Exam 4

Question 1

What is PCC and what is it used for?

Answer 1

Percentage of consonants correct; OBJECTIVE approach to calculating the severity of a speech sound disorder

Question 2

What is the scale for PCC?

Answer 2

Mild: 85%-100%
Mild-moderate: 65% -85%
Moderate- severe: 50% - 65%
Severe: <50%

Question 3

How PCC is completed in 3 steps

Answer 3

1. Clinician obtains and transcribes a speech sample of 50-100 words from the client
2. Clinician counts the total of 3 of consonants and the total number of correct consonants
3. Use equation

Question 4

What is the PCC formula?

Answer 4

of correct consonants / 3 total consonants

X100

Question 5

What is the distinctive features approach?

Answer 5

A method using targets to help develop characteristics of phonemes that a client cannot produce proficiently yet. Compare the target sound with another sound that contrasts it to help give the client a reference point

Question 6

What are CHOMSKY & HALLE’S 16 features?

Answer 6

Vocalization 
Consonantal 
High 
Back
Low

Anterior
Coronal 
Round 
Tense 
Continuant

Nasal 
Strident
Sonoran
Interrupted 
Lateral 
Voiced

Question 7

What is a sonorant and what 7 consonants are considered sonorants?

Answer 7

Sonorant are sounds made by allowing the airstream to pass relatively unimpeded through the oral or nasal cavity

H, m , n, ng, l, r, w, j(y)

Question 8

High consonants (8)

Answer 8

K
G
Sh
3
Ch
D3
Ng
J(y)

Question 9

What is anterior?

Answer 9

Sounds made with a point of constriction located farther forward than the palatal sh

Question 10

What is Coronal consonants? List the 13

Answer 10

Sounds made with the tongue blade raised above the neutral position require for the production of ‘uh’

T,d,s,z,sh,3,sh,d3, voiced th, voiceless th, n,l, r

Question 11

Tense consonants

Answer 11

Sounds made with a relatively greater degree of muscle tension or contraction at the root of the tongue

Question 12

Continuant consonants

Answer 12

Sounds made with an incomplete point of constriction. The sire flow is not entirely stopped at any point

Question 13

Strident consonants

Answer 13

Sounds made by forcing the airstream through a small opening, resulting in the production of intense noise

Question 14

Who may benefit in non-speech oral motor exercises (7)

Answer 14

Dysarthria
Apraxia of speech 
Down syndrome 
Dysphagia 
Hypotonia
Structural anomalies 
Cerebral palsy

Question 15

Name 8 different therapy materials

Answer 15

1. Articulation station app
2. All in one articulation program & materials kit
3. Artic chipper chat
4. 100 trials articulation
5. Expanding expression tool kit
6. Oral motor treatment
7. Speech car road mats
8. Webber’s jumbo articulation book

Question 16

4 typical sound errors produced in the Spanish dialect.

Answer 16

Deletion of t, d, k, &; g.
Trilled r substituted for liquid r
“Eh” before s consonant clusters in initial position
B/v

Question 17

3 general guidelines to treating bilingual children

Answer 17

1. Treat phonological pattern exhibited with similar error rates in both languages
2. Treat phonological pattern that are exhibited two languages with unequal frequency
3. Treat pattern that are evident in only one language

Question 18

Japanese errors that are most likely exhibited?(6)

Answer 18

R for l 
S for th (vl)
Z for th (vd)
J for th (vd)
B for v 
Vowel at end of word

Question 19

What is included in a phonological short term goal (3)

Answer 19

Phonological process
Level of complexity
Criterion

Question 20

Wha this included in traditional short term goal? (4)

Answer 20

Phoneme
Position
Level complexity
Criterion

Question 21

What is included in a long term goal

Answer 21

Target bx
Criterion
Situation/level