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3 parts of evidence-based practice - Answer external scientific evidence, clinical
expertise/expert opinion, client/patient/caregiver perspectives
external scientific evidence - Answer the scientific evidence regarding the symptoms and the
treatments for those symptoms
clinical expertise/expert opinion - Answer their own experience with and knowledge about
the symptoms and their treatment
client/patient/caregiver perspectives - Answer the preferences, perspectives, values, and
choices of a fully informed client or client caregiver
fringe therapies - Answer treatments for which there is no valid scientific support
assessment - Answer the systematic process of gathering information about an individual's
background, history, skills, knowledge, perceptions, and feelings
what type of information is gathered in an assessment - Answer info in one or more of the
following areas: language, speech, cognition, feeding, swallowing, voice, fluency, hearing
multidisciplinary process - Answer a process the involves many professionals who bring their
diverse knowledge, skills, and experiences to the assessment
4 purposes of assessment - Answer - to identify skills or lack of skills
- guide the design on interventions
- monitor communicative growth
- qualify individual for special services if needed
5 stages of assessment - Answer screening/referral, designing and administering the
assessment protocol, interpret assessment findings, developing intervention plans, monitoring
progress/outcomes
screening - Answer the use of a test or task to conduct a quick check of an individual's
performance in a particular area
, referral - Answer the process by which the involvement of speech, language, and hearing
professionals is formally requested
common techniques to obtain information - Answer chart review, interviews, systematic
observation, questionnaires/surveys, formal tests, instrumentation
chart review - Answer the systematic examination of documents prepared by various
professionals to record an individuals developmental, educational, and medical history
interview - Answer a vehicle for collecting information from individuals, their families and
caregivers, and other professionals who can aid in understanding the nature, history, and extent
of the problem
systematic observation - Answer the process of observing how an individual uses
communication for functional purposes in activities in the read world
questionnaire/survey - Answer formal mechanisms for gathering information from clients,
their family members, and relevant professionals
formal test - Answer a standardized test to evaluate a person's communicative skills in a
standardized manner
instrumentation - Answer assessment of a communication disorder using technological
instrumentation
offline assessment - Answer the use of assessment tasks that study communicative processes
after they happen
online examination of performance - Answer the study of a communicative process as it
happens
norm-referenced tests - Answer used to compare an individual's performance in a particular
area with that of his/her same-age peers
3 important qualities of norm-referenced tests - Answer standardization, normative sample,
and standard scores
standardization - Answer a test is given in exactly the same uniform and scripted manner to
everyone who takes it