Exam 2 Part 5 Flashcards
Screening tools must be ____ and ____
Valid and reliable
Purpose is to determine whether a full diagnostic evaluation is warranted
Screening
When might a speech sound screening be used?
Part of early intervention, 3rd grade when all speech sounds should be mastered, degree requirement or job interview process
Each English consonant should be evaluated in what 3 positions?
Initial, medial, final
If there is a way to get the child to produce correct sound with intervention
Stimulability
Why is stimulability important?
Phonological vs. articulation, figuring out if they could move the articulator to produce the sound, rule out apraxia
Summary of sounds the client has produce correctly or incorrectly
Phonetic inventory
What are the 3 advantages of considering distinctive features in the analysis of misarticulations?
Basis for efficient therapy, basis for selection of target sounds, evaluate the severity of incorrect sound production
What are the typical ratings of a speech sound disorder (4)?
Mild, mild-moderate, moderate-severe, severe
________ are used to describe how much of a child’s speech is understood by a given listener.
Percentages
What do you do if the speech sound disorder is severe that the child is unintelligible?
Break it down to see if the child can produce the sound correctly
Neurological motor planning disorder coming from the pre-motor cortex
Apraxia
What are some characteristics of apraxia?
Little-no intelligible speech, severe speech sound disorder, motor deficits, genetic/neurological etiologies, motor programming deficits, feeding difficulties, inappropriate prosody, inflexible babbling, inconsistent errors
What are some areas we should make statements after a speech sound evaluation?
Biological prerequisites, linguistic ability, phonetic inventories, distinctive features, response to stimulation by sound, phonological processes, intelligibility, severity, contexts where they are able to make the sound
