Case History/Interview
This type of question encourages the caregiver or client to provide detailed, elaborated responses rather than short answers.
What is an open-ended question?
This type of assessment uses standardized procedures, normative data, and yields scores such as standard scores and percentile ranks.
What is formal assessment?
This early social-communication skill involves sharing attention with another person toward an object or event and is critical for language development.
What is joint attention?
This measure is calculated by dividing the total number of clauses by the total number of T-units and reflects the level of syntactic complexity.
What is subordination index?
This cranial nerve is primarily responsible for tongue movement and is often assessed during an oral mechanism exam.
What is CN XII (hypoglossal)?
This section of a case history gathers information about milestones such as first words, walking, and early communication.
What is the development history section?
This type of assessment includes tools such as language samples, observations, and dynamic assessment, and does not rely on normative comparisons.
What is informal assessment?
This language measure is calculated by averaging the number of morphemes per utterance and is commonly used to estimate a young child’s expressive language level.
What is MLU?
This measure reflects the average length of a speaker’s T-units and is used to evaluate syntactic length in connected speech.
What is MLTU?
This task requires a patient to name as many items as possible within a category, such as animals, in a set amount of time.
What is divergent naming?
This interviewing strategy involves restating or summarizing what the client or caregiver has said to confirm understanding.
What is active listening/reflection?
This psychometric concept refers to how consistently a test measures a skill across time, items, or examiners.
What is reliability?
During this type of observation, the clinician evaluates how a caregiver supports communication through strategies like modeling, expansions, and responsiveness.
What is parent-child observation?
This analysis focuses on the overall organization of a story, including elements like setting, initiating event, and resolution.
What is macrostructure analysis?
Rapid repetition of syllables like “puh-tuh-kuh” is used to assess this aspect of motor speech.
What are diadochokinetics?
Asking too many of these types of questions during an interview can limit responses and reduce the amount of useful information gathered.
What is a close-ended question?
This type of score has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 and is commonly used to compare performance to same-age peers.
What is a standard score?
A child pretending to feed a doll or putting a toy animal to sleep is demonstrating this level of play.
What is symbolic play?
This measure evaluates lexical diversity by comparing the number of different words to the total number of words in a sample.
What is TTR?
This language ability involves understanding spoken or written language, such as following directions or answering yes/no questions.
What is comprehension?
This approach to interviewing starts with broad, general questions and gradually narrows to more specific, detailed questions.
What is a funnel approach?
This informal assessment method allows clinicians to analyze real-life language use by examining features such as MLU, TTR, and grammatical complexity.
What is a speech-language sample?
During a play-based assessment, this measure looks at how often a child initiates or responds to communication attempts within a given time period.
What is frequency of communication?
This type of analysis examines sentence-level features such as syntax, morphology, and semantics.
What is microstructure analysis?
This commonly used reading passage allows clinicians to assess connected speech for articulation, prosody, and fluency.
What is the Grandfather Passage?