CSD 332 Quiz 1 Information – study guide and quiz preparation material
Diagnostic/ Assessment/ Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔- The efforts to understand the client's
communication problem
- All mean the same thing and are interchangeable
Therapy/ Intervention/ Treatment - correct answer ✔✔- The activities that we do to help
modify, minimize, or resolve the communication problem
- All mean the same thing and are interchangeable
"Clinical Professions" - correct answer ✔✔- SLPs
- Other clinical professions: Physician , PT, OT, Social Workers, Psychologists, Nurses, etc.
Problem-Solving - correct answer ✔✔- problem solving is a major part of being a SLP and or
Audiologist
Steps to Clinical Problem Solving - correct answer ✔✔1. Establish the clinical question
- What do I want to answer by the time the evaluation is done?
Examples: Do they have an articulation disorder?
Do they have a fluency disorder?
Do they need an AAC device?
2. Determine the information needed to answer the question
- What do I want to know?
Examples: How old are they?
What kind of job do they have?
Do they go to school, were they in school?
,3. Determine how to obtain this information
- How will I get the information I need?
Examples: Am I going to do an interview?
Am I going to administer a test?
Am I going to simply observe?
4. Gather the information
5. Interpret the information using clinical standards
- Score the test and look over the information gathered
- What does the information I gathered mean
6. Answer the question
- Can do more to get more information if needed
- Did you gather enough information to answer the question
- Do you have to run more tests or assessments
Overview... Diagnosis is... - correct answer ✔✔The clinical process concerned with
understanding the client's communication disorder
Reason for Referral - correct answer ✔✔- We need to determine why this person has come to
you
- The diagnostic process has been characterized as... a decision-making process aims at
developing and understanding the communication impairment
Methods for Obtaining Information - correct answer ✔✔1. Interview
, - The clinician asking the client, family members, etc. A series of questions (concerns, the reason
for coming, if better or worse in some situations, family history, etc.)
- Write down responses
- 1st meeting
2. Questionnaires
- Written
- Getting more information, patient concerns and history of problems
- Anyone can fill out (family, teacher, patient)
- Can be filled out prior to coming
- Vary in questions asked
3. Standardized Tests
- Way to gather info
- Common
- Compare patient to normed data- or to client themselves (to see potential improvements)
- Can measure in 1 or more areas
- Need to ensure the test is on topic/ question want answered= measurement procedure that is
uniform across all examiners
- 1. Written directions that clearly outline what the clinician says and odes (scripts)
- 2. Any stimuli used should be provided (pictures, objects, etc.)
-3. Explicit rules for scoring (correct and incorrect answers)
4. Observation
- In a natural environment setting (class, in work environment)
- Common with really little kids
Diagnostic/ Assessment/ Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔- The efforts to understand the client's
communication problem
- All mean the same thing and are interchangeable
Therapy/ Intervention/ Treatment - correct answer ✔✔- The activities that we do to help
modify, minimize, or resolve the communication problem
- All mean the same thing and are interchangeable
"Clinical Professions" - correct answer ✔✔- SLPs
- Other clinical professions: Physician , PT, OT, Social Workers, Psychologists, Nurses, etc.
Problem-Solving - correct answer ✔✔- problem solving is a major part of being a SLP and or
Audiologist
Steps to Clinical Problem Solving - correct answer ✔✔1. Establish the clinical question
- What do I want to answer by the time the evaluation is done?
Examples: Do they have an articulation disorder?
Do they have a fluency disorder?
Do they need an AAC device?
2. Determine the information needed to answer the question
- What do I want to know?
Examples: How old are they?
What kind of job do they have?
Do they go to school, were they in school?
,3. Determine how to obtain this information
- How will I get the information I need?
Examples: Am I going to do an interview?
Am I going to administer a test?
Am I going to simply observe?
4. Gather the information
5. Interpret the information using clinical standards
- Score the test and look over the information gathered
- What does the information I gathered mean
6. Answer the question
- Can do more to get more information if needed
- Did you gather enough information to answer the question
- Do you have to run more tests or assessments
Overview... Diagnosis is... - correct answer ✔✔The clinical process concerned with
understanding the client's communication disorder
Reason for Referral - correct answer ✔✔- We need to determine why this person has come to
you
- The diagnostic process has been characterized as... a decision-making process aims at
developing and understanding the communication impairment
Methods for Obtaining Information - correct answer ✔✔1. Interview
, - The clinician asking the client, family members, etc. A series of questions (concerns, the reason
for coming, if better or worse in some situations, family history, etc.)
- Write down responses
- 1st meeting
2. Questionnaires
- Written
- Getting more information, patient concerns and history of problems
- Anyone can fill out (family, teacher, patient)
- Can be filled out prior to coming
- Vary in questions asked
3. Standardized Tests
- Way to gather info
- Common
- Compare patient to normed data- or to client themselves (to see potential improvements)
- Can measure in 1 or more areas
- Need to ensure the test is on topic/ question want answered= measurement procedure that is
uniform across all examiners
- 1. Written directions that clearly outline what the clinician says and odes (scripts)
- 2. Any stimuli used should be provided (pictures, objects, etc.)
-3. Explicit rules for scoring (correct and incorrect answers)
4. Observation
- In a natural environment setting (class, in work environment)
- Common with really little kids
