CSD 523 TOP EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What are speech sound disorders? - CORRECT ANSWERS When children are not able to
produce all speech sounds by the appropriate age (6-7 years)
What are other names for speech sound disorders? - CORRECT ANSWERS Articulation or
phonological disorders
How may severity differ from one person to another? - CORRECT ANSWERS Severity can
range from completely unintelligible to only a few slightly mispronounced sounds
At what age should children have all of their speech sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS 6-7
years
What is the most common disorder on an SLP's caseload? - CORRECT ANSWERS SSD
What must SLP's be able to describe? - CORRECT ANSWERS The child's ability to: 1.
Produce speech sounds clearly, 2. Perceive speech sounds accurately, 3. Combine speech
sounds into words
Which treatment approach did E.W. Scripture recommend? What is it called now? - CORRECT
ANSWERS "negligent lisping" now known as "stopping of fricatives"
Who came up with the treatment programs relative to the cause of the disorder? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Lee Edward Davis
,What was Grant Fairbanks' contribution to the field? - CORRECT ANSWERS Wrote a
manual for treating voice and speech sound disorders in adults and children - Voice and
Articulation Drillbook. Huge supporter of good listening skills as essential in correcting a SSD
What therapy approach did Charles Van Riper establish? What is the name of his book that
recommends procedural steps for this approach? " - CORRECT ANSWERS "traditional
approach" - introduced new sound to client and then worked through increasingly complicated
speaking, Speech Correction-Principles and Methods
What assessment did Mildred Templin publish? - CORRECT ANSWERS Templin-Dartey
Tests of Articulation
How did Mildred Templin change the approach to treatments for misarticulations? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Changed belief that articulation disorders were due to psychological factors
and could be treated by treating those factors
Difference between auditory, acoustic, and articulatory phonetics? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Auditory-perception of sounds; acoustic-transmission of sounds; articulatory-
production of sounds
What is the mental representation of a sound? - CORRECT ANSWERS phonemes
What are the actual sounds you speak (the smallest units of speech) - CORRECT
ANSWERS phones
What is an allophone? - CORRECT ANSWERS Non-distinctive unit; another way to
pronounce a phoneme (dialects, accents)
,How are allophones different from errored speech sounds? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Allophones are not incorrect, pronunciation can differ based on location,
accent, etc.
What is orthography? - CORRECT ANSWERS Set of conventions for written language
How many vowel and consonant symbols are in IPA? - CORRECT ANSWERS 18 vowels, 24
consonants
Why was the IPA created? - CORRECT ANSWERS It has unambiguous symbol-sound
relationship
How are IPA consonants classified? - CORRECT ANSWERS manner, placing, voicing
Who are diacritics used for? - CORRECT ANSWERS Voiced vs. voiceless, aspirated,
nasalized, lateral release, etc.
What is the difference in phonetic transcription and phonetic repertoire? - CORRECT
ANSWERS PT-abstract representation of a speaker's articulatory knowledge; PR-inventory
of the phones produced by a speaker (including incorrect phones)
What systems are included in the speech production system? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Respiratory system, phonatory system, articulatory system
What is the energy source of the speech production system - CORRECT ANSWERS air
How many resonating cavities are there in the articulatory system? - CORRECT
ANSWERS 3-nasal cavity, oral cavity, pharyngeal cavity
, What is the vocal tract influenced by? - CORRECT ANSWERS Movements of the tongue
(also lips, teeth, and palate) - articulators
Which articulators are moveable? - CORRECT ANSWERS Tongue, jaw, lips, soft
palate/velum
Which articulators are fixed? - CORRECT ANSWERS Teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate
How are consonants classified? - CORRECT ANSWERS place, manner, voicing
Places of articulation - CORRECT ANSWERS bilabial, labio-dental, lingua-dental, lingua-
alveolar, lingua-palatal, lingua-velar, glottal
List the different manners of articulation - CORRECT ANSWERS stops/plosives, fricatives,
affricates, nasals, liquids, glides
Which consonants are voiced? - CORRECT ANSWERS m, n, ng, b, d, g, l, r, w, v, z, zh
Which consonant is a voiced, lingua-alveolar fricative? - CORRECT ANSWERS /z/
What must happen in the vocal tract for a nasal to be produced correctly? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Lowering of velum and allowing air to escape through nasal cavity rather than
oral cavity
What is the most sophisticated and coordinated activity performed by humans? - CORRECT
ANSWERS speech
ANSWERS
What are speech sound disorders? - CORRECT ANSWERS When children are not able to
produce all speech sounds by the appropriate age (6-7 years)
What are other names for speech sound disorders? - CORRECT ANSWERS Articulation or
phonological disorders
How may severity differ from one person to another? - CORRECT ANSWERS Severity can
range from completely unintelligible to only a few slightly mispronounced sounds
At what age should children have all of their speech sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS 6-7
years
What is the most common disorder on an SLP's caseload? - CORRECT ANSWERS SSD
What must SLP's be able to describe? - CORRECT ANSWERS The child's ability to: 1.
Produce speech sounds clearly, 2. Perceive speech sounds accurately, 3. Combine speech
sounds into words
Which treatment approach did E.W. Scripture recommend? What is it called now? - CORRECT
ANSWERS "negligent lisping" now known as "stopping of fricatives"
Who came up with the treatment programs relative to the cause of the disorder? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Lee Edward Davis
,What was Grant Fairbanks' contribution to the field? - CORRECT ANSWERS Wrote a
manual for treating voice and speech sound disorders in adults and children - Voice and
Articulation Drillbook. Huge supporter of good listening skills as essential in correcting a SSD
What therapy approach did Charles Van Riper establish? What is the name of his book that
recommends procedural steps for this approach? " - CORRECT ANSWERS "traditional
approach" - introduced new sound to client and then worked through increasingly complicated
speaking, Speech Correction-Principles and Methods
What assessment did Mildred Templin publish? - CORRECT ANSWERS Templin-Dartey
Tests of Articulation
How did Mildred Templin change the approach to treatments for misarticulations? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Changed belief that articulation disorders were due to psychological factors
and could be treated by treating those factors
Difference between auditory, acoustic, and articulatory phonetics? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Auditory-perception of sounds; acoustic-transmission of sounds; articulatory-
production of sounds
What is the mental representation of a sound? - CORRECT ANSWERS phonemes
What are the actual sounds you speak (the smallest units of speech) - CORRECT
ANSWERS phones
What is an allophone? - CORRECT ANSWERS Non-distinctive unit; another way to
pronounce a phoneme (dialects, accents)
,How are allophones different from errored speech sounds? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Allophones are not incorrect, pronunciation can differ based on location,
accent, etc.
What is orthography? - CORRECT ANSWERS Set of conventions for written language
How many vowel and consonant symbols are in IPA? - CORRECT ANSWERS 18 vowels, 24
consonants
Why was the IPA created? - CORRECT ANSWERS It has unambiguous symbol-sound
relationship
How are IPA consonants classified? - CORRECT ANSWERS manner, placing, voicing
Who are diacritics used for? - CORRECT ANSWERS Voiced vs. voiceless, aspirated,
nasalized, lateral release, etc.
What is the difference in phonetic transcription and phonetic repertoire? - CORRECT
ANSWERS PT-abstract representation of a speaker's articulatory knowledge; PR-inventory
of the phones produced by a speaker (including incorrect phones)
What systems are included in the speech production system? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Respiratory system, phonatory system, articulatory system
What is the energy source of the speech production system - CORRECT ANSWERS air
How many resonating cavities are there in the articulatory system? - CORRECT
ANSWERS 3-nasal cavity, oral cavity, pharyngeal cavity
, What is the vocal tract influenced by? - CORRECT ANSWERS Movements of the tongue
(also lips, teeth, and palate) - articulators
Which articulators are moveable? - CORRECT ANSWERS Tongue, jaw, lips, soft
palate/velum
Which articulators are fixed? - CORRECT ANSWERS Teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate
How are consonants classified? - CORRECT ANSWERS place, manner, voicing
Places of articulation - CORRECT ANSWERS bilabial, labio-dental, lingua-dental, lingua-
alveolar, lingua-palatal, lingua-velar, glottal
List the different manners of articulation - CORRECT ANSWERS stops/plosives, fricatives,
affricates, nasals, liquids, glides
Which consonants are voiced? - CORRECT ANSWERS m, n, ng, b, d, g, l, r, w, v, z, zh
Which consonant is a voiced, lingua-alveolar fricative? - CORRECT ANSWERS /z/
What must happen in the vocal tract for a nasal to be produced correctly? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Lowering of velum and allowing air to escape through nasal cavity rather than
oral cavity
What is the most sophisticated and coordinated activity performed by humans? - CORRECT
ANSWERS speech
