CSD 315 Exam 3 Practice Questions and Answers | Communication
Sciences Study Guide
Relational Analysis - correct answer ✔✔Evaluation of speech sounds relative to adult
standards .
Independent Analysis - correct answer ✔✔Inventory of sounds regardless of whether they are
"correct" or "incorrect"
What are the goals of speech sound assessment? - correct answer ✔✔-Determine if
intervention needed
-Determine the focus of tx
-Determine prognosis
-Monitor change
-Identify factors that may be related to the disorder.
What are screening for speech sound disorders used for? - correct answer ✔✔-Determine
whether comprehensive assessment is necessary.
-Not designed to identify diagnosis or to determine treatment directions.
*Strictly used to indicate the need for further testing.
-Designed to be brief -5 minutes or less.
Informal Screening - correct answer ✔✔-Not standardized or norm referenced.
-Tailored to specific population of interest.
-May include: Spontaneous speech/conversation, responding to particular questions, reading
standard passage, repeating standard set of word/sentences.
-Examiner determines if the person "passes"
,Formal Screening Measures - correct answer ✔✔-Standardized/norm referenced.
-Two general types:
>Instruments designed specifically to screen for speech sound development.
>Instruments designed for more general speech and language screening.
What are the speech sound samples in the assessment battery of a comprehensive speech
sound assessment? - correct answer ✔✔-Connected/Conversational Speech Sampling
-Single word/citation format sampling
-Stimulability Testing
-Contextual Testing
-Error pattern identification
Stimulability Testing - correct answer ✔✔-Evaluating the ability to imitate the correct form for
sound in error.
-Used to:
> Determine whether a sound is likely to be acquired without intervention.
> Determine the level/type of production where instruction should begin.
-Predict generalization.
-Eliciation Procedures:
> Often employs "watch and listen"
>More specific placement/tactile cues may be provided if child is not successful.
> Hierarchy from most to least prompting.
> Examine stimulability of sounds, syllables, words.
Contextual Testing - correct answer ✔✔Evaluate consistency of errors in different phonetic
contexts.
-Determine if there are contexts where error sounds are produced correctly.
, Elicitation Procedures:
> Formal tests
> Informal tests
Error Pattern Identification - correct answer ✔✔-Provides a description of overall phonological
system.
-Facilitate treatment efficiency.
-May be based on phonological patterns, or on place, manner, voicing error patterns, or both.
-Pattern identification most important for kids with multiple error.
Elicitation Procedures:
> Several instruments exist for phonological pattern analysis.
What is the criteria for selecting phonological instruments? - correct answer ✔✔1. Sample
Obtained: Specific consonants and consonant clusters, specific vowels and diphthongs, linguistic
contexts for testing, stimulus presentation and type of sample.
2. Material Presentation: Attractiveness/appropriateness, compactness, manipulability of
materials, organization and format of scoring sheet.
3. Scoring and Analysis: Phonetic/phoneme analysis of consonants and vowels, sounds in
different positions of words, place, manner, voice analysis, phonological pattern analysis, age
appropriateness, speech sound stimulability, time required to complete analysis.
4. Transcription and Scoring Procedures: Correct/incorrect, IPA transcription (use of diacritics)
How do you analyze the accuracy of transcriptions? - correct answer ✔✔1. Auditory/Perceptual
Judgements: Validity, physiological and acoustic measures can supplement perceptual
judgements to increase accuracy.
2. Interjudge reliability: Point to point agreement between two judges.
3. Intrajudge Reliability: Point to point agreement within one judge.
Sciences Study Guide
Relational Analysis - correct answer ✔✔Evaluation of speech sounds relative to adult
standards .
Independent Analysis - correct answer ✔✔Inventory of sounds regardless of whether they are
"correct" or "incorrect"
What are the goals of speech sound assessment? - correct answer ✔✔-Determine if
intervention needed
-Determine the focus of tx
-Determine prognosis
-Monitor change
-Identify factors that may be related to the disorder.
What are screening for speech sound disorders used for? - correct answer ✔✔-Determine
whether comprehensive assessment is necessary.
-Not designed to identify diagnosis or to determine treatment directions.
*Strictly used to indicate the need for further testing.
-Designed to be brief -5 minutes or less.
Informal Screening - correct answer ✔✔-Not standardized or norm referenced.
-Tailored to specific population of interest.
-May include: Spontaneous speech/conversation, responding to particular questions, reading
standard passage, repeating standard set of word/sentences.
-Examiner determines if the person "passes"
,Formal Screening Measures - correct answer ✔✔-Standardized/norm referenced.
-Two general types:
>Instruments designed specifically to screen for speech sound development.
>Instruments designed for more general speech and language screening.
What are the speech sound samples in the assessment battery of a comprehensive speech
sound assessment? - correct answer ✔✔-Connected/Conversational Speech Sampling
-Single word/citation format sampling
-Stimulability Testing
-Contextual Testing
-Error pattern identification
Stimulability Testing - correct answer ✔✔-Evaluating the ability to imitate the correct form for
sound in error.
-Used to:
> Determine whether a sound is likely to be acquired without intervention.
> Determine the level/type of production where instruction should begin.
-Predict generalization.
-Eliciation Procedures:
> Often employs "watch and listen"
>More specific placement/tactile cues may be provided if child is not successful.
> Hierarchy from most to least prompting.
> Examine stimulability of sounds, syllables, words.
Contextual Testing - correct answer ✔✔Evaluate consistency of errors in different phonetic
contexts.
-Determine if there are contexts where error sounds are produced correctly.
, Elicitation Procedures:
> Formal tests
> Informal tests
Error Pattern Identification - correct answer ✔✔-Provides a description of overall phonological
system.
-Facilitate treatment efficiency.
-May be based on phonological patterns, or on place, manner, voicing error patterns, or both.
-Pattern identification most important for kids with multiple error.
Elicitation Procedures:
> Several instruments exist for phonological pattern analysis.
What is the criteria for selecting phonological instruments? - correct answer ✔✔1. Sample
Obtained: Specific consonants and consonant clusters, specific vowels and diphthongs, linguistic
contexts for testing, stimulus presentation and type of sample.
2. Material Presentation: Attractiveness/appropriateness, compactness, manipulability of
materials, organization and format of scoring sheet.
3. Scoring and Analysis: Phonetic/phoneme analysis of consonants and vowels, sounds in
different positions of words, place, manner, voice analysis, phonological pattern analysis, age
appropriateness, speech sound stimulability, time required to complete analysis.
4. Transcription and Scoring Procedures: Correct/incorrect, IPA transcription (use of diacritics)
How do you analyze the accuracy of transcriptions? - correct answer ✔✔1. Auditory/Perceptual
Judgements: Validity, physiological and acoustic measures can supplement perceptual
judgements to increase accuracy.
2. Interjudge reliability: Point to point agreement between two judges.
3. Intrajudge Reliability: Point to point agreement within one judge.
