Assessment of Phonology and Articulation Disorders

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Assessment of Phonology and Articulation Disorders

• Is there a disorder?
• Is it a disorder of articulation,
• phonology, or both?
• How severe is the disorder?

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Parts of Assessment

• Administer standardized assessments
• Speech sound inventory - which sounds can he say?
• Listing of phonemic errors substitutions,
  distortions,
• omissions
• Phonological process analysis FCD, weak
  syllable deletion, etc.
• Get speech sample
• Syllable structure analysis - CV, CVC, CVCV, etc.
• Intelligibility analysis percentage or rating
  scale

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Associated Assessments

• Hearing assessment
• Oral motor examination
• Language assessment
• Phonological awareness
• Stimulability assessment

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Making a statement of prognosis

• Prognostic indicators
• How consistent is the error?
• How stimulable is the client to produce the
  target?
• Can the client discriminate correct from
  incorrect productions of the target?
• Are there other problems (cerebral palsy, etc.)
• How old is the client?
• Has the client had therapy previously?

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Intervention for Articulation

• Ear training
• Production training
• Establishment of the sound
• Practice of the sound
• Carryover (generalization) of the sound
• Drill and drill-play activities followed by more
  naturalistic sessions

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Intervention for Phonology

• Cycles approach
• Auditory bombardment
• Minimal pairs
• Practice activities
• Auditory bombardment
• Home practice

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Websites

• www.thelittlestvoice.com ideas for apraxia
  treatment
• www.apraxia-kids.org ideas for apraxia
  treatment
• http//members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/slp-eurek
  a.htm - SLP info page