Exam 3

Question 1

What is required of the SLP in order to approach intervention as a practice? (SLP as a scientist)

Answer 1

Integrate anatomy, physiology, neurology, normal development, and evidence based practice as related to speech sound disorders

Question 2

What is required of the SLP in order to approach intervention as a practice? (SLP as a humanist)

Answer 2

Communicate effectively, empathy and compassion, respect client’s POV and culture, develop understanding of people

Question 3

Concerned with human welfare, values, and dignity

Answer 3

SLP as humanist

Question 4

What is required of the SLP in order to approach intervention as a practice? (SLP as an artist)

Answer 4

Being flexible with intervention, know when and how to use an intervention technique, saying and doing something at the right time, making creative therapy

Question 5

Focuses on the mechanics of producing individual speech sounds; a type of treatment for speech sound disorders

Answer 5

Evidence based practice

Question 6

What are some examples of evidence based practice for speech sound disorders (4)?

Answer 6

Ear training, sound isolation, non-meaningful sound combinations, meaningful syllables and concepts

Question 7

What is articulation intervention dependent on (4)?

Answer 7

Age of child, types of speech sound errors, severity of errors, impact on speech intelligibility

Question 8

How many articulation intervention sessions are needed?

Answer 8

More the better; depending on the facility and depends on the child

Question 9

The length of an articulation session is dependent on what 3 things?

Answer 9

Age, attention, stimulability

Question 10

What 3 things can affect a child and family members’ communication?

Answer 10

Attitude, emotional response, breakdown repair strategies

Question 11

What is required of the SLP to provide effective articulation intervention (5)?

Answer 11

Good listener, able to process errors immediately, positive reinforcement, immediate feedback, create environment for elicitation

Question 12

Focus is on INDIVIDUAL sounds in isolation with various vowels; phonetic drill, small increments of change, working with specific articulatory movements to produce a sound “correctly”

Answer 12

Traditional articulation intervention

Question 13

True or false: in articulation therapy, there can be variation of movements that will effectively produce the same sound

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What are the 7 steps of a standard approach to articulation intervention?

Answer 14

auditory discrimination, produce sound in isolation by imitating SLP, produce sound in various combinations, establish the target sound in the initial position, then the final position, and then the middle position of words in one syllable, two syllable and multiple syllable words, establish sound in phrases and sentences, establish sound in controlled speaking (storytelling), develop generalization of the sound to spontaneous speech

Question 15

What order should you establish a target sound?

Answer 15

Initial, final, medial

Question 16

Focus is on the phonological system as a WHOLE rather than individual target speech sounds; work on groups of sounds, less focus on producing target sound

Answer 16

Evidence based practiced for phonological disorders

Question 17

To teach the rules for the correct usage of a specific distinctive feature; using minimal or contrastive pairs, produce two sounds (one that has the feature and one that does not)

Answer 17

Distinctive features approach

Question 18

once a feature is acquired, it frequently tends to ______ to other sounds

Answer 18

Generalize

Question 19

What are the distinctive feature hierarchy of steps (7)?

Answer 19

Isolation, nonsense syllables, words, phrases, sentences, stories, spontaneous speech

Question 20

What are the 5 areas of impact for the emotional and social effects of articulation and phonological disorders?

Answer 20

Verbal communication, advance learning, applied learning and general tasks, basic learning, interpersonal interactions