Chapter 1 Flashcards
What percent of typical school-based SLP’s caseload involve children with SSDs?
56%
What percent of clinicians working in the public schools have served children with SSDs?
91%
What percent of the population had a communication disorder?
10%
Of those in the population with a communication disorder, what percent have an SSD?
50 to 80%
What is the prevalence rate of SSD in 6-yr old children?
3.8%
What is the prevalence rate of SSDs in 3-yr olds?
15 to 16%
What is the differential prevalence rate of SSDs in boys?
4.5%
What is the differential prevalence rate of SSDs in girls?
3.1%
What are the risk factors for SSDs?
Male gender Family history Low maternal education Low SES OME
True or False:
Children with SSDs may have coexisting language or communication disorders and may experience academic difficulties.
True: especially literate language difficulties
Distinctive Features is associated with who?
Chomsky and Halle
Phonological constraints is associated with which theory?
Optimality theory
Stampe is associated with which theory?
Linear theory/Natural Phonology
Phonological process analysis is associated with who?
Grunwell and Hodson
Define Articulation Disorder:
Movement disorder; no cognitive or linguistic problem; few errors; keep phonological contrasts; intelligible speech
Define Phonological Disorders:
Underlying problem in phonological knowledge; loss of phonemic contrast; multiple speech errors that follow a pattern
Define Phonological Processes/ Error Patterns:
A child’s way of simplifying adult productions
Typological classification of SSDs
based on behavioral characteristics (symptoms)
Etiological classifications of SSDs
Based on presumed causation of the disorder
Endophenotypic classifications of SSDs
Based on an observable speech disorder (oral-motor skills, speed, vocab, etc)
Typically have significant genetic influence
