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Auditory Comprehension: Focus on Memory (Professionals)

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1.  Auditory memory skills should be taught
  1. In routines first
  2. Across situational contexts
  3. In structured contexts only
  4. None of these
2.  In general, to demonstrate comprehension of auditory input, a child must
  1. Repeat or imitate what was heard
  2. Turn toward what was heard
  3. Show that s/he heard it
  4. Respond in a novel way
3.  The term given to the management and manipulation of information pulled from short and long-term memory is
  1. Working memory
  2. Sensory memory
  3. Fading memory
  4. None of these
4.  The Pisoni and Geers study cited by the author found positive correlations between working memory as measured by digit span and which of the following
  1. Speech perception
  2. Language skill
  3. Reading
  4. All of these
5.  After "encoding" and "storage", the third process involved in auditory memory is
  1. Localization
  2. Retrieval
  3. Decoding
  4. None of these
6.  One teaching technique specifically cited as being important to build into activities targeting auditory memory is
  1. Turn taking
  2. Acoustic highlighting
  3. Prompting
  4. All of these
7.  Specifically, turn taking is a valuable tool because it allows the teacher/therapist a chance to model
  1. Rehearsal strategies
  2. Association strategies
  3. Chunking strategies
  4. All of these
8.  All but the following tasks involve auditory memory:
  1. Answering questions
  2. Sequencing a list of objects
  3. Eye widening at the sound of a knock on the door
  4. Choosing an object based on several descriptors
9.  A clinician/teacher might cycle through auditory memory goals with a child/student because
  1. Comprehension is the most difficult auditory level to achieve
  2. Subskills may be addressed at different language levels
  3. Children might get bored otherwise
  4. None of these
10.  According to the presenter, in order to assist a child in reaching his/her maximum potential, it is important to incorporate the following into activities that target auditory memory:
  1. Thinking skills
  2. Discrimination skills
  3. Negotiating skills
  4. All of these

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