SHS 402 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

SHS 402 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 dynamic process - Answers clinician continuously assesses the patient's progress toward goals and modifies as necessary program designed with - Answers careful consideration to client's verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities what is critical in making decisions about eligibility for treatment and select appropriate therapy objectives - Answers knowledge of client's level of cognitive function what is the ultimate goal - Answers to teach strategies for facilitating the communication process rather than teaching isolated skills teaching skills - Answers required to achieve specific outcomes in given situations teaching strategies (general) - Answers enable the individual to know when and how to use their skills in new and varied learning contexts when possible teach in a () context to provide opportunities to engage in () communicative contexts - Answers realistic meaningful () to client's deficits and () learning style - Answers specific individual ensure that the client experiences () throughout () stages of therapy - Answers success all therapy goals are () to promote a client's () one step beyond the () level - Answers tailored knowledge current terminated once client achieved () or no longer demonstrates () - Answers goals progress based on () evidence - Answers scientific () to client's cultural and linguistic background - Answers sensitive programming - Answers selection, sequencing and generalization of therapy targets behavior modification - Answers systematic use of specific stimulus-response-consequence procedures key teaching strategies - Answers use of basic training techniques to facilitate learning session design - Answers organization and implementation of therapy sessions, including interpersonal dynamics data collection - Answers systematic measurement of client performance and treatment efficacy programming - Answers selection of therapy targets -establish goals -pretreatment baselines -developmental/normative strategy -client-specific strategy developmental/normative strategy - Answers -based on known normative strategies -targets are taught in the same general order as they emerge developmentally client-specific strategy - Answers -targets based on individual's specific needs -frequency of communication behavior occurs in ADLs -importance of communicative behavior -potential for mastery of the communication skill sequencing of therapy targets: stimulus type - Answers nature of input used to elicit target responses 1. direct physical manipulation 2. concrete symbols (objects, photographs, drawings) 3. abstract symbols (oral and written language) sequencing of therapy targets: task mode - Answers type of clinician support/scaffolding to obtain desired response 1. imitation 2. cue/prompt 3. spontaneous sequencing of therapy targets: response level - Answers degree of difficulty of target response 1. increase length and complexity of desired response 2. decrease latency between stimulus presentation and client response branching - Answers technique used by clinician when client does not perform as predicted -task may be too easy or too difficult -clinician must recognize this situation when it occurs and immediately modify the task rather than persisting with the original plan -achieved by increasing or decreasing the difficulty level by one step according to the therapy sequence hierarchies listed generalization/carryover - Answers client's ability to transfer newly mastered behaviors to everyday environment the 3 factors that influence degree of success of generalization/carryover - Answers 1. variety of stimuli 2. vary physical environment 3. vary the audience termination of therapy guidelines - Answers 1. attainment of communication skills that are commensurate with a client's chronological/developmental age or premorbid status 2. attainment of functional communication skills that permit a client to operate in the daily environment without significant handicap 3. lack of progress formulation of behavioral objectives aka short term goals/objectives - Answers -statement that describes specific target behavior that is observable and measurable what are the three components of goal writing - Answers 1. do (action) statement 2. condition ex: when given (stimulus type, task mode) 3. criterion- something that is measurable and can be counted based on 3 principles of operant conditioning - Answers 1. stimulus (antecedent event)- an event that precedes and elicits a response 2. response- behavior exhibited that results from the stimulus 3. consequence- an event that is contingent on and immediately follows the response behavior modification consequent events - Answers 1. reinforcement- increase the probability that a particular behavior will recur 2. punishment- decrees the frequency of a behavior positive reinforcement - Answers primary -susceptible to satiation -difficult to generalize outside of therapy -difficult to reinforce immediately after each occurrence secondary=percieved as rewarding -social= verbal praise, smiling, eye contact -token- symbols or objects -performance feedback= biofeedback, graphs, rating scales negative reinforcement - Answers an unpleasant tion is removed contingent on the performance of a desired behavior punishment - Answers an event is presented contingent on the performance of an undesired behavior, to decrease the likelihood that the behavior will recur positive behavioral supports - Answers -proactive approach that uses interpersonal and environmental strategies to minimize opportunities of problematic behavior and encourages socially useful behaviors -more preventative and positive in nature -SLPS can prevent problematic behaviors if materials are creative, interesting and sessions are paced well schedules of reinforcement - Answers -continuous -intermittent -fixed ratio -fixed interval -variable ratio -variable interval teaching strategies - Answers -direct modeling -indirect modeling -shaping -prompts -fading -expansion -negative practice -target-specific feedback -homework direct modeling - Answers direct modeling of behavior for client to imitate