Juliet's Slp Diagnostics Cards

Front 1

List 3 alternative assessment aproaches.

Back 1

1. Ethnographic interviews
2. Inventories and work sample analysis
3. Dynamic assessment

Front 2

True or False. When gathering information from parents for case history, use professional terms and jargons so you appear to be very knowledgeable.

Back 2

False

Front 3

True or False. You need to obtain consent from the parents of a client before sharing information about the client's therapy sessions with the client's psychologist.

Back 3

True

Front 4

True or False. The case history does not need to contain the interviewer's name and job title.

Back 4

False

Front 5

True or False. A speech-language pathologist can guarantee a client's recovery or skill acquisition.

Back 5

False

Front 6

What are diadochokinetic tasks?

Back 6

Diadochokinetic tasks are tasks that involve repetitive movements or speech sounds to evaluate the functional adequacy of the oral mechanism.

Front 7

List four goals of language diagnosis.

Back 7

1. Determine nature of complaint
2. Determine existence of language disorder
3. Determine concomitant factors
4. Prediction of the course of the language problem.

Front 8

True or False. Informal observations are important aspects of language disorders diagnosis in children.

Back 8

True

Front 9

List some concomitant factors to language disorders in children.

Back 9

1. Hearing status
2. Home environment
3. Cognition

Front 10

Define the following terms:
1. Impairment
2. Disability

Back 10

1. Impairment is the loss or abnormality of a function or structure.
2. Disability is the reduction in function of a structure.

Front 11

What is a prognostic statement?

Back 11

A prognostic statement is a cautious prediction about the outcomes with and without interventions.

Front 12

List some variables the client demonstrates that affects prognostic conclusions.

Back 12

1. Client motivation
2. Client's stimulability or response to trial intervention
3. Client's medical, development and therapeutic histories

Front 13

True or False. The most important tool in voice evaluation is your brain.

Back 13

True

Front 14

True or False. The interpretation of most clinical data lies with the combination of measures, rather than a single measure.

Back 14

True

Front 15

True or False. The Porch Index of Communicative Ability tests all aspects of language modalities in patients with aphasia

Back 15

False

Front 16

True or False. Behaviors that characterize apraxia of speech often coincide with aphasia

Back 16

True

Front 17

True or False. Two primary motor speech disorders are apraxia of speech and dysarthria.

Back 17

True

Front 18

List three assessment tools used in assessing motor speech disorders.

Back 18

1. Perceptual
2. Acoustic
3. Physiologic

Front 19

List 3 imaging techniques of the velopharyngeal system.

Back 19

1. Ultrasonography
2. Oral Endoscopy
3. Nasopharyngoscopy

Front 20

Why is swallowing evaluation important for patients with dysarthria.

Back 20

Some patients with dysarthria have weakness in the swallowing structures and many of them are silent aspirators.