Just For Adults Yes No Q
Just For Adults Yes No Q
Yes/No Questions
by Kathryn J. Tomlin
Skills Ages
reading and auditory comprehension 16 through adult
vocabulary Grades
language high school and up
word relationships
Evidence-Based Practice
According to the Clinical Guidelines of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
(www.rcslt.org/resources, 2005) and the National Stroke Association (2006), the following
therapy principles are supported:
Communication, both verbal and nonverbal, is a fundamental human need. Meeting this
need by facilitating and enhancing communication in any form can be vital to a patient’s
well-being.
Therapy should include tasks that focus on semantic processing, including semantic cueing
of spoken output, semantic judgments, categorization, and word-to-picture matching.
Therapy may target the comprehension and production of complex, as well as simple,
sentence forms.
Therapy should be conducted within natural communication environments.
Rehabilitation is an important part of recovering from a stroke, and the goal is to regain as
much independence as possible.
This book incorporates the above principles and is also based on expert professional practice.
Zanmi, Kathy’s Samoyed, goes to work with her to encourage the clients.
Her clients enjoy feeding and spending time with Zanmi, and Zanmi
enjoys their company. Everybody wins!
Dedication
This book is respectfully dedicated to Danielle Fedele. Thanks for all your help in using
the exercises in this series of books. I couldn’t have done it without you. May your
journey in the world of speech/language pathology be fulfilling and fruitful.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Short Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Object Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Safety Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Food Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Household Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Animal Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Yard and Garden Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Occupation Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
General Yes/No Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Two Item Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Picture with Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Before and After Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Before and After Questions with Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
One Sentence with Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Two Sentences with Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Paragraph with Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Many factors can hinder one’s ability to comprehend or answer these kinds of questions correctly,
such as:
These exercises in Just for Adults: Yes/No Questions address several levels of comprehension of yes/no
questions and begin with the easier level at the beginning of the book and progress to a harder difficulty
level. The tasks can be given orally, can be read and done independently, or can be read by a presenter
while the client is reading the question. When done graphically, the tasks require circling or marking the
yes or no answer.
On page 6, you will find a screening tool that is not to be used as a test but rather as a way to observe a
client’s use of strategies and reasoning patterns. Some questions to think about while observing how the
client completes the screening include:
These guidelines will help you present the activities in this book.
• A CD of the exercises in this book is included inside the back cover. You can photocopy the
pages as needed or print them directly from a printer using the CD.
• The goals of these exercises are to improve attention, mental manipulation of information, and
for comprehension of words and concepts. Be flexible with presentation and accept answers that
are different from your viewpoint if the client can give a logical explanation. The answers in the
Answer Key are provided as a reference and are not intended to be all inclusive.
• The exercises are not for testing purposes. Try to make doing them as enjoyable as possible.
Talking about the questions, particularly when correcting error responses, will likely improve
the ability to achieve the goals. Do not get into debates if the person is unable to see another
viewpoint for a response. Just move on to the next item.
• Be flexible with presentation and with accepting answers that differ from your viewpoint
if a logical explanation can be provided by the person. But there is a caution: You will
frequently have to remind the client to answer the questions “in general” as it is human
nature to try to think of the one or two exceptions and then generalize it to distort the best
answer for that item.
I hope you and your clients find these exercises enjoyable and beneficial.
Kathy
Is it safe to . . .
11. . . . ask for help when you are having difficulty? . . . . . . . . . Yes No
13. Do some people put relish and mustard on hot dogs? . . . Yes No
1. is thrown? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
2. is driven? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
3. is picked? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
4. flies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
5. is tied? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
6. is wet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
7. is hot? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
8. grows? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
9. walks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
9. Do you put out trash before the trash truck comes? . . . . . Yes No
10. Do you tie your shoes after you put them on? . . . . . . . . . Yes No
11. Do you set the alarm after you get up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
12. Do you rake leaves before they fall from the trees? . . . . . Yes No
1. The house was made of brick. It had white trim around the windows.
Was the house made of stone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
2. Her dog had long white hair. The woman had to brush her every day.
Did her dog have long white hair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
3. They felt like going out. They went to dinner and a movie.
Did they go out to eat? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
4. She liked science fiction movies. Her husband liked action films.
Did they like the same kind of movies? . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
5. The music was blaring loudly. She asked her son to turn it down.
Was the music too loud? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
8. We went to DisneyWorld for our vacation. The children loved the rides.
Did we go to Canada for our vacation? . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
9. She fell when she was getting out of the car. She was not hurt.
Did she fall when getting out of the car? . . . . . . . . . . . Yes No
It was a typical Saturday morning. The children were up early and made
a lot of noise in the family room. Their parents got up and went to the
kitchen to make breakfast. They decided to have pancakes with syrup,
orange juice, and yogurt. All of the children came into the kitchen when
they smelled the food cooking.
Everything was going wrong. When he got out of bed, he stubbed his
toe on the bedside table. He hobbled to the bathroom and the light bulb
blew out. When he went into the hall closet to get a new bulb, several
things on the top shelf fell on his head. After he put everything back on
the shelf, he realized he was out of light bulbs. He couldn’t go over to
the neighbor’s to borrow a bulb because his neighbor was on vacation.
So he decided to go back to bed and sleep until noon.
Howard and Jayne do their grocery shopping once a week. They like
to go on Tuesdays because that is when there is a 10% senior citizen
discount. Sometimes they get their prescriptions filled at the pharmacy
while they shop. Howard likes the bakery section best but Jayne makes
him put the sweets back. She wants him to eat healthy foods so she buys
a lot of fresh vegetables and fruit. They always have a fun time when
they shop.
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