Week 10: Phases of TX and Goal Planning Guidelines

Question 1

establishment phase

Answer 1

working on goals but trying to elicit a target sound and help the child produce that sound spontaneously

• can include perception and production tasks (mostly production)
• eliminating maintaining factors

Question 2

generalization phase

Answer 2

session goals are directed toward extending the domain of production of target sound (generalization)
once we’ve established them, making sure the child can produce sounds in a variety of enviroments

Question 3

maintenance phase

Answer 3

session goals are directed toward more complex generalization activities (e.g. spontaneous conversation)
making clients more responsible for monitoring his own productions

Question 4

aspects of intervention planning

Answer 4

1. determining goals: making decisions about what we want to improve and how long it should take
2. determining procedures: making decisions about approaches and techniques to be used by the clinician to facilitate achievement of goals

Question 5

goal planning guidelines help…

Answer 5

you to map out your structure to achieve goals and how they relate to one another

Question 6

long term goals

Answer 6

ultimate client change

- general area of communication that will be targeted

Question 7

short term goals

Answer 7

semester-long (in school) goals
lead to LTG
targeted behavior within general taxonomy stated in LTG

Question 8

session goals

Answer 8

what your doing day to day, session to session

achievement of session goals leads to STG

Question 9

four considerations of selecting target behaviors

Answer 9

1. choose behaviors that will make an immediate and socially significant difference in the communication skills of the client
2. choose useful behaviors that will be reinforced in other natural settings
3. choose behaviors that expand communication skills
4. choose behaviors that are linguistically/culturally appropriate for the individual

Question 10

prioritizing and selecting goals (4 points)

Answer 10

1. look at order of acquisition in normal language development
2. evaluate context: are structures produced or not produced in specific enviroments
3. do goals interact? can they be targeted simultaneously?
4. do any goals have a greater impact than other on the communicative ability on a client (can the child produce sounds that are in their name?)

Question 11

goal writing should include…

Answer 11

• describing what the client will do
• be observable and measurable
• be based on developmental norms or with reference to linguistic taxonomies
• LTG and STG corelate

Question 12

in establishing LTG, what do we need to know to determine what the client needs to modify before dismissal

Answer 12

• clients baseline behaviors

- maintaining factors