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Academic Language Therapy Flashcards

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  1. A student struggles to hold a sequence of phonemes in memory while blending them into a word. This deficit most directly implicates:

    Answer: Phonological working memory

    Holding and manipulating phoneme sequences during blending relies on phonological working memory, a core deficit in many students with dyslexia.

  2. Which assessment tool is a standardized diagnostic instrument specifically designed to assess phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming?

    Answer: Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP)

    The CTOPP is the primary standardized tool measuring phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming across age groups.

  3. When teaching spelling using the CALT approach, which step typically comes FIRST in a structured lesson plan?

    Answer: Review of previously learned phonograms

    Structured literacy lessons begin with review of previously learned material before introducing new content, reinforcing automaticity through cumulative practice.

  4. A student decodes accurately but reads word-by-word with no expression. The MOST appropriate intervention target is:

    Answer: Reading fluency and prosody

    Word-by-word reading without expression indicates a fluency deficit; prosody instruction helps bridge accurate decoding and fluent, meaningful reading.

  5. Which morpheme type changes the grammatical function of a word, such as turning a verb into a noun?

    Answer: Derivational morpheme

    Derivational morphemes change word class or meaning, such as adding '-tion' to 'act' to create the noun 'action.'

  6. Which of the following best describes the purpose of an error analysis in academic language therapy?

    Answer: To identify consistent patterns that reveal the student's underlying processing breakdowns

    Error analysis identifies systematic patterns in student mistakes that reveal specific phonological, orthographic, or morphological processing weaknesses to target in instruction.

  7. A therapist is teaching a student to recognize that the suffix '-ed' can represent three different sounds (/t/, /d/, /ɪd/). This instruction primarily targets:

    Answer: Morphophonological knowledge

    Understanding how a morpheme's pronunciation varies by phonological context is morphophonological knowledge, bridging morphology and phonology.