Before
Why do we conduct hearing screenings before speech sound test?
So you do not waste time doing speech sound testing when part of the difficulty may lie in hearing acuity
What type of encouragement should the SLP give during testing? Give an example.
“general encouragement” “I like the way you are working”
After you have completed your speech evaluation, what's next?
Develop a treatment plan.
Articulation tests score for _____ and phonological tests score for ____.
Articulation tests score for _____ [errors} and phonological tests score for ____phonological processes.
Why is whole word transcription recommended for a phonological test?
It is difficult to see the relationship between the target phoneme and phone in terms of what phonological process it is.
Why should target stimulable speech sounds in treatment?
Perspective 1: Work on stimulable speech sounds
“It has been suggested that sounds that are more stimulable would be easier to work on in therapy; therefore, highly stimulable sounds should be targeted first. . .” (p. 152). Such sounds may be “easier to work on” because they may be more motivating to the client: The fact that the child can imitate the model means that the norm production of the sound is within articulatory reach. Working on stimulable targets typically is also rewarding from a clinician’s standpoint because they give us opportunities to reinforce our clients’ productions. Also, there is some evidence that “high stimulability was correlated with more rapid therapeutic success” (p. 152). Essentially, for the reasons listed above and more, working on stimulable targets fits the assertion that therapy targets and activities should progress in a simple-to-complex sequence.
What are we collecting when we “gather initial impressions”?
Forming an impression of what types of errors we are hearing…i.e., substitutions, omissions..etc.
Take notice if the deviations are age appropriate.
Level of intelligibility in connected speech
Forming an impression of what types of errors we are hearing…i.e., substitutions, omissions..etc.
Take notice if the deviations are age appropriate.
Based on the information presented in this course, which of the following presents the WORST sequence of activities in evaluating clients with SSDs who also have histories of recurrent otitis media:
Screen hearing, elicit verbal samples, administer speech sound tests
Elicit verbal samples, administer speech sound tests, screen hearing
Administer speech sound tests, elicit verbal samples, screen hearing
Screen hearing, administer speech sound tests, elicit speech samples,
Elicit verbal samples, administer speech sound tests, screen hearing
Why should we target less-stimulable speech sounds in treatment?
perspective 2: Work on less-stimulable speech sounds
“High stimulability might mean that children were on the verge of acquiring the sound and would not even need therapeutic intervention.” (p. 152). In other words, highly stimulable sounds are emergent sounds. If the sound is emergent, then it might suggest the potential that children can achieve norm production on these sounds on their own; therefore, treatment targets should include those sounds where the child “truly” needs help in figuring out how to say them. There is research that suggests that children who work on nonstimulable sounds make greater gains in generalizing accurate productions to untreated sounds that do NOT share the production features of stimulable sounds (see Geirut, 2001). In other words, data suggest that a child who is not stimulable for /s/ [fricative] productions may be achieve norm production to /tʃ/—an affricate, also an untreated target—sooner than children who are stimulable for /s/ productions.