Articulation/Phonological Skills

Question 1

Comprehensive Battery Includes:

Answer 1

• Interview (how well is client is understood [by family, peers, strangers, etc.]?, does speech impairment affect functional skills? Which sound is most difficult?)
• Connected/Conversational Speech Sample
• Single Word/Citation Sampling
• Stimulability Sampling
• Contextual Testing
• Oral-Peripheral Exam
• Audiological Screening
• Speech Discrimination Testing

Question 2

Considerations for Standardized Measures

Answer 2

• materials
• age appropriateness
• sample obtained
• transcription method
• scoring/analysis

Question 3

What Is Needed?

Answer 3

• inventory of speech sound production (initial, medial, final)
• single word level/connected speech
• examples of errors

Question 4

Advantages

Answer 4

• short administration time
• provides sample of most/all English consonants & phonological processes in limited # stimuli
• clinician knows target
• can compare performance to norms

Question 5

Disadvantages

Answer 5

• sound production tested in single words
• limited phonetic context
• many don’t test vowel production
• only provides inventory of sounds sampled
• not enough opportunities
• reliability is questionable for diagnoses characterized by inconsistencies (CAS)

Question 6

Non-Standardized Measures

Answer 6

• independent analyses: describes child’s production regardless of accuracy & focuses on what child DOES without reference to adult standard
• relational analyses: describes child’s production in relation to adult standard & focuses on error processes
• intelligibility measures: rating scales, % consonants correct
• stimulability testing
• contextual testing