Treatment

Question 1

Key difference between treating articulation and phonological disorders

Answer 1

• Artic: each sound is targeted individually and trains the motor skill

-Phonological: Treats groups or classes of sounds and trains the representations of sounds

Question 2

Why is it challenging to keep articulation and phonological approaches separate?

Question 3

Define minimal opposition approach

Answer 3

use of pairs of words that differ by only one phoneme

Question 4

How are minimal pairs used in minimal opposition contrast therapy?

Answer 4

Used to teach sound contrasts

Question 5

How do you select targets for minimal pair therapy?

Answer 5

Sounds should share as many articulatory features as possible

The minimal pair should only differ in only one feature (if possible)

Ex: Tea and key (only differ in the place for the /t/ and /k/ sound throughout both words

Question 6

Define maximal oppositions approach

Answer 6

Teaching features not sounds

Hoping to rapidly teach a variety of sounds contrasts = rapid change observed

Question 7

Distinguish between minimal oppositions approach from maximal opposition

Question 8

When would you use the maximal opposition approach and how do you pick the targets?

Question 9

Describe the cycles approach

Question 10

How does the concept of cycles help in treating phonological processes?

Answer 10

Children that are highly unintelligible and are treated in a cycle.

Cycle might include stopping, gliding, cluster reduction, (multiple processes) and going back in that same order all over again

Not working on mastery and can take weeks to complete

One session per process

Re-test and if any process still has 40%, cycle through again until they hit below 40%

Question 11

What are primary patterns?

Question 12

Why are primary patterns targeted first in the cycles approach?

Question 13

What is the core vocabulary approach?

Answer 13

• Goal is to stabalize productions of specific words that are function for the child

Question 14

Why is selecting functionally relevant words critical in the core vocab approach?

Answer 14

Helps to reduce communication breakdowns and

Question 15

How does multiple oppositions therapy differ from minimal oppositions?

Answer 15

It is used for clients who use a certain phoneme for multiple other phonemes in error.

Question 16

In what situations is multiple oppositions best used?

Question 17

What does the term “phoneme collapse” mean?

Question 18

How is phoneme collapse addressed in the multiple oppositions approach?

Question 19

How can morphosyntax and vocab be targeted alongside speech sound therapy?