The High School Nurse Is Intending to Present a Class

question 30

Multiple Choice

The high school nurse is intending to present a class on potential health problems associated with body piercing and tattooing.What piece of information is critical to planning the class?

• A) Culture affects health-care practices and forms of communication.
• B) Adolescents are eager to be told what to do regarding health-care practices.
• C) Physical maturity and cognitive maturity occur at the same rate.
• D) Peer-group practices need not be a consideration when planning a class on potential health problems.

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Definitions:

Naming Explosion

A rapid increase in vocabulary that typically occurs in early childhood.

Expressive Explosion

A rapid increase in a child's vocabulary and expressive language skills, usually occurring between the ages of 18 months to 2 years.

Mean Length Of Utterance

A measure used in language development research of children, calculating the average number of morphemes (units of meaning) used in their sentences.

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in linguistics to calculate and analyze the complexity of children's language development by averaging the length of their spoken statements.