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What type of assessments should you give to determine if a speech sound disorder exists? -
correct answer ✔✔A. Score the STANDARDIZED TESTS
B. Analyze the CONVERSATIONAL SAMPLE
C. Collect data from HEARING SCREEN/OP EXAM/MED HISTORY
How do you analyze the conversational sample? - correct answer ✔✔Through...
1. Independent Analysis
2. Relational Analysis
3. Intelligibility
What is Independent Analysis? - correct answer ✔✔(for analyzing a conversational sample)
-Just see what the child can/can't do.
-Good for young/unintelligible kids.
-Child's speech sounds are described w/out reference to the adult model.
-Determines the sounds in a child's phonetic inventory
-Determines prosodic patterns, artic features & syllable structure
What is Relational Analysis? - correct answer ✔✔(for analyzing a conversational sample)
The child's production is compared to the adult target to identify:
-types of errors
-absent distinctive features
-phonological errors
, -whole-word acquisition patterns
-phonemic inventory
What is Intelligibility Analysis? - correct answer ✔✔(for analyzing a conversational sample)
-what % of words in the sample were understood by an unfamiliar listener?
-compare to norms for the child's age
What results would indicate that NO DISORDER exists? - correct answer ✔✔-errors are related
to a 2nd language
-errors are w/in normal range for age
-errors are so slight/subtle that they have no negative effect on listeners
What results would indicate that therapy is necessary? - correct answer ✔✔The 3 analyses
(Independent, Relational, Intelligibility) indicate results lower than normal range for age.
-the child's and family's feelings about the speech
-Social, academic or future vocational life
What are the steps of the DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS? - correct answer ✔✔1. Does a speech sound
disorder exist?
2. What's the nature of the problem, if it does exist?
3. What is the severity of the disorder?
4. What are possible compounding or related factors?
5. What is the prognosis for improvement?
6. Is treatment appropriate?
Some possible origins of articulation disorder are... - correct answer ✔✔A. Known organic origin
(hearing loss/cleft lip/dental malocclusion, etc.)