Study Guide Flashcards
What is the ultimate goal for speech and language treatment?
improve communication skills
What is the individualized goal for speech and language treatment based on?
evaluation of specific communication patterns and needs
With inclusive treatment, who does this include?
- family
- teacher
- community members
What does comprehensive treatment meet?
all communication needs at all stages of development
During comprehensive treatment, What do we focus on during the Early Years?
- foundational skills
- development
- working on developing early sounds, building vocabulary, language, communication, social pragmatic skills–these all lead to communication!
During comprehensive treatment what must we do during the school years?
-must relate to the educational setting
What must we focus on beyond the school years during comprehensive treatment?
- functional communication systems
- facilitate relatioinships
By age 16 what does the law mandate?
-law mandates the child has to understand the goals. They are often invited to IEP meetings
What is Behavior modification?
-provide stimulus, response, then there is a consequence
What is Evidence-based practice (EBP)?
-IDEA mandates that the therapy we provide must be evidence-based practice. Meaning it should be well-researched and show long term positive approach
What is child-directed therapy?
- child led therapy, but the clinician gives the client options to choose from.
- the premise is that your maintaining the child’s motivational level
What is clinician directed therapy?
the clinician is directing and telling the client what they will be doing
What kind of therapy do most clinicians use?
-most clinicians include multiple method of therapy, they do not focus on just one
What is a baseline?
that student’s current level of functioning prior to any treatment being rendered
What is target behavior?
- the skill or the action we are trying to teach.
- It is established from the assessment that we had conducted
What is a probe?
-instrumental testing/informal testing that measures the client’s progress over time
What is reinforcement?
any stimuli provided to the child during their correct production of the sound
give some examples of positive reinforcement.
“good job”
smile
stickers
What is negative reinforcement?
- refraining from producing stimuli until the clinician provides the corrective feedback
- don’t say “bad job”
What are long term goals?
projected a year from assessment process
what are short-term goals?
small goals (benchmarks) that work toward supporting the overall long term goal
When is a probe performed?
Whenever the therapist chooses to do it. Once a week, once a month, every therapy session, once every three months, etc…
What is tactile cueing? and give some examples.
- this is a prompt that is used to facilitate the correct production of the sound
- tapping on the shoulder
- tap the chin as a reminder to close the mouth
What does kinesthetic cueing mean?
-helping by facilitating the coordinated movements for a sound