ACRONYMS
ASHA
What is the American Speech Language Hearing Association?
Information gathered on the ability level of clients at the beginning of the semester
What is baseline data?
Expressive and receptive; developmental or acquired
These are developed to demonstrate what a client should accomplish in a year
What are Functional Communication Outcomes (FCOs)?
Disorder affecting production and/or comprehension of language after a brain injury
NSSLHA
What is the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association?
Ability to transfer skills mastered in therapy sessions to a variety of settings in the client’s everyday environment
What is generalization?
Attention, memory, sequencing, problem-solving, executive functioning
What are cognitive aspects of communication (cognition)?
This is completed prior to each session and contains goals, procedures, and materials
What is the lesson plan?
Errors in production of individual speech sounds
What are articulation disorders?
CAA
What is the Council on Academic Accreditation?
DAILY DOUBLE
The area between what clients can do independently and what they can’t do even with help
Dysphagia and feeding
What is swallowing?
This is completed during each session to track client outcomes
What is data collection?
Predictable, rule-based errors of multiple speech sounds
What are phonological disorders?
CFCC
What is the Council for Clinical Certification?
In-the-moment modifications of goals/procedures during sessions
What is branching?
DAILY DOUBLE
Stuttering and cluttering
This is completed after each session to document client progress and growth
What is the SOAP note?
This results from different or inappropriate vocal quality, pitch, and/or loudness
What is a voice disorder?
KASFA
What is Knowledge and Skills Formative Acquisition?
“Good job putting your tongue behind your teeth for that /s/” is an example of this
What is specific feedback?
Aural Rehabilitation
What is hearing?
This is completed weekly to document clinician strengths and opportunities for growth
What is the Self Assessment?
Motor speech disorder impacting planning and coordination of speech sounds
What is apraxia of speech?