Clinical Phonology
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Clinical Phonology explores the application of phonological theory to the assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders in diverse populations. The course covers key concepts in phonological development, analysis of phonological processes, and methods for evaluating and addressing articulatory and phonological difficulties in both children and adults. Students will gain practical skills in diagnosing phonological disorders, designing intervention strategies, and interpreting clinical data, with an emphasis on evidence-based practice and cultural sensitivity in clinical settings.
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Articulation and Phonological Disorders Speech Sound Disorders in Children 7th Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) What is the difference between fricatives and affricates?
Answer: Fricatives have continuous airflow whereas affricates start out like fricatives but then have a constriction of the vocal tract like a stop.
Q2) Describe a situation in which vowels would not be nasal and a situation in which a vowel would not be voiced.
Answer: Nasal: before/ after a nasal consonant; Voiced: when whispering.
Q3) Diphthongs are a combination of:
A) Two vowels
B) A vowel and a consonant
C) Two consonants
D) Three vowels
Answer: A
Q4) The smallest units of language that have meaning are:
A) Words
B) Phonemes
C) Morphemes
D) Graphemes
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Normal Aspects of Articulation
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Q1) Phonological awareness is a strong predictor for later reading success.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Developmental norms differ greatly in their recommendations for how sounds are developed. As a new SLP, how will you determine when a child is developing appropriately in the face of so many differing norms?
Answer: Students should suggest the use of evidence based practice taking into consideration what the wealth of research says, what the specific clients needs are, and what the clinicians experience is. Additionally, students should mention the importance of noting where the data come from and considering the differences in diary studies compared to longitudinal studies and all possibilities in between.
Q3) Choose two of the models of speech acquisition to compare and contrast. Be sure to include specific information regarding how each model contributes uniquely to the field of speech language pathology.
Answer: Answers will widely vary this will also depend on which specific models are chosen for class discussion. Pages 60-70 describe the common models
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Chapter 3: Speech Sound Acquisition
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Q1) Newborn hearing screenings are universal in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) An enlarged tongue is called:
A) Microglossia
B) Glossectomy
C) Macrolinga
D) Macroglossia
Answer: D
Q3) Name two professionals with whom SLPs will need to collaborate when working with individuals with cranio-facial anomalies.
Answer: Physician, ENT, dentist, orthodontist, surgeon, etc.
Q4) Describe the three main speech characteristics of childhood apraxia of speech CAS).
Answer: Currently, CAS is characterized by three main speech differences: inconsistent error on vowels and consonants, difficulty with prosody in phrases and words, lengthened and disrupted transitions between syllables and sounds.
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Chapter 4: Classification and Comorbidity in Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) Discuss the link between language and phonology. What areas of language are most closely related to phonological disorders?
Q2) Intelligence plays an important role in articulation skills in what population:
A) Individuals with severe cognitive impairments
B) All populations
C) Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing
D) Individuals with autism
Q3) A combination of which two approaches is suggested for treatment of tongue thrust:
A) Phonological awareness and minimal pairs
B) Cycles and articulation approach
C) Articulation treatment and oral myofunctional therapy
D) Minimal pairs and oral myofunctional
Q4) Discuss the top-down versus bottom-up theories of speech production.
Q5) The most common speech sound error seen in individuals with tongue thrust is:
A) /w/ for /r/ substitutions
B) Fronting
C) Backing
D) Sibilant distortions
Q6) Name three roles of speech perception in speech production abilities.
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Chapter 5: Factors Related to Speech Sound Disorders
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Q1) It is okay for a phonological assessment to be difficult to score and hard to administer, as long as the pictures are attractive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a parent reports that a child is able to hear normally, a hearing screening is not necessary.
A)True B)False
Q3) Name 3 of the 4 ways a connected speech sample can be collected.
Q4) When assessing the phonological systems of young infants and toddlers, clinicians should:
A) Not assess children this young
B) Conduct independent phonological analyses
C) Conduct dependent phonological analyses
D) Rely solely on parent report
Q5) Formal speech screenings are typically developed by a clinician with no specific criteria for passing or failing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Phonological Assessment Procedures
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Q1) If a child is able to correctly produce a sound in certain contexts, but not others, this indicates that the sound is:
A) Incorrect
B) Stable
C) Consistent
D) Inconsistent
Q2) Describe the phonological pattern "coalescence" and give an example.
Q3) A child produces the word "ski" like "key". This is an example of:
A) Final consonant deletion
B) Cluster reduction
C) Initial consonant deletion
D) Metathesis
Q4) Teachers and peers have been shown to show different expectations/ feelings towards individuals with speech sound disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name the two reasons phonological patterns are useful.
Q6) Discuss the two ways in which "developmentally appropriateness" can be determined.
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Chapter 7: Determining the Need for Intervention and Target Selection
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Q1) The horizontal approach is a goal attack strategy in which multiple phonemes are targeted within each treatment session.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the common intervention styles. How would you decide which to use?
Q3) Across word position generalization happens when a child can produce the /f/ sound in the initial position and then, without direct treatment, can produce the /f/ sound in the final position.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are clearly delineated dismissal criteria for SLPs to use with all clients who have speech sound errors.
A)True B)False
Q5) Generalization probes should include all words targeted in treatment.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 8: Remediation Procedures
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Q1) Speech production is:
A) All motor based
B) All language based
C) Mostly motor based
D) Both motor and language based
Q2) Nonspeech oral motor activities should never be used in treatment of speech sound disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the three steps in the core vocabulary approach.
Q4) Articulation and phonology are two sides to the same coin.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Tactile feedback may include placing an oral appliance in the client's mouth to provide a landmark for correct articulation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the three phases of a common treatment continuum?
Q7) What are three examples of visual feedback?
Q8) Describe the three types of principles of motor learning.
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Chapter 9: Motor-Based Treatment Approaches
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Q1) When a child's error patterns include errors of place, voice, and manners, it is recommended that therapists:
A) Wait to provide therapy until the child achieves more correct productions independently
B) Start with voicing errors
C) Work on the earlier developing sounds first
D) Utilize exemplars from each category n treatment
Q2) The most common linguistic-based treatment approach is minimal pairs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The cycles approach focuses on one speech sound until mastery is achieved.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are three of the four recommended primary targets in the cycles approach?
Q5) A whole-language approach to treatment focuses on:
A) Including phonology and the other 4 areas of language in therapy
B) Improving morphosyntax skills
C) Teaching decoding strategies
D) Sight-word vocabulary
Q6) Describe a typical treatment session that uses the cycles approach.
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Chapter 10: Linguistically-Based Treatment Approaches
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Q1) The likelihood of misdiagnosis increases if SLPs are not aware of the dialect a child is speaking.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Spanish and English have the name number of vowels and consonants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Everyone speaks a dialect of some language.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some factors that contribute to dialect?
Q5) Children who speak African American English and have SSD produce errors that are significantly different than children who speak GAE and have SSD.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Though many factors contribute to dialect, geographical location is the most prominent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Phonological Awareness: Description,
Assessment, and Intervention
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Q1) Dynamic assessments allow for multiple levels of:
A) Treatment
B) Prompting
C) Success
D) Awareness
Q2) Phonological awareness should be targeted in preschool only.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jenny is a fourth grade girl who has been in speech therapy for a speech sound disorder since Kindergarten. Her teacher tells you that Jenny struggles with spelling and basic decoding. These struggles are really holding Jenny back from progressing in the fourth grade curriculum, since most of it requires reading to learn. You begin to incorporate some phonological awareness activities into your intervention sessions. You notice that Jenny struggles with all levels of phonological awareness abilities including rhyming). Is it appropriate to work on phonological awareness with this student? Why or why not?
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Q4) Besides phonological awareness skills, what other skills have shown to have a strong relationship with later reading success name two)?
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