Chapter 6 vocab

Question 1

What is differential diagnosis?

Answer 1

Helps determine whether a child has an articulation disorder, a phonological disorder, childhood apraxia of speech, or developmental dysarthria

Question 2

What is reliability?

Answer 2

The consistency with which an event is repeatedly measured

Question 3

What is validity?

Answer 3

The degree to which a test or other measuring instrument measure what it claims to measure

Question 4

What is The information-getting interview?

Answer 4

The verbal interview, generally takes place prior to or at the initial part of the assessment

Question 5

Functional is also known as:

Answer 5

idiopathic speech sound disorder

Question 6

What is a standard score?

Answer 6

A statistical measure in standardized norm-referenced tests that indicated by how many standard deviation an individuals test score is above or below the mean

Question 7

What is percentile ranking?

Answer 7

A statistical ranking on a standardized norm referenced test that indicated the proportion of students in the norm group that scored the same or lower than the target student

Question 8

What is age-equivalent?

Answer 8

A type of standardized test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population

Question 9

What are Individualized Education Programs?

Answer 9

A federally and state mandated program for children with disabilities and special needs who qualify for special education services in the public school system

Question 10

What is delayed imitation?

Answer 10

the clinician casually names the picture and then moves on to the next stimulus word

Question 11

What is immediate imitation?

Answer 11

Childs immediate imitation of the modeled target response

Question 12

What is stimulability?

Answer 12

The childs tendency to make correct or improved production of a misarticulated sound when given a model or additional stimulation by the examiner.

Question 13

What is a facilitative phonetic context?

Answer 13

a surrounding sound or group of sounds that has a positive influence on the production of a misarticulated phoneme

Question 14

What are key words?

Answer 14

a word or words in which a typically misarticulated sound is made correctly; can be used in therapy to stabilize the production of the sound across words

Question 15

What is phonetic inventory?

Answer 15

sounds that the child can produce regardless of accuracy in relation to an adult target and that are available for the child to form words

Question 16

What are phonotactic constraints?

Answer 16

Word positions in which specific sounds do not occur in the childs speech

Question 17

What is phonemic inventory?

Answer 17

Sounds the child can produce contrastively to make distinctions between words

Question 18

What is an exemplar?

Answer 18

A response that illustrates the target behavior

Question 19

What is Multidisciplinary evaluation team ?

Answer 19

A group of persons, including teachers, parents, and qualified specialists, who evaluate the abilities and needs of a child to determine whether the child meets eligibility for special education services under an individualized education program in his or her public school

Question 20

What is frequency of occurrence?

Answer 20

The clinician simply applies the number of times a particular phonological pattern occurred in the childs speech sample

Question 21

What is percentage of occurrence?

Answer 21

The clinician determines the number of times the child used a particular phonological pattern in relation to the total number of opportunities for occurrence of the pattern

Question 22

What is aprosody?

Answer 22

flat prosody

Question 23

What is dysprosody?

Answer 23

inappropriate variation in frequency and duration