Speech Sound Disorders

In Eller's stages of infant phonological development, reduplicated babbling precedes which of the following?

• non reduplicated or variegated babbling

• Expansion

• Cooing

• Phonation

You are evaluating Ronnie, a 3-year-old boy who is moderately unintelligible. His phonetic inventory includes the phonemes /t, d, m, n , p, b/. He manifests the phonological pattern of final consonant deletion. In therapy, the most appropriate target word to focus on would be?

• Path

• Horse

• Map

• Whistle

Amanda has come back from a beach vacation with her parents, and excitedly tells you that she built a "thand castle." Amanda has just manifested which type of articulation error?

• Addition

• Distortion

• Coalescence

• Substitution

The therapy technique of "phonetic placement" is used to teach or establish which of the following?

• Auditory Discrimination

• Stimulability

• Production of a phoneme in isolation

• Minimal pair contrasts

Lynne is a 6-year-old child with dysarthria of speech secondary to cerebral palsy. You can expect that ________

• Labiodental fricatives will be the easiest sounds for her to produce

• Stops, glides, and nasals will be easier for her to produce then fricatives, affricates, and liquids

• There is a strong possibility that her intelligibility will be impacted by hoarseness

• She will not show voicing errors when she produces sounds

A 3 year old child is receiving therapy for remediation of several phonological patterns. She very frequently says things like tar/kar, do/go, and ti/ki. These productions show that she is using the phonological pattern of which of the following?

• fronting

• Glottal replacement

• Stopping

• Prevocalic voicing

The articulation therapy approach that emphasizes the syllable as the basic unit of speech production and heavily uses the concept of phonetic environment is which of the following?

• McDonald's sensorimotor approach

• The maximal contrast approach

• The metaphor approach

• Van Riper's traditional approach

A relational analysis is more commonly used in clinical settings whereas an independent analysis is more likely to be used with children with limited phonological repertoires.

• True

• False