CSD 367K Test 2

  1. Most articulation errors fall into one of what three categories?
    • Omissions
    • Substitutions
    • Distortions
  2. An articulation disorder is a _____ disorder that affects the _____ level. It is just _____ based.
    • Speech
    • Phonetic
    • Production
  3. All vowels should be developed by age ___.
    3
  4. Sounds such as /p/, /m/, and /b/ are learned as early as ___ years.
    3
  5. /s/, /r/ and /l/ often are not completely mastered until ____
    the early school years.
  6. Children should make all of the sounds of English by ___ years of age.
    8
  7. The most common error sounds are _____.
    /s/, /l/ and /r/
  8. Most common cause of an articulation problem is the result of _____.
    chronic otitis media
  9. What are some structural and/or neurological issues that can cause and articulation problem?
    • cleft palate
    • dental abnormalities
    • cerebral palsy
    • mental retardation
    • inner ear hearing loss
  10. ______ articulation problems - children who do not have problems with muscle function, structural abnormalities or deficiencies in perception.
    Functional
  11. What are some measurements of articulation?
    • Oral-facial examination
    • speech intelligibility
    • speech-language sample
    • speech rate
    • standardized testing
  12. ______ refers to the "understandability" of a person's spoken output.
    Intelligibility
  13. List two features of intelligibility.
    • Match between the intention of the speaker and what was received by the listener
    • Ability to use speech and language to communicate effectively in everyday situations
  14. By 3 years of age a child's spontaneous speech should be at least ____% intelligible to unfamiliar adults.
    50
  15. By 4 years of age, a child's spontaneous speech should be ________.
    intelligible to unfamiliar adults
  16. Gordon-Brannan and Hodson found that any child above the age of 4 years with a speech intelligibility score of less than ___% (less than _____ of utterances understood by unfamiliar listeners should be considered a candidate for intervention.
    • 66
    • two-thirds
  17. ________ requires listener to assign a number to each recorded stimulus - where 1=completely unintelligible, 9=completely intelligible.
    Interval scaling
  18. ________ requires an estimate (percentage) of parts of a sentence which are understood.
    Direct magnitude estimation
  19. When analyzing a speech-language sample, each utterance should be transcribed _____.
    verbatim
  20. Speech rate can impact ____ and ____.
    • articulation
    • intelligibility
  21. Speech rate norms are not as important as ________.
    the individual's rate
  22. What can you use to identify appropriate targets?
    • Standardized assessment results
    • - selection of speech sounds
    • - age appropriateness
    • speech-language sampling
    • - effect on intelligibility
    • - frequency of occurrence
    • stimulability
  23. What are some ways to select sound targets?
    • Stimulable or non-stimulable sounds?
    • Sounds that have greatest impact on intelligibility?
    • Sounds that are the furthest behind? (norm-based)
  24. What are three ways to attack the goals?
    • Vertical
    • Horizontal
    • Cyclical
  25. What is the vertical attack strategy?
    Work on one target sound at a time until the child masters it, then move on to the next target sound.
  26. What is the horizontal attack strategy also called _____?
    • a multiple sound or multi-phonemic approach
    • Work on several target sounds all at the same time. As each sound is mastered, add in another target sound.
  27. What is the cyclical attack strategy also called ____?
    • a "cycles" approach
    • Work on each target sound by itself for a specific period of time. Regardless of progress, switch to next target sound for the same amount of time, then switch to the next target sound, etc. Check progress and start cycle again. Drop out any target sounds that have been mastered.
  28. What is the five-step therapy sequence for articulation?
    • 1. Production of the sound in isolation.
    • 2. Production in nonsense syllables.
    • 3. Production in words.
    • 4. Production in structured phrases/sentences.
    • 5. Production in spontaneous speech.
  29. You will always try _____ first with production in isolation.
    imitation
  30. You will likely not use nonsense words with a(n) _____ client.
    articulation
  31. Familiar words vs. nonsense words:
    Should be taken on a(n) __________ basis. Some kids have an easier time producing familiar words than nonsense words.
    case-by-case
  32. _________ is used to get the child to form a longer utterance.
    Carrier phrase
  33. Carrier phrases support production in _____.
    syntactic frame
  34. Spontaneous speech goes from sentence to ____ to _____.
    • monologue
    • dialogue
  35. With articulation patients, if accuracy reaches at least ___% accuracy in spontaneous speech, child can be dismissed.
    50
  36. When you dismiss a patient for articulation, you want to have them come back in _____ to make sure everything is on track as predicted.
    3-6 months
  37. What are some common types of oral motor tasks?
    • Repetition of mouth opening
    • Puckering lips
    • Smiling
    • Tongue protrusion
    • Biting the lower lip
    • Blowing
    • Humming
  38. The vast majority of legitimate research show ____ in speech sound production because of non-speech oral motor exercises.
    no changes
  39. An assumption of oral motor theory is that the same structures used for speech perform _____.
    the same way for non-speech gestures
  40. An assumption of oral motor theory is that oral motor exercises _________.
    strengthen the articulators
  41. An assumption of oral motor theory is that warming up the speech musculature at the beginning of therapy will facilitate speech goals in a session, and lay the foundations _______.
    for speech by getting the muscles used to the movements they must perform
  42. There is a lot of evidence against ____ theory.
    oral motor
  43. Oral motor exercises establish a starting point for a group of _____.
    related speech sounds
  44. Oral motor exercises are key to modify ____ gestures to be more ____, and to incorporate their production into speech _____.
    • non-speech
    • speech-like
    • as soon as possible
  45. Three things to think about with phonology:
    • the way sound is stored in the child's mind
    • the way the sound is actually said by the child
    • the rules or processes that map between the two above
  46. A child that has been unable to pick out ________ might have difficulty with phonological development.
    the relevant information from the speech around them
  47. Phonological issues can contribute to issues with reading. This is not true of _____.
    articulation
  48. A child that needs help focusing on the ________ might have difficulty with phonological development.
    features and/or phonemes that are missing from their system
  49. A phonological disorder is a ___ disorder not a ____ disorder.
    • language
    • production
  50. Minimal pairs is a form of _____.
    phonological therapy
  51. Present a pair of words to the child that addresses _____ and enables to child to first discriminate, and later ___, the differences between _____.
    • the incorrect sound pattern
    • produce
    • sound patterns
  52. In phonological therapy, most phonemic approaches use ____.
    minimal word pairs
  53. In phonological therapy, you create a contrast to show the child ____.
    how differences in sound create differences in meaning.
  54. All children make ____ pronunciation "errors" when they are learning to talk like adults.
    predictable
  55. Phonological processes are typically gone by the time a child is ___, though there is ____.
    • 5
    • individual variation
  56. Idiosyncratic processes are displayed in children with ____ and are not usually found in the speech of typically developing children.
    disordered phonology
  57. ______ are considered to be red flags because they are indicators of abnormal phonological development.
    Idiosyncratic processes
  58. ___ includes the lingustic elements that connect sounds and symbols with meaning.
    Form
  59. Form includes ___, ___ and ____.
    • phonology
    • morphology
    • syntax
  60. ____ is the meaning of language.
    Content
  61. Content includes ___.
    semantics
  62. ___ is the area of language that deals with rules that govern use of language in social contexts.
    Use
  63. Use includes ___.
    pragmatics
  64. Piaget's 4 stages:
    From birth to age 2 is called the ____ and is Stage ___.
    • Sensorimotor stage
    • 1
  65. Piaget's 4 stages:
    From age 2 to 7 is called the ____ and is Stage ___.
    • Preoperational stage
    • 2
  66. Piaget's 4 stages:
    From age 7 to 11 is called the ___ and is Stage ___.
    • Concrete Operational Stage
    • 3
  67. Piaget's 4 stages:
    From 12 years and up is called the ____ and is Stage ___.
    • Formal operational stage
    • 4
  68. A language disorder is the impairment or deviant development of ____ and/or use of a ______.
    • comprehension
    • spoken, written, and/or other symbol system
  69. A language disorder may involve:
    1.
    2.
    3.
    • the form of language (phonologic, morphologic, syntax)
    • the content of language (semantics)
    • the function of language in communication (pragmatics)
  70. What are two underlying contributors to language development?
    • cognition
    • environment
  71. What are some limitations to Piaget's theory?
    • The stage model depicts children's thinking as being more consistent than it is
    • Infants and young children are more cognitively competent than Piaget recognized
  72. Piaget's theory understates _____.
    the contribution of the social world to cognitive development
  73. Piaget's tasks are _____ biased. Schooling and literacy affect ____.
    • culturally
    • rates of development
  74. Ate age 2, ____ demonstrate normal language comprehension but use less than 50 words and no word combinations.
    late bloomers
  75. Between 50% and 75% of late bloomers outgrow the delay by age ___.
    3
  76. _____ of late bloomers demonstrate an expressive language delay that persists.
    25% to 50%
  77. What are some risk factors for the development of language disorders? (6)
    • Pre-maturity with low birth weight
    • maternal drug and alcohol abuse
    • presence of genetic syndrome
    • prolonged hospitalization due to physical disabilities and frequent illness
    • neglect and abuse
  78. What are some informal/alternative types of language assessment? (4)
    • Language sample analysis
    • Curriculum-based assessments
    • Portfolio assessment
    • Dynamic assessment
  79. What are some formal/standardized types of language assessment? (3)
    • Traditional standardized tests
    • Utilize norms for comparison to peers
    • Strict administration guidelines
  80. People who clutter can't decide _____.
    exactly what it is that they're trying to say
  81. People who clutter might have the ___ in mind, but the actual ___ are not clearly formed in their minds.
    • content
    • words
  82. _____ is a central factor in cluttering.
    Rate
  83. ____ has excessive levels of "normal" speech disfluencies.
    Cluttering
  84. People who ____ have little or no apparent physical struggle in speaking.
    clutter
  85. People who ____ exhibit atypical articulation patterns.
    clutter
  86. People who ____ have reduced awareness.
    clutter
  87. Differences between cluttering and stuttering
    • types of disfluencies
    • organized (stutter) vs disorganized (clutter) output
    • secondary behaviors (stutter)
  88. At least _____ children in the US stutter.
    3 million
  89. _____ people will say they have stuttered in their life.
    1 in 5
  90. Stuttering can last _____.
    throughout life
  91. The probability of stuttering onset ______.
    decreases with age
  92. There is an increased potential for misdiagnosis of stuttering in Bilingual Spanish English children because they produce _____ than monolinguals.
    a significantly higher number of mazes
  93. There is an increased potential for misdiagnosis of stuttering in Bilingual Spanish English children because there is a _____.
    critical overlap between SLDs (stuttering-like disfluencies) and mazes. -Sound/syllable repetitions
  94. There is no evidence to support the assumption that bilinguals are at a higher risk for _____. But instead there is a higher risk for ____.
    • stuttering
    • misdiagnosis
  95. When is stuttering most likely to occur?
    Bidirectional communication: When two people are talking to each other or one person is talking to a group of people. Not likely when a person is alone talking to themselves.
  96. Stuttering is __________ in nature.
    extremely variable
  97. People don't stutter when they ______.
    sing, whisper, yell
  98. What are some factors that can indicate a higher rate of stuttering recovery?
    • Onset before age 3
    • Female
    • Measurable decrease in sound/syllable and word repetitions, and sound prolongations, overtime, observed relatively soon postonset
    • no family history of stuttering or a family history of recovery
    • no coexisting phonological problems
  99. Probability of recovery from stuttering:
    • highest from 6-36 months postonset
    • majority of children recover within 12-24 months postonset
  100. What is the speech easy device?
    It is a completely in the canal device that repeats your speech with the effect of slowing speech rate.
  101. What is the effect of the speech easy device?
    It initially helps to slow speech rate, but eventually the novelty of it can wear off and it does not work.
  102. Why does stuttering increase at the initiation of therapy?
    • Increased awareness of moments
    • - no real increase in stuttering
    • - OR - leads to increase (temporary) in stuttering
  103. Why is there increased activation in the right hemisphere of stutterers?
    • Two arguments for this - the left is not enough for language development
    • Emtional reaction to stuttering
  104. Do people who stutter only stutter on specific sounds?
    Research finds that the stronger a person's expectation to stutter on a certain word actually increases the likelihood of stuttering on that word.
  105. What is the best approach for helping covert stutterers?
    Having them use words they know they stutter on. Having them bring those words to the surface. Having them mimic stuttering.
  106. Why do stutterers have such a difficult time saying their name?
    It's unchangeable
Author
amykath
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137209
Card Set
CSD 367K Test 2
Description
SLP
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