SLP Speech Sound Production Disorders 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which distinguishes a phonological disorder from a phonetic (articulation) disorder?
- Phonological disorders involve errors only on fricatives
- Phonological disorders reflect impaired knowledge of the sound system; phonetic disorders reflect motor/structural production difficulty (Correct answer)
- Phonetic disorders are always more severe
- Phonological disorders only occur in bilingual children
Correct answer: Phonological disorders reflect impaired knowledge of the sound system; phonetic disorders reflect motor/structural production difficulty
Phonological disorders involve deficits in the underlying rule system, while phonetic disorders involve difficulty with the physical production of sounds.
Question 2: Stimulability testing in articulation assessment primarily determines:
- Whether the child has a phonological disorder
- The child's ability to produce an error sound correctly given maximum cues (Correct answer)
- The severity of the disorder
- Whether surgery is indicated
Correct answer: The child's ability to produce an error sound correctly given maximum cues
Stimulability testing assesses whether a child can produce an error sound correctly when given auditory, visual, and tactile cues from the clinician.
Question 3: A child produces 'top' for 'stop' by deleting the initial cluster member. This is an example of:
- Final consonant deletion
- Cluster reduction (Correct answer)
- Assimilation
- Epenthesis
Correct answer: Cluster reduction
Cluster reduction involves omitting one or more consonants from a consonant cluster, simplifying it to a single consonant.
Question 4: The minimal pairs treatment approach works primarily by:
- Drilling sounds in isolation repetitively
- Creating communicative pressure to use phonemic contrasts accurately (Correct answer)
- Providing auditory bombardment of target sounds
- Teaching phonemic awareness skills only
Correct answer: Creating communicative pressure to use phonemic contrasts accurately
Minimal pairs treatment leverages communicative breakdown when phonemic contrasts are not maintained, motivating the child to produce target sounds accurately.
Question 5: In the place-voice-manner (PVM) classification, /f/ is described as:
- Bilabial voiced stop
- Labiodental voiceless fricative (Correct answer)
- Alveolar voiceless fricative
- Velar voiceless fricative
Correct answer: Labiodental voiceless fricative
/f/ is produced with the upper teeth and lower lip (labiodental), is voiceless, and involves continuous airflow through a narrow constriction (fricative).
Question 6: A child says 'gog' for 'dog,' replacing the alveolar with a velar. This phonological process is called:
- Fronting
- Backing (Correct answer)
- Stopping
- Vocalization
Correct answer: Backing
Backing is the process in which sounds produced at a more anterior place of articulation are replaced by sounds produced more posteriorly.
Question 7: Which assessment tool uses a continuous speech sample to calculate percentage of consonants correct (PCC)?
- Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3 (GFTA-3)
- Assessment of Phonological Processes-Revised (APP-R) (Correct answer)
- Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology (CAAP-2)
- Structured Photographic Articulation Test (SPAT-D3)
Correct answer: Assessment of Phonological Processes-Revised (APP-R)
The APP-R (Hodson) analyzes spontaneous connected speech to calculate PCC and identify phonological process use.
SLP Speech Sound Production Disorders 3
Which distinguishes a phonological disorder from a phonetic (articulation) disorder?