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What are six organic and neurogenic speech disorders?
A CC DD H
apraxia of speech in adults
cerebral palsy
cleft lip and palate
developmental (childhood) apraxia of speech
dysarthria
hearing impairment
What is apraxia of speech?
a motor programming disorder resulting from neurological damage

muscles normal but have difficulty with volitional movement
How do you test for oral apraxia?
have patient try to imitate oral movement
What are the three types of apraxia?
oral (volitional mouth movement)
limb
verbal
What is a symptom of limb apraxia?
wide-based gait
What are characteristics of apraxia? (8)
AAAA HMRV
anticipatory substitutions

articulation errors (mainly distortions, then substitutions, omissions)

automatic speech less affected than volitional speech

aware of the speech problem

highly variable speech errors

metathetic errors

regressive substitutions

volitional sequencing of movements for speech are notably affected
What is the difference between automatic speech and volitional speech?
automatic speech consists of words not directly under the control of person's conscious mind, and are spoken without thought (days of the week, counting)

volitional speech requires active thought
What is anticipatory substitution?
a phoneme that occurs later in a word affects one that occurs earlier

pospital for hospital
What is regressive substitution?
a phoneme that occurs earlier in a word affects one that occurs later

tatle for table
What are metathetic errors?
switched position of phonemes in words

tephelone for telephone
Developmental Apraxia of Speech (DAS) is also called
(pg 353)
developmental verbal apraxia (DVA)

childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) (insurance company preferred term)

suspected developmental apraxia of speech
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is
(page 354)
a childhood articulation disorder of unknown etiology

unlike apraxic adults there is no brain damage but the speech characteristics are very similar

primarily a descriptive term
Speech characteristics of CAS/DAS
(pg 355)
IMS UU
Inconsistent or variable sound errors in the same word over repeated trials

Moderate to severe intelligibility

Slow DDKs

Unusual artic errors (additions, prolongations, nonphonemic sounds)

Usually gap in receptive/expressive language skills
What is the difference between apraxia and dysarthria?
apraxia is a motor programming dysfunction

dysarthria is a motor movement dysfunction
What is dysarthria?
(pg 361)
a neuromotor speech disorder affecting one, various, or all parameters of speech production: respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and prosody
What is prosody?
the stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns of speech
What are the seven types of dysarthria?
(pg 364)
AF HH MSU
1. Ataxic
2. Flaccid
3. Hyperkinetic
4. Hypokinetic
5. Mixed
6. Spastic
7. Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron
What is another name for flaccid dysarthria?
bulbar palsy
What type of dysarthria will a person with Parkinson's disease exhibit?
hypokinetic
(from basal ganglia damage)
What type of dysarthria will a person with Huntington's disease exhibit?
hyperkinetic
(from basal ganglia damage)
What dysarthrias are associated with:

Parkinson's

Huntington's

ALS (Lou Gehrig's)

multiple sclerosis

Wilson's
hypokinetic

hyperkinetic

flaccid/spastic

spastic/ataxic

ataxic/spastic/hyperkinetic
What type of dysarthria will a person with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) exhibit?
flaccid/spastic (mixed) dysarthria
(most common of this type)
What type of dysarthria will a person with multiple sclerosis exhibit?
spastic/ataxic (mixed) dysarthria
What type of dysarthria will a person with Wilson's disease exhibit?
ataxic/spastic/hyperkinetic (mixed) dysarthria
What causes flaccid dysarthria?
lower motor neuron damage
What causes spastic dysarthria?
bilateral upper motor neuron damage
What causes ataxic dysarthria?
cerebellar damage
What causes hypo/hyperkinetic dysarthria?
basal ganglia damage
What causes unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria?
unilateral lesion to the upper motor neurons involved in speech

similar to spastic but only unilateral damage
When is a better time to assess for dysarthria?
in the morning

patients are easily fatigued so as testing continues their performance will decrease
What is cerebral palsy?
(pg 373)
nonprogressive neuromotor disorder resulting from brain damage before, during, and after birth

2:1000 live births
What are some prenatal etiologies of cerebral palsy?
drugs
radiation
fetal anoxia
What are some perinatal etiologies of cerebral palsy?
use of forceps during delivery
What are some postnatal etiologies of cerebral palsy?
premature birth
asphyxia
head trauma
What are the categories of limb paralysis for cerebral palsy? (5)
(pg 373)
Quadriplegia (trunk and all extremities)
Diplegia (paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body)
Paraplegia (lower trunk and legs)
Hemiplegia (one side of the body)
Monoplegia (single extremity)
What are the neuromuscular categories of cerebral palsy? (5)
(pg 374)
Spastic (50%)
Mixed (30%)
Athetoid (10%)
Ataxic (5-10%)
Rigid (1%)
What is ATNR?
asymmetrical tonic neck reflex

associated with athetoid CP
What is athetoid CP?
slow, writhing involuntary movements
What is ataxic CP?
balance problems but normal reflexes and muscle tone
What is the most common type of mixed CP?
spastic and athetoid CP
How common is cleft lip and palate?
1:600-750 live births
What is cleft lip and palate usually associated with?
an autosomal dominant syndrome
The causes of cleft lip/palate are
(pg 381)
multifactorial

genetic, teratogens, embryonic development
What are articulation characteristics of cleft lip/palate?
(pg 381)
CDD NVV
Compensatory errors
Decreased intraoral pressure
Difficulty with voiced sounds
Nasal emissions
Velopharyngeal inadequacy
Vowel Distortions
Outside of communication problems, what is another problem a child with cleft lip/palate may have?
feeding issues
During gestation, when do the lips normally fuse?
(pg 380)
5th-6th week of gestation
During gestation, when do the hard and soft palates normally fuse?
(Pg 380)
8th-9th week of gestation
What is the percentage breakdown of cleft lip/palate?
(pg 380)
about 50% with have both
about 25% have cleft lip only
about 25% have cleft palate only
What is the most probable site of brain damage resulting in apraxia?
(pg 351)
Broca's area in the left hemisphere

58% of cases result from stroke
Apraxia is often accompanied by
aphasia
What is oral astereognosis and what is it associated with?
the inability to identify types and locations of objects in the oral cavity
(decreased oral awareness)

CAS/DAS
What are four stages of articulation and phonological development?
Stage 1 - 0-12 months
Stage 2 - 12-24 months
Stage 3 - 2-5 years
Stage 4 - 5 years and beyond
Developmental stages refer to
a child's artic and phonological development which may or may not be the same as chronological age
What is the primary purpose of STAGE 1 therapy?
practice vocal skills that are the basis for later speech development
What is the primary purpose of STAGE 2 therapy?
facilitate acquisition of sounds and syllables in specific words
What is the primary purpose of STAGE 3 therapy?
elimination of errors affecting classes of sounds
What is the primary purpose of STAGE 4 therapy?
eliminate errors affecting late-acquired consonants, consonant clusters, and unstressed syllables in more difficult multi-syllabic words
What are facilitative techniques for Stage 1 therapy?
use motherese
What are facilitative techniques for Stage 2 therapy?
REM
request confirmation or clarification
expansions and parallel talk
modeling
What are facilitative techniques for Stage 3 therapy?
REMS
request confirmation or clarification
expansions and parallel talk
modeling
strategic errors
What are facilitative techniques for Stage 4 therapy?
direct instruction
What is motherese?
baby talk

used in Stage 1 therapy

serves to capture and maintain an infant's attention
What are expansions?
elaborate or add to a child's utterance to make it longer and more grammatically correct
What are strategic errors?
clinician uses a child's own artic/phono errors in conversation with the him/her
What is modeling?
use of another person to exhibit correct speech production
What is parallel talk?
clinician talks about and describes what the child is doing
What is bombardment?
a clinician takes a few minutes to read the practice words they will use, at a slightly elevated sound level, to the child

good for all stages
What are metaphors?
compare something familiar to an aspect of speech

used for stages 3 & 4
What are descriptions?
actually explaining to a child what the articulators need to do to make a sound

used for stages 3 & 4
What are touch cues?
actions that draw attention to the place of articulation

originally designed for oral-motor dysfunctions

good for stages 3 & 4 and the hearing impaired
What is another term for word pairs?
minimal pairs
What is shaping?
Using a sound a child already knows to learn a new sound

example: /s/ to /th/ by opening mouth and moving tongue forward

good for stage 4 and possibly 3
Physical prompts are not the same as
manual guidance or phonetic placement
Phonetic placement is used to teach
the placement of the articulators
What is stimulability?
when a client is able to produce a sound when given maximum cuing

if a client has age appropriate errors, you probably won't do stimulability testing on those
What are ways to select treatment targets?
SPEK
stimulability

phonetic placement & shaping

emerging sounds

key word
What is an emerging sound?
a sound produced correctly 10% - 49% of all occasions
What is a key word?
client successfully produces target sound in a word at least 90% of the time but not in other words

part of the paired stimuli approach
In a traditional approach, how many treatment targets do you use per session?
one
If there are more than one treatment targets in a session, what do you alter?
activity
environment
method
When do you switch from one sound to another?
flexibility criterion

percentage criterion

time criterion
What is the flexibility criterion?
work on a phoneme until a client becomes disinterested
What is the most used criterion for changing treatment targets?
percentage criterion
What is the time criterion?
work on a phoneme for a specific time period then move on

works well for both traditional and phonological therapy
What is the percentage criterion?
work on a sound until a specified percentage level of mastery is achieved

most used criterion
What are the linguistic levels of complexity?
Isolation
Nonsense syllables
Words
Phrases
Sentences
Spontaneous speech
Stimulability testing tells you
what linguistic level to start therapy at
When a child has reached a specified level of mastery at one level then
move them to the next linguistic level
What is meant by phonetic environment?
word position

syllable position (initial, final, intervocalic, stressed, unstressed)
What are administrative decisions to be made for therapy?
types of sessions (group vs individual)

frequency of sessions

length of sessions

length of activities

format of activities
What is the ideal session time for an individuals and groups?
20 minutes for individual

45 minutes for group
Length of therapy activities is dependent on
age of client
attention level
behavior
group or indiv therapy
interest level
Frequency of therapy sessions is dependent on
client availability
insurance authorizations
severity of disorder
time availability
What is a very important format for therapy activities?
DRILL!

more drill-more progress
What is evidence-based practice associated with?
assessing treatment

if client is more intelligible, that is evidence your treatment is effective
What are ways to assess treatment?
pre/post tests

intelligibilty and severity testing

ongoing data tracking
Ongoing data reporting is required by
most schools and clinics

hospitals

insurance companies
What are baselines?
measured rates of behaviors in the absence of treatment
What are baselines used for?
evaluate a child's progress

establish treatment effectiveness

establish clinician accountability
What are the steps in obtaining baselines?
specify targets in measurable terms (write a goal)

prepare stimulus items
(at least 20 per target, catered to child's needs)

prepare a recording sheet

administer the baseline trials
What do you consider when preparing stimulus items for baseline testing?
client's age

cultural background

linguistic abilities
Before you see a client and obtain baselines, you need to develop
daily goals
short term goals
long term goals
What else do you need for therapy sessions besides goals?
criteria for each daily goal
reinforcement plan
activities for each goal
courage and enthusiasm
planning time
therapy materials
Why do we need artic goals?
provides direction

document progress

help parents/clients see progress

insurance companies require them
Based on your professional judgment, how do you select artic goals?
developmental charts
family concerns
intelligibility
normative data
personal gut feeling
stimulability
What are long term goals?
what the client will accomplish when therapy is completed
What four pieces of information are essential in a short term goal?
phoneme

position

level of complexity (isolation, words, etc.)

criteria (percentage)
Short term objectives are also called
(pg 464)
treatment objectives
Short term (treatment) objectives can be defined as
the skills the clinician plans to teach on the way toward achieving the selected long term goals
Short term goals must be
justified by test results

attainable
When writing goal progress
progress on each goal must be reported

include baseline data, therapy approach, and post data
What is the sandwich approach to therapy?
easy tasks
hard tasks
easy tasks
What would be included as additional comments when writing goal progress?
specific material

reinforcers

reinforcement schedules

parent participation

client behaviors affecting therapy
What do you need to prepare before a therapy session?
plan goals, reinforcement, and activities

plan criteria for advancement

use Daily Therapy Plan and Log Sheet
What do you need to do during a session?
follow your plan

be flexible since a child may complete tasks earlier than planned
What do you do after a session?
determine daily performance (%)

fill out Daily Therapy Plan and Log
The traditional approach works well for...
a client with few articulation errors

disorder is development in nature
What are guiding principles of traditional therapy?
treat one or a few sounds at a time

comprised of a series of steps

training is progressive (isolated through conversational)

baseline and stimulability testing tell you where to start
What are the five steps in traditional therapy?
1. Discrimination training (ear training)
2. Stimulability (sound elicitation)
3. Sound stabilization
4. Generalization
5. Maintenance
What is discrimination training?
can a client listen and tell if a phoneme is correct or incorrect?
What are the two types of discrimination training?
clinician - client

client - client (clients listens to himself)
What items can be used to aid in stimulability (sound elicitation)?
mirror, diagrams
See-Scape
Video Articulator
Sound-level Meter
Spectrographs
Straw
FM system
Tongue depressor (/k/, /g/)
What can be used for nasal sound feedback?
See-Scape
What are stimulability approaches?
Auditory stimulation/imitation
Use of context (co-articulation effects)
Moto-kinesthetic
Sound approximation (shaping)
What is an example of coarticulatory effects?
when teaching /r/, do not use a word where the /r/ is followed by a rounded vowel
e.g. road
use "read" instead
What sounds lend themselves to the moto-kinesthetic approach?
velar
What is an example of sound approximation (shaping)?
(also called successive approximation)
using /t/ to produce /s/
or /s/ to produce /sh/
What is sound stabilization?
(pg 401)
achieving correct sound productions through the progressive linguistic levels
(isolation through conversation)
What is generalization (transfer)? (pg 405)
when a client can use clinic-trained skills outside of the clinic in other settings
What are ways to improve generalization?
clear speech time periods

involve parents

speech assignments (give a report, read aloud)

speech buddy
What is maintenance?
check up of client at different intervals to verify correct sound production
What are important criteria for selecting target behaviors?
behaviors that will have an immediate and socially significant impact

sounds produced and reinforced outside of therapy

communication skill expansion

linguistically and culturally appropriate for client
What are possible ways to choose which sounds to work on?
sounds that are:
functional for the child
are stimulable
occur in key words
are visible
occur more frequently
What are possible ways to choose which sounds to work on?
sounds that:
affect intelligibility most
are inconsistently mispronounced
are acquired earlier (developmental)
are part of the child's phonetic inventory
cognates
How many sounds should you target?
training deep approach (traditional):
a small number of sounds are taught intensively

training broad approach (phonological):
simultaneous teaching of multiple targets
What are three traditional therapy approaches?
Deliberate Speech Approach
Minimal Contrast Approach
Paired-Stimuli Approach
Who developed the Paired Stimuli Approach?
Irwin and Weston 1971-1975
What is the method of training in the Paired-Stimuli Approach?
through behavior modification, a target sound is taught with a key word

training occurs at the word level, sentence level, then conversation level
What happens in the Word Level step of the Paired-Stimuli Approach?
four key words are selected with a target sound (2 initial, 2 final) produced correctly at least 90% of the time

ten training words with correct sound production of 2/3 are chosen to alternate with each key word

client progresses when 80% accuracy is achieved
What happens at the sentence level of the Paired-Stimuli approach?
key words are paired with training words but the clinician asks questions about the training words to evoke an answer in the form of a sentence
What happens at the conversation level of the Paired-Stimuli approach?
during conversation with the child the clinician will stop the conversation when the child produces a target sound in four words
or mispronounces a target sound in any word
When is training done in the Paired-Stimuli approach?
child produces target correctly on 15 consecutive opportunities in conversation during two sessions separated by at least one day
What is a training string?
In the Paired-Stimuli approach:

a successful pairing of the key word with each of the ten training words
The minimal contrast approach is also known as
(pg 433)
the minimal pair method
What is the Minimal Contrast approach?
(pg 433)
a method that focuses on contrasting error production with target production through word meaning not phonetic differences
What is the Deliberate Speech approach?
getting the child to slow the rate of speech down to become more aware his errors
What are the steps in Deliberate Speech approach?
describe the concept of rate reduction and accurate production

demonstrate how it's used

discrimination training to recognize slow speaking

production starts at word level
In order for an ESL student to be considered disordered
the child must be disordered in both languages
When dealing with ethnocultural communication, a clinician needs to know
the language and phonological characteristics, properties, and rules of the child's primary language

how the primary language affects second language learning

how to determine if there is a disorder
African American English developed as a
pidgin, which is a simplified type of language that develops when speakers who do not share a common language come into contact
What is a creole?
pidgins become creoles when speakers pass them down through generations as a first language

creoles are more complex than pidgins in that they have associated linguistic rules
What are phonological characteristics of African American English?
/l/ and /r/ reduction or omission

/f/ replaces /θ/ in word final or medial position

/d/ replaces /ð/ in possibly all word positions

/v/ replaces /ð/ in word final positions

differing syllable stress patterns

metathetic productions (aks/ask)

devoicing/deletion of final consonants
How do you select treatment targets for AAE therapy?
first priority:
choose phonemes that have the same pattern of usage in both SAE and AAE

then:
choose phonemes that are not used or misused in AAE
Which Native American tribes have the highest usage of their native languages?
Navajo
Pueblo
Eskimo
What are communication style characteristics of Native American languages?
may avoid eye contact out of respect

mothers (Navajo) may be silent with their infants

believe that listening and observing is more important

language and hearing disorders are five times more prevalent (otitis media)

may be time lag between a question and answer
What are seven major Spanish dialects?
Caribbean
Castilian (Spain)
Central American
Chilean
Highlandian
Mexican & SW U.S.
Southern Paraguayan, Uruguayan, Argentinean
What are the differences between Spanish and English?
Spanish has 5 vowels vs 15 in English

Spanish has 19 consonants vs 24

In Spanish, there are none of the following sounds:

/v/, /ð/, /θ/, /z/, or /ʒ/
What are artic characteristics of Spanish?
/t, d, n/ may be dentalized

final consonants often devoiced

b/v substitutions

ʧ/ʃ substitutions

d/ð

t/θ

schwa (ə) before word initial consonant clusters (/s/ usually)

initial /h/ is silent

front /s/ is more frontal than in English

vowel substitutions since they have less vowels
What are some standardized tests for Spanish speakers?
Spanish Artic Measures

Austin Spanish Artic Test

Assessment of Phonological Processes-Spanish

PLS-3 or 4 Spanish Artic Screener
(preschool language scale)
What are characteristics of Asian/Pacific Islander communication?
final consonant deletion

truncate polysyllabic words or emphasize wrong syllables

devoice voiced cognates

r/l confusion

/r/ omitted

no /θ/ or /ð/

epenthesis

b/v substitutions
What is bidialectal?
able to speak two dialects of the same language (AAE and SAE)
What is bilingual?
able to speak two languages

simultaneous bilingualism is two languages are learned at the same time

successive bilingualism is one language is learned first and then another learned later in life
What is code switching?
switching between two languages during conversation

code mixing: combining two languages during conversation
What is the difference between translation and interpretation?
translation conveys written forms of two languages

interpretation conveys oral forms of two languages
What requires the use of an interpreter during language assessments?
IDEA (1997)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

requires the assessment be done in the child's native language, if it's feasible
What type of interpretation is used most in educational settings?
consecutive interpretation
What types of interpretation is used with ASL?
simultaneous interpretation
What are the types of interpretation and translation?
consecutive interpretation
simultaneous interpretation
prepared translation
sight translation
What are criteria for selecting an interpreter?
interpreter must be culturally and linguistically competent

must be able to communicate verbal and nonverbal messages

needs experience in the educational/clinic setting

trained in interpreting

avoid family members or friends of client
What is a way to check the interpretation skills of your interpreter?
Use translate/back-translate tasks
What skills should an interpreter have?
ability to convey the same meaning in two languages

knowledge of SLP terminology

familiar with dialectal differences

ability to recognize a speech disorder in another language
After selecting an interpreter, what are three steps you need to go through before an assessment?
Briefing-formulate a plan w/ interpreter before session

Interaction-talk to the parents, not the interpreter

Debriefing-review outcomes of the session
What are four challenges of standardized testing for ESL?
words
structures
intonation
discourse
What are examples of word differences in standardized testing?
a word may not have a counterpart in the other language

one word may designate multiple items in another language

words may carry different meanings in other languages

some words cannot be translated
What is phonological (phonemic) awareness?
the knowledge of meaningful sounds (phonemes) in our language and how they blend together to form syllables, words, phrases, and sentences
In what order does phonological awareness develop?
words (age 2 or 3)
syllables (age 4 or 5)
phonemes (age 6 or 7)
How do you informally assess phonological awareness?
alliteration
phoneme isolation (where a phoneme occurs in a word)
phoneme manipulation (deleting, adding, etc. sounds to create new words)
rhyming
sound segmentation
sound and syllable indentification
sound and syllable blending
What is ataxic?
lack of muscular coordination, disturbed balance
What is flaccid?
weakness and reduced muscle tone
What is spastic?
too rigid, increased tone
What is hypo/hyperkinetic?
reduced muscle movement

increased or exaggerated body movement