Week 5: Sentence Level Production Assessment

Question 1

informal assessment includes:

Answer 1

spontaneous speech

Question 2

spontaneous speech is elicited through:

Answer 2

1. sequence description
2. picture description
3. have a conversation

Question 3

do we analyze spontaneous speech?

Answer 3

1. correct information unit - the word is intelligible in the context, accurately used in relation to the stimuli, and its relative and informative (content focused, even if not grammatically correct)
2. quantitative production analysis: measure # of complete sentence in a sample

Question 4

what should we keep in mind regarding spontaneous speech?

Answer 4

it may not elicit more complex structures such as passives

Question 5

verb-centered treatment for sentence level production claims:

Answer 5

verbs contain info about argument structure - the verb affects the noun and other aspects for a sentence

Question 6

cuing verbs tx

Answer 6

patients produce sentence via structured practice producing verbs and arguments with repetition
level 1: produce S-V sentences
level 2: produce S-V-O sentences

Question 7

verb network strengthening tx

Answer 7

improve retrieval of content words with simple active sentences
- assumes that verbs are semantically associated with specific nouns

steps:
patient is given a verb, told to come up with agents and themes of sentences, then given sentences with the agents they picked, then they judge whether or not that made sense and move on to another verb

Question 8

syntactically oriented tx

Answer 8

sentence production program for aphasia

Question 9

sentence production program for aphasia

Answer 9

8 different sentence structures that are tested in story-completion format in order to elicit some target structure