Childhood assessment Flashcards
What are the components of the Evaluation of Speech Sound Disorders?
History
Contributing Factors
Screening
Analysis
Language Evaluation
OME
Determine diagnosis
Providing information
What are contributing factors to speech sound disorders?
Medical/neurological factors
Hearing
Dental problems
Motor development
Intelligence and cognition
Age/gender
Family history
Primary language, dialect, culture
Motivation and level of concern
What does the history portion consist of?
Written case history
Intake interview
Information from other professionals
What does assessment of speech sound disorders consist of?
Screening
Formal and informal testing
Speech sampling
Stimulability of errors
What does analysis of speech sound disorders consist of?
Number of errors
Error types
Form of errors
Consistency of errors
Intelligibility
Rate of speech
Prosody
What is the purpose of screening?
Quickly identify those who are WNL and those who are not
What tools are used for screening?
Formal tools
Informal tools
Apps (Little Bee Speech, Smarty Ears)
What are the cons of using formal tests during screening?
Only elicit phonemes in one phonetic context (words)
Only looking at word level so cannot see effects of articulation
Some only look at consonants, no vowels
Does not account for disorders with variable sound production
What are examples of formal tests that can be used during screening?
Arizona-4
Goldman Fristoe
CAAP-2
Hodson assessment of Phonological Patterns
What does a speech sample allow you to analyze?
Error types
Patterns of errors
Number of errors
Consistency of errors between sample and artic tests, within same sample, between samples
Correctly produced sounds
Intelligibility
Speech rate
Prosody
What is stimulability?
Ability to produce a correct (or improved) production of a previously incorrect phoneme
Stimualbility provides ____ information
Diagnostic
How can you assess stimulability?
The clinician produces the phoneme correctly and has the client imitate it
Tell the client explicitly how to produce the phoneme
Mirror, tongue depressor, tactile feedback
What are developmental norms used for?
Normative data that helps us know if a child is developing within normal expectation
What are the cons of using developmental norms?
They use the average age that the skill develops/occurs
Norms may be skewed because true norms are from a randomly collected sample and this is usually not the case
Norms change and disagree from study to study
What are the pros of using developmental norms?
Useful for estimating approximately how well the child’s sounds are developing
What is frequency of occurrence and what does it tell us?
Sounds that are used more in speech and affect intelligibility the most
/n/ /t/ /s/ /r/ /d/ /m/ represent about 1/2 the consonants used in English
j ch sh th are least used