CH. 5 - Speech Sound Development and Disorders

Question 1

4 year old in therapy. Substitutes th/s, t/f, w/r, d/th, and j/l. What sound will you address first?

Answer 1

/f/.

Question 2

reduplicated babbling comes before what?

Answer 2

variegated babbling (natural course is phonation stage, cooing stage, expansion stage, redup babbling, var babbling)

Question 3

which word contains a consonant cluster: bus, stopped, rich, lassie, shoes

Answer 3

stopped

Question 4

phonetic placement is used to teach or establish ________.

Answer 4

production of a phoneme in isolation.

Question 5

4 yr old has trouble with consonant clusters in words like spring, street, squirrel. is this normal for his age? what do you tell the parent?

Answer 5

this is typical. should master 2-element clusters like sp, st, sk and will acquire 3-element clusters like the ones he is having trouble with at a later age.

Question 6

what is this phonological process: guck/duck; cow/tao

Answer 6

backing

Question 7

The artic tx approach that emphasizes the syllable as the basic unit of speech production and heavily uses the concept of phonetic environment is..

Answer 7

McDonald’s sensorimotor approach.

Question 8

4 yr 3 mo old demonstrates gliding, cluster reduction, stopping, reduplication, and final-consonant deletion. which process do you address first?

Answer 8

reduplication (should have been faded out by 2.5 yrs old).

Question 9

is it important to look for dental deviations as an SLP

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

Explain the “cycles” approach

Answer 10

by Hodson and Paden, linguistic approach. the clinician introduces correct patterns, gives the child limited practice with production of those patterns, and moves on to other error patterns. for highly unintelligible kiddos w/ lots of speech errors.

Question 11

too/shoe is what?

Answer 11

stopping

Question 12

distinctive features approach involves what

Answer 12

using minimal pairs & trying to find the child’s underlying patterns and then training one or several sounds in those patterns in hopes that generalization to other sounds in the patterns would continue

Question 13

what should you tell an asian professor who comes to see you bc she got poor student evals saying students could not understand her (due to accent)

Answer 13

• tell her you will assess her english intelligibility using an accent assessment instrument
• you will analyze a conversational speech sample
• she can participate in accent training
• she does not have a communication disorder!

Question 14

what phonological process is this: tar/kar; do/go; ti/ki

Answer 14

fronting of velar sounds