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Question 1

Variables Associated with Speech Development

Answer 1

1.Anatomic, physiologic, and neurologic variables
2. Motor skills
3. Syndromes
4. Neurodevelopmental disorders
5. Sensory deficits
6. Language skills
7. Personal characteristics
8. Tongue thrust

Question 2

Variables that affect the speech production mechanism may
impede

Answer 2

typical speech production and the acquisition of speech
sounds

Question 3

variables of speech development anatomic structures

Answer 3

lips, teeth, tongue, hard palate, and
soft palate, etc

Question 4

lips

Answer 4

must examine lip size, strength, and mobility.
can fix early on
gross deviations in structure or physiology
may impede speech sound acquisition.
 May include cleft palate of the lip(s)

Question 5

teeth

Answer 5

important for labiodental, interdental, and some alveolar phonemes
 May be missing, mal-positioned, or misaligned.
 Misalignment considered malocclusion I, II, III.:
 Missing teeth also consideration
 Misalignment or missing teeth do not invariably cause articulation
disorders

Question 6

tounge

Answer 6

adaptable, lots of ways to compisate

Question 7

Ankyloglossia

Answer 7

short lingual frenum, aka tongue tie
 An extremely short frenum may be associated with speech sound disorders (SSDs).
 Not a cause of SSD for the majority of children

Question 8

Class I Malocclusion:

Answer 8

dental arches aligned, a few teeth are misaligned.

Question 9

Class II Malocclusion:

Answer 9

lower jaw receded and upper jaw protruded.

Question 10

Class III Malocclusion:

Answer 10

lower jaw protruded and upper jaw receded.

Question 11

DDK -diadochokinetic

Answer 11

a child with DDK is slow,

Client asked to produce rapidly alternating and continuous speech sounds
as quickly as possible.
 Repetitions of /pʌ/, /tʌ/, /kʌ/, /pʌtə/, /pʌtəkə/
 Count the number of syllables during a 10 to 15 second duration or the
time it takes to produce a certain number of syllables.
 Articulation disorders may correlate with slow and imprecise DDK rates;
however, may have disordered articulation and normal DDK rates.

Question 12

Identify what an SLP must consider when assessing a bilingual/English language learner.

Answer 12

When assessing a bilingual or English language learner the question must
be posed: is there a true disorder or a language/sound system difference