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Keep it Fresh: Ideas for Language Development (Professionals)

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1.  In order to assist a child with a hearing loss to achieve the ultimate goal of true conversational competency, the professional should consider generalization of skills, at all times and in all settings during the habilitation process once the entire hierarchy of auditory functions (detecting, identifying, comprehending) has been covered once a child has a core vocabulary and some conversation skills early, and guide families and other professionals to take over once child has been dismissed from structured therapy

2.  In the therapy setting, there are virtually limitless opportunities for the following: Structured activities Routine activities Naturalistic exchanges All of the above

3.  When considering carryover of particular language goals into the regular education classroom setting, note that: Classrooms are largely based on routines that can be capitalized on Regular education teachers are versed in the need for generalization work on auditory skills Opportunities for natural exchanges are plentiful and require little monitoring by the hearing professional Offering "push-in" services will serve little purpose for experienced teachers

4.  Routine and naturalistic exchanges are excellent opportunities to address which of the following in addition to vocabulary and syntax goals? Rules of grammar Word derivations Social language All of the above

5.  A pretend play scenario such as grocery shopping would be best used for a child who is working at the Complex sentence level Simple sentence level Phrase level Any of these

6.  One approach to planning for language targets suggested today is based on the concept of schemata. In this context, the presenter related this term to: Coordinating difficulty levels between auditory and language skills Considering language structures that would be inherently natural to a particular situation Coding outcomes systematically None of the above

7.  For example, which verb tense is most naturally used when sharing pictures/photographs with another person? Past tense Present-progressive tense Imperative Present tense

8.  Strategies that might be helpful in building receptive and expressive language skills through listening include Turn taking Providing choices as a prompt Acoustic highlighting All of the above

9.  Modeling with a third communication partner is a strategy that a teacher or therapist might consider using with a child in order to stimulate which of the following language goals? Appropriate question forms Appropriate social greetings Pronoun usage All of these

10.  A clinician/teacher might cycle through auditory comprehension goals with a child/student because Comprehension is the most difficult auditory level to achieve Subskills may be addressed at different language levels Children might get bored otherwise None of these