Chapter 1

What does the acronym SSD stand for? 

• Speech Sound Disorder

• Sound Speech Disorder

• Speech Sound Delay

What are three “typical risk factors” of SSD’s (do not include "maybe" or "controversial" findings).

• family history

• low socioeconomic status (SES)

• male gender

• low maternal education

• African American race

Someone can not have an articulation and a phonological disorder at the same time.

• False

• True

Speech sounds are the ______________ of our larger language skills.

10% of the population has a disorder of communication

• True

• False

50% to 80% of children who have a communication disorder may actually have an SSD (can be articulation or phonological)

• False

• True

Traditional error analysis in diagnosing an articulation disorder includes...

• Cluster Reduction

• Omissions

• Substitutions

• Distortions

• Fronting

Traditional error analysis in diagnosing a phonological disorder includes...

• Cluster Reduction

• Omissions

• Substitutions

• Distortions

• Fronting

SSDs were described as Articulation disorders prior to 1970s, before the onset of generative linguistics.

Phonological disorders, mid to late 1970s (6,7,8); subsequent to the onset of phonological theories

• True

• False

The most common organic (structural) condition that causes an articulation disorder is the clefts of the lip and palate

• True

• False