Clinical Significance and Treatment Research
CMD History
Scientific Reasoning
Research and Design
Measures
100

A person who stutters displays improved fluency when ordering at a restaurant following encouraging easy onsets. 

What is clinical significance?

100

Year and number of women the American Academy of Speech Correction was formed.

What is 1925 and 15?

100

A Philosophy and set of methods. 

What is Science ?

100

Assignment of number to represent properties 

What is measurement?

100

Number of correct/incorrect productions 

What is frequency?

200

Documenting positive changes in client behaviors during routine treatment demostrates___?

What is improvement?

200

T/F: In CMD translational research is often concerned with acquired neurologic disorders

True

200

Reasoning that goes from the particular to the general (experiments lead to theory) 

What is inductive reasoning?

200

Data describes recorded measurements of empirical events while evidence are recorded data that support hypothesis or theory. 

What distinguishes data from evidence. 

200

Length of time a production is sustained.

What is duration?

300

Controlling extraneous variables to show treatment caused positive changes demonstrates treatment____.

What is effectiveness?

300

Speech pathologists' assessment and treatment dysfunction in the ____ preceded the increase in dysphagia research in the ____.

What is the 1980 and the 2000s?

300

Reasoning that goes from the general to the specific (theory leads to experiments) 

What is deductive reasoning?

300

Multiple baselines, reversal, reinstatement, rapid alternations are ____.

What are control mechanisms for single-subject treatment research?

300

Time between stimulus and response.

What is latency?

400

Operationalize the dependent variable in treatment research corresponds to this aspect of clinical practice.

What is define a treatment target/goal?

400
1.Specific aspects of events that change

2.Phenomena broken down into smaller components that can be observed, measures, and manipulated.

3.Independent or dependent depending on the framing of cause or effect. 

What are variables?
400

T/F- Determinism and empiricism refer to the same concept. 

What is False?

400

Convenience and snowball samples 

vs 

cluster, stratified random and systematic sampling. 

what is non-probability sampling 

vs

probability sampling?

400

Expansion of skills outside clinic/lab

vs

Skills sustained after treatment removal

What is generalization 

vs

maintenance? 

500

Introduce the independent variable systematically corresponds to this aspect of clinical practice. 

What is deliver communication intervention according to a planned schedule?

500

T/F - The historical pattern in CMD has been to first develop a scientific basis of treatment, then expand clinical scope of practice.

What is False?

500

Science of the frequency and distribution of disease, injury and health related behaviors and events is known as 

What is epidemiological research?

500

1.Ethical issues when choosing research design. 

2.Likelihood of obtaining clinically significant findings.

3.Single-subject research provides logical generality for individual clients.

What is valid consideration to evaluate treatment effectiveness?

500

1. events are given names or numbers without mathematical properties

2. events are categorized relatively, and rank ordered

3. The difference between units is constant, but there is no zero 

4. all numbers have mathematical properties and there is a zero

1.Nominal

2.Ordinal

3. Interval

4.Ratio 

 

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