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Clinical PracticeTypes of delivery models - correct answer direct, indirect, consultative, multidisciplinary, trans disciplinary Continuing Education - correct answer enables clinicians to update their skills by keeping up with the latest trends and advances in their discipline. Textbooks, workshops, articles, and taking courses are all forms of this. Service Delivery Model - correct answer Individual/Group services - intense one-on-one natures setting targeting one or several specific communication skills. VERSUS two or more patients who are apt to be working on similar speech skills or who need practice with additional speech partners. Continuum of care - correct answer transition through the various settings of therapy Assessment - correct answer it is necessary to document by means of assessment, the type and severity of each client's communication disorder in order to establish the client's eligibility for services. Diagnosis - correct answer outcome of the assessment in the determination of the presence or absence of a communication disorder. Prognosis - correct answer How much do you think the intervention will help this child Screening - correct answer evaluation to determine eligibility of service. Baseline - correct answer a minimum or starting point used for comparisons Case-history interview - correct answer each assessment begins with gathering of information about the client and his or her communication disorder. Case history, questionnaires, norm referencing tests, and criterion referencing tests are all included in this. norm-referenced tests - correct answer FORMAL. Provides standard scores, percentile ranks, and equivalent scores that reference the individual performance compared to similar individuals. Criterion-Referenced tests - correct answer measures compares skills to certain predetermined expectations. May or may not be standardized. Standard Scores - correct answer how far from the average score a particular raw score falls. Standard Deviation - correct answer distance a score falls from the average. Percentile Ranks - correct answer another way to represent where an individual score falls in comparison to the normal distribution. the percentile rank represents the percentage of people preforming at or below a particular score. The 50th percentile is the mean. Age-Equivalent Scores - correct answer an age equivalent is the raw score that is average for a given age; a grade equivalent is the raw score that is average for a particular grade. Test Validity - correct answer when a test accurately measures what it claims to measure. Validity is measured in test manuals as a correlation statistic that can range from 0.0 to 1.0. Inter-rater reliability - correct answer is measured by having one tester give a client a test and score it, and then have a second tester do the same and comparing the two scores. These two scores should be quite close together in order to show that the test has high interrater reliability. Behavioral observations - correct answer behavioral observations describe behavior in a systematic way, without reference to predetermined criteria. Typically conducted in a comfortable communication setting. Dynamic assessment - correct answer allows the clinician to determine how clients respond to different support strategies. One of the goals of dynamic assessment is to determine what approaches or intervention techniques will promote change in the client.