Exam 2 Part 2

Question 1

Underbite, openbite, crossbite

Answer 1

Class III

Question 2

What features of the teeth do we look at in an oral mech exam?

Answer 2

Malocclusion, position of teeth, missing teeth

Question 3

What features of the tongue do we look at in an oral mech exam?

Answer 3

Size, muscle tone, strength, surface (smooth, fissures, fasciculations)

Question 4

What features of the hard palate and soft palate do we look at in an oral mech exam?

Answer 4

Color, size and shape of palatal vault, clefts, uvula, fauces

Question 5

A bifid uvula may indicate a _____

Answer 5

Sub-mucous cleft

Question 6

What color should the hard or soft palate be?

Answer 6

Pink or white

Question 7

How do we assess the function of the oral mechanism?

Answer 7

Can the client perform the task, ROM within normal limits, smooth movement

Question 8

Diadochokinetic rates increase until age __

Answer 8

8

Question 9

What are some additional assessment measures?

Answer 9

Hearing screening, language testing, cognitive appraisal, auditory perceptual testing

Question 10

Used only if collapsing 2 or more phonemic contrasts into a single sound (e.g a child hears lake, wake, rake as lake)

Answer 10

Auditory perceptual testing

Question 11

What sounds can a child make

Answer 11

Inventory of speech sounds

Question 12

Patterns of consonants and vowels (CV, CVC, etc.)

Answer 12

Inventory of syllable shapes

Question 13

Are there speech sounds that the child produces in certain positions (initial, medial, final)

Answer 13

Constraints on sound sequences

Question 14

Unknown cause of a disorder

Answer 14

Functional

Question 15

Disorder caused by neurological or structural deviations

Answer 15

Organic