Week 10: Short-Term Goals: Phonological Processes

Question 1

what are four ways to consider skills that can be trained in a short period of time?

Answer 1

1. choose processes that will result in early success
2. choose processes that are crucial for the individual child
3. choose processes that affect early sound because we’re working from a developmental perspective
4. choose processes that interact with one another

Question 2

how can you choose processes that will result in early success or that would be easy to remediate?

Answer 2

• a process that is not used consistently (can be easier to change)
• a process that will impact intelligibility greatly (e.g. FCD)
• a process that affect sounds that are in the child’s inventory already
• a process that the child is stimulable for

Question 3

how can you choose processes that are “crucial” for the individual child?

Answer 3

• select processes that are deviant or idiosyncratic
• select processes that contribute significantly to the child’s reduced intelligibility
• select processes that result in homonymy (when words all sound the same)

Question 4

why might you choose processes that affect early sounds?

Answer 4

because we are working from a development perspective

Question 5

why might you choose processes that interact with one another?

Answer 5

you want to choose processes that affect the greatest amount of sounds

Question 6

other considerations when choosing processes to work on with a child (3)

Answer 6

frequency of processes used
range of sounds included in a process
stage of process dissolution (what is emerging, what might take more time?)

Question 7

as clinicians we are responsible for indicating or proving….

Answer 7

why a goal is chosen as a specific point

Question 8

how to defend your choice:

Answer 8

stating developmental norms
evidence of assessment
support decisions with research evidence when possible