AND ANSWERS
What is the main goal of intervention for L4L? - Answer- To develop a literate language
using appropriate service delivery models.
What should therapy interventions for advanced language learners focus on? - Answer-
Higher critical thinking for literate language instead of decoding
What should SLP's consider with advanced language learners? - Answer- If the disorder
can be cured, compensated or changed
Half of the youth with LLD enroll in post-secondary school (same rate as general
population), T or F? - Answer- False
Processing Dependent Tasks are informal measures used to assess CLD students, T or
F? - Answer- True
In CLD children, word revisions, latency, pauses, and dysfluencies are not indicators of
language impairment, T or F? - Answer- True
Teach to activate semantic and phonological information about the word is a word
retrieval intervention, T or F? - Answer- True
Therapy for most adolescents functioning in the Advance Language Stage includes the
following major considerations - Answer- teaching compensatory, life-long learning
strategies & transition planning.
Timed naming practice and visual word maps are a good way to improve word finding
skills, T or F? - Answer- True
The primary language focus of teens in the Advanced Learning Stage is - Answer-
Pragmatics
L4L Intervention Principles - Answer- curriculum-based instruction, integrate oral and
written language, support metalinguistics, consider RtI
L4L Intervention Approaches - Answer- Clinician-directed, client/student-directed, hybrid