SPAA 344 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
The speech & language outcomes of today's children with hearing loss are not limited by
the degree of hearing loss, and even profoundly hearing impaired children can develop age-
appropriate speech & language skills. What 3 factors have contributed to this outcome?
a) Increase in newborn hearing screening
b) Advances in hearing technology and aural rehabilitation
c) Increased auditory access at younger ages/Increased use of CI with young children
Today, even children with severe-to-profound hearing loss can develop age-appropriate
speech and language skills. Our intervention services today focus on helping children to:
develop speech and language skills close to the time that they were biologically intended.
In order for us as professionals to provide best practice support to a family, we must
provide them with a __________________ explanation of their communication options.
non-biased
3 main communication options for families of children with hearing loss
a) Systems emphasizing listening and spoken language (LSL)
b) Manual-visual systems
c) Systems combining visual and auditory information
What is Listening and Spoken Language (LSL)?
Developing spoken language as child's first language by maximizing audition
The auditory-oral approach emphasizes:
a) The need for using residual hearing
b) Consistent practice for developing spoken language
c) Full-time consistent use of amplification and/or cochlear implants
d) Children are typically educated in settings with peers with hearing loss
e) Children typically receive therapy targeting speech, language, and auditory development
, f) Speechreading is not explicitly taught but is also not discouraged
g) Parents are responsible for establishing full-time use of amplification
The auditory-verbal approach (AVT) emphasizes:
a) Use of residual hearing for developing spoken language
b) Highly reliant on the use of amplification and/or cochlear implants
c) Emphasizes auditory skills/cues
d) Focuses on teaching parents how to integrate listening and spoken language activities into
daily life
e) Parents must establish full-time use of devices
What is the role of amplification in the ASL approach?
It is not critical to this approach, but is an option
What is the essential element to success in ASL?
Access to adults fluent in ASL as an ongoing language model
What is the role of English in an ASL program?
It is developed later as a second language with an emphasis on reading and writing
What is Bilingual-Bicultural? (Bi-Bi)
This method is based on the premise that children will learn ASL as the first and primary
language with English taught as a second language in written form
Total Communication approach (TC)
a) Advocates the use of manually coded English, fingerspelling, speechreading, natural gestures,
residual hearing, and speech
b) Use of amplification and/or cochlear implants is usually encouraged
c) Families must learn manually coded English and fingerspelling. Families and teachers and
therapists would use simultaneous communication at all times
Requirements of Cued Speech
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
The speech & language outcomes of today's children with hearing loss are not limited by
the degree of hearing loss, and even profoundly hearing impaired children can develop age-
appropriate speech & language skills. What 3 factors have contributed to this outcome?
a) Increase in newborn hearing screening
b) Advances in hearing technology and aural rehabilitation
c) Increased auditory access at younger ages/Increased use of CI with young children
Today, even children with severe-to-profound hearing loss can develop age-appropriate
speech and language skills. Our intervention services today focus on helping children to:
develop speech and language skills close to the time that they were biologically intended.
In order for us as professionals to provide best practice support to a family, we must
provide them with a __________________ explanation of their communication options.
non-biased
3 main communication options for families of children with hearing loss
a) Systems emphasizing listening and spoken language (LSL)
b) Manual-visual systems
c) Systems combining visual and auditory information
What is Listening and Spoken Language (LSL)?
Developing spoken language as child's first language by maximizing audition
The auditory-oral approach emphasizes:
a) The need for using residual hearing
b) Consistent practice for developing spoken language
c) Full-time consistent use of amplification and/or cochlear implants
d) Children are typically educated in settings with peers with hearing loss
e) Children typically receive therapy targeting speech, language, and auditory development
, f) Speechreading is not explicitly taught but is also not discouraged
g) Parents are responsible for establishing full-time use of amplification
The auditory-verbal approach (AVT) emphasizes:
a) Use of residual hearing for developing spoken language
b) Highly reliant on the use of amplification and/or cochlear implants
c) Emphasizes auditory skills/cues
d) Focuses on teaching parents how to integrate listening and spoken language activities into
daily life
e) Parents must establish full-time use of devices
What is the role of amplification in the ASL approach?
It is not critical to this approach, but is an option
What is the essential element to success in ASL?
Access to adults fluent in ASL as an ongoing language model
What is the role of English in an ASL program?
It is developed later as a second language with an emphasis on reading and writing
What is Bilingual-Bicultural? (Bi-Bi)
This method is based on the premise that children will learn ASL as the first and primary
language with English taught as a second language in written form
Total Communication approach (TC)
a) Advocates the use of manually coded English, fingerspelling, speechreading, natural gestures,
residual hearing, and speech
b) Use of amplification and/or cochlear implants is usually encouraged
c) Families must learn manually coded English and fingerspelling. Families and teachers and
therapists would use simultaneous communication at all times
Requirements of Cued Speech
