The components of an AAC system are crucial to consider during an assessment. When assessing a young child, you evaluate the way the individual will use
... [Show More] and interact with the system, including the user interface, selection method, and output. What type of components are being described?
secondary components
The structure at the inferior portion of the tongue that connects the tongue with the mandible is called the
lingual frenulum
All of the following can be used to screen for aphasia except:
duration aphasia screening test-II
In June, you are asked to assess the language skills of Tony, a boy with Down syndrome. He is 4 years 9 months old, and his parents tell you that they want him to begin kindergarten in September, when he turns 5. You assess Tony's receptive and expressive language skills, and you find that he has an average mean length of utterance of 3.0. He has an expressive vocabulary of 300 words. He over regularizes past-tense inflections and sustains a topic of conversation approximately 20% of the time. What do you tell Tony's parents?
tony's language skills are generally commensurate with those of a 2- to 3-year-old child, and starting kindergarten in september would be difficult for him.
Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) are
the lowest levels of hearing at which a person can understand 50% of the words presented.
Which of the following is the most common form of mixed cerebral palsy?
Spastic-dyskinetic
A high school teacher refers a Mandarin-speaking 16-year-old to you for an evaluation. The student and his family came to the United States 2 years ago from China. The teacher says that the student does well academically, but she shares that she has difficulty understanding him when he speaks. When you screen the student, you find some articulation and language differences. Which one of the following would not be predictable based on the student's first language of Mandarin?
Substitutions of f/th (e.g., fick/thick)
Rongomaiwhenua was diagnosed with apraxia of speech (AOS). She displays an inability to follow commands and perform voluntary speech movements. Recently, she has been diagnosed with nonverbal oral apraxia (NVOA), a diagnosis that often co-occurs with AOS. With this diagnosis, it can be expected that a lesion would most likely exist in the:
frontal and central opercula [Show Less]