Chapter 6- Evidence Based Practices

Question 0

What three prespectives must a clinician integrate from?

Answer 0

Scientific evidence
Clinical expertise
Client perspective

Question 1

What does EPB stand for?

Answer 1

Evidence based practice

Question 2

Out of 
Scientific evidence
Clinical expertise
Client perspective
Which is the most important?

Answer 2

SCIENCE

Question 3

Even when using EBP do clincians still make errors?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Why is research so important in our field?

Answer 4

It increases precision in making accueate diagnosis

Question 5

EBP provides a safe-guard against what?

Answer 5

“Fringe” therapies

Question 6

How do fringe therapies become popular?

Answer 6

Testimonials

Question 7

Who do fringe therapies appeal to?

Answer 7

Families where their child’s disorder has no known cure and progresss of treatment is slow

Question 8

What is an alternate treatment?

Answer 8

One that falls outside of conventional approaches

Question 9

What is assessment?

Answer 9

The systematic process of gathering information about an individual’s background, history, skills, knowledgs, perceptions and feelings

Question 10

What are the four purposes of assessment?

Answer 10

1- Identify skills that the person has/doesn’t have
2- Guide the design of intervention
3- Monitor a person’s communicative growth and performance over time
4- Qualify a person for special services

Question 11

What is screening?

Answer 11

The use of a test or task to conduct a QUICK check of an individual’s performance in a particular area

Question 12

What is the scope and sequence of communicative assessment?

Answer 12

1- Screening and referal
2- Design and Administer the assessment
3- Interpret assessment findings
4- Develop an intervention plan
5- Monitor progress and outcomes

Question 13

What is EHDI?

Answer 13

Newborn hearing screenings done in the neonatal unit of the hospital

Question 14

What is a referal?

Answer 14

The process by which SLP involvement is formally requested

Question 15

What happens once an SLP receives a referral?

Answer 15

Decide whether a more comprehensive assessment is warrented

Question 16

What is a chart review?

Answer 16

Systematic examination of documents prepared to record an individual’s developmental, educational, and medical history

Question 17

What are the federally required plans that identify specific goals for children and specific strategies for addressing these goals?

Answer 17

IFSP and IEP

Question 18

What is a unique vehicle for collecting information from individuals, their families, and caregivers, and other professionals who can aid in understanding the nature, history, and extent of the problem?

Answer 18

An interview

Question 19

What is the process of observing how an individual uses communication for functional purposes in activities in the real world called?

Answer 19

Systematic observation

Question 20

What is a formal mechanism for gathering information from the client?

Answer 20

Questionnaire or survey

Question 21

What is an offline assessment?

Answer 21

An assessment task that studies communicative processes after they happen

Question 22

What is an online examination of performance referring to?

Answer 22

Studying a communicative process as it happens

Question 23

What are norm-referenced tests used for?

Answer 23

Comparing an individual’s performance in a particular area with that of his/her same age peers

Question 24

What are criterion-referenced tests used for?

Answer 24

Determining an individual’s level of achievement in a particular area

Question 25

What three characteristics do all norm-referenced tests share?

Answer 25

1- standardization
2- normative sample
3- standard scores

Question 26

What are the three purposes of intervention?

Answer 26

1- prevention
2- remediation
3- compensation

Question 27

What three things should an intervention goal be?

Answer 27

Functional, measurable, and attainable