FINAL Flashcards
What is the difference between Apraxia and Dysarthria?
Apraxia-disturbances of neuromotor programming. Can exist without weakness/paralysis. Inconsistent errors
Dysarthria-Consistent errors due to neuromuscular impairment of speech mechanism
How to measure intelligibility
Collect speech sample from patient reading passage
must contain all phonemes
measured in %
Types of Team Evaluations
name 3
- Multidisciplinary: each discipline conducts own assessment and est. discipline specific goals.
- Interdisciplinary: Conducts own assessment but also communicates with other disciplines about results of assessments.
- Transdisciplinary: team members have ongoing dialogue in which they share info, knowledge, skills. One single assessment
Individualized Education Programs
Comprehensive written document indentifying the specialized resources needed to maximize academic success
Individualized Family Service Plan
Focus on child’s family
family is encouraged to identify their child’s likes, dislikes, strengths, and areas of need.
From IDEA
Family Centered Care
- Clarity
- Succinctness
- Redundancy
- Respectfulness
- Genuineness
Facilitative Play
5 techniques
Clinician arranges physical environment to encourage the child to generate target responses
- Self-talk: clinician observes while engaging in monologue describing clinician’s actions “I’m making a castle! A big castle. See how big it is?”
- Parallel Talk: Clinician produces ongoing commentary “You’re building a castle. It’s really big”
- Expansions: Reformulates child’s utterances into more grammatically complete
- Extensions/expectations: Enlarges child’s utterance by adding new semantic information.
- Recasts: Clinician expands the child’s utterances into different sentence type
Public Policy: No Child Left Behind
- Accountability for academic results
- flexibility that schools have in meeting law’s requirements
- Effective methods
- Options for parents
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Ensure all children with disabilities to have access to a _F_ree _A_ppropriate _P_ublic _E_ducation (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment
Americans with Disabilities Act
Purpose is to ensure individuals with disabilities
- participate fully in society
- live independently
- have access to economic self-sufficiency through removal of barriers
Five Titles of ADA
Title I- employment
Title II- public service
Title III- public accomodations operated by private entity
Title IV- telecommunication services
Title V-due process
Medicare
Assist individuals to meet costs of adequate health care. For individuals older than 65 who are elgible for disability
Balanced Budget Act & Medicare Modernization Act
Reduce overall spending on medicaid and slow growth of medicare.
Medicaid created to pay medical bills for persons of low SES
Consultative/collaborative model
Members of intervention team work together and share responsibility for client outcomes.
Direct vs Indirect Services
Direct: Clinician is face-to-face
Indirect: Clinician does not have hands on contact with client but consult with family members, teachers, etc
