SLP - Speech-Language Pathology Speech Sound Production Disorders Questions and Answers

Question 1

A 7-year-old child demonstrates highly unintelligible speech characterized by multiple, variable sound errors.
For example, the word "superman" is produced as "tupamæ", "fuman", and "sutami" within the same evaluation session.
The child is able to produce most individual sounds in isolation when prompted.
Which treatment approach would be most appropriate for this child?

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Core Vocabulary Approach

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Minimal Pairs Contrast Therapy

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Cycles Phonological Pattern Approach

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Traditional Articulation (Van Riper) Approach

Question 2

An SLP is differentiating between Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and Dysarthria in a 5-year-old. Which of the following characteristics is more indicative of CAS than Dysarthria?

Accepted Answer

Inconsistent errors on repeated productions of the same word and groping for articulatory postures

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Consistent, predictable speech errors across all contexts

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Slurred speech quality and weak, breathy voice

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Difficulties limited to the production of later-developing sounds like /r/ and /s/

Question 3

A 4-year-old child consistently substitutes /t/ for /k/ (e.g., "tat" for "cat") and /d/ for /g/ (e.g., "doe" for "go"). This child demonstrates a phonological pattern known as:

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Fronting

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Stopping

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Gliding

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Cluster Reduction

Question 4

Which of the following is the key difference between an articulation disorder and a phonological disorder?

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An articulation disorder is a problem with the physical production of specific speech sounds, while a phonological disorder involves a pattern of errors related to the rules of a language's sound system. [26, 28]

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An articulation disorder involves voice and fluency, while a phonological disorder involves only consonants.

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Children with phonological disorders can never produce the target sound correctly, even in isolation, whereas children with articulation disorders can.

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Phonological disorders are only diagnosed in bilingual children, while articulation disorders can affect any child.

Question 5

An SLP is designing an intervention for a child with a moderate phonological disorder characterized by final consonant deletion. The SLP selects pairs of words like "bee"/"beach" and "go"/"goat" to highlight the semantic difference the final consonant makes. This treatment technique is known as:

Accepted Answer

Minimal Pairs Approach

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Cycles Approach

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Maximal Oppositions Approach

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Metaphon Therapy

Question 6

During a comprehensive speech sound assessment, which of the following components is critical for determining if a child's errors are developmental or disordered?

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All of the above

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Conducting a hearing screening to rule out hearing loss

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Administering a standardized articulation test to obtain a standard score

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Analyzing the child's productions in both single words and connected speech [1]