Characteristics of a diagnostic clinician

Normal aspects of speech and language development has to be known by a diagnostician

• Yes

• No

• Need not be always

• I don't know the answer

A clinician working in a hospital setup encounters voice and aphasia cases. Can he say that he has got good clinical experience in diagnosing speech and language disorders? (a)  

• No, he cannot claim so
• Yes, he can claim so
• I do not know the answer

Repeated experience with ​ ​ (a)   gives great flexibility for a diagnostic clinician

• various type of cases
• repeated type of cases
• large number of cases

A good clinician should accept any 'new technique' of treament that gets published in standard literature (a)  

• I agree
• I partially agree
• I do not agree

A clinician working in the area of "apraxia" starts identifying many cases with apraxia after reading a 'new article' published in a journal. Can we agree with the clinician's approach?

• Yes, he is right

• No, one should not base the diagnosis on one article

• May be he can use the knowledge to diagnose the cases

• I do not know the answer

Does an experienced clinician need to evaluate every client's speech-language perofrmance?

• He can diagnose with his experience

• Evaluating the performance is always better than relying on his experience

• He cannot diagnose just with his experience

• Performance evaluation of client is not required for an experienced clinician

Does any child's speech and language performance vary with the clinician's familiarity?

• No, it does not

• Yes, it affects

• sometimes yes

• I do not know the answer

Can a clinicians' personal problems influence his/her day-to-day clinical performance?

• NO

• Yes, it needs to be controlled

• personal problems cannot interfere professional arena

A clinician should guard against emotional involvement with the client (a)  

• Yes
• No
• I do not know the answer

A clinician should always use standardized test material while diagnosing speech and language behaviour

• Yes, I strongly agree

• Somewhat agree

• I disagree

• I strongly disagree