Determining the Need for Intervention, Target Selection, Remedia

The approximate intelligibility expectation for a child at 4 years of age is:

• 90-100%

• 60-70%

• 75-80%

• 35-50%

Percentage of consonants correct is calculated by dividing which of the following, and multiplying by 100%

• the number of consonants produced correctly by the number of consonants found in English

• the number of consonants produced correctly by the number of consonants targeted

• the number of consonants produced correctly by the number of consonants produced incorrectly

• the number of consonants produced overall by the number of consonants produced incorrectly

TRUE/FALSE: Idiosyncratic patterns after age of 2 suggest phonological disorder.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: Identifying the phonological process exhibited provides insight as to why the error is occurring.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: On average, children acquire /s/ later than they acquire /t/

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: On average, children acquire stops before they acquire fricatives.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is representative of atypical speech behavior?

• Affrication being exhibited at age 5

• Deaffrication being exhibited at age 3

• Stopping being exhibited at age 2

• Gliding being exhibited at age 4

If a child's evaluation reveals that they would benefit substantially from speech therapy but the child's caregiver would prefer a "wait and watch" approach, what might you tell them (as the school SLP)?

TRUE/FALSE: Producing target sounds in a single syllable is typically more motorically difficult than producing them in a phrase.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: Intermittent scheduling is most commonly used for speech intervention sessions in public schools.

• TRUE

• FALSE