR)
To what age range does the term "early intervention" refer? - Answer✔Birth-3 years
Shared book reading should incorporate: - Answer✔▪ When choosing books:
-Expose the child to a variety of genres of literature at developmentally appropriate content
and complexity
-Select patterned stories with repetitive themes and well-developed plot structure
▪ While reading:
-Ask questions (e.g., what happened, what might happen next)
-Engage in print referencing (i.e., highlight aspects of print with comments, gestures, and
tracking print)
-Encourage recounting of familiar experiences in daily life (e.g., grocery shopping) and personal
event narratives (e.g., daddy cooking dinner)
Phonological Awareness includes: - Answer✔▪ A metalinguistic skill involving the manipulation
of the sound structure of language through the rhyming, blending, and segmenting of words,
syllables, or phonemes.
▪ A child's control of sounds at the phoneme level is predictive of decoding and spelling skills.
▪ A common task is asking a child to say a word such as fat and then having them say it again
without the /f/.
▪ Children and adolescents with language/learning impairments often display difficulty with
these types of tasks, such as the one listed above.
Voiced stops include: - Answer✔▪ /b, d, g/
▪ (Pretty sure this is wrong) Substitution of a stop for a fricative or affricate
▪ EX: /top/ for soap
▪ Stopping of 'v' and 'z' outgrown by 4yrs
▪ Stopping of 'sh, ch, j' voiced and voiceless 'th' outgrown by 5yrs
Example of this process is /tæn/ for pan - Answer✔▪ Alveolarization
-Substitution of an alveolar phoneme for a labial or linguadental phoneme
-Outgrown by 5yrs
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