Motor Speech Practice: Out and About and across the Day, Making Practice Fun and Making Practice Matter

27 Sep Motor Speech Practice: Out and About and across the Day, Making Practice Fun and Making Practice Matter

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Multiple Choice: Select the one best answer

When selecting targets for home-practice it is helpful to consider_______.

a. child’s ability to produce the target successfully within the treatment session.

b. types of activities and natural contexts that might facilitate the functional use of the target.

c. the comfort level of the family member or parent receiving the home-practice assignment.

d. the child’s motivation to produce the target.

all of the above

When creating a treatment plan, developing a plan for home and community practice
should be__________.

a. integrated into the plan as soon as possible.

b. deferred until the child can produce intelligible speech at the sentence level.

c. avoided unless the family has an advanced degree in speech-language pathology.

d. included if the child enjoys extra practice.

Practice at home and within the community can facilitate___________.

a. generalization across communication partners.

b. generalization across environments.

c. independence as a communicator.

d. additional repetitions of targets

e. all of the above

ASHA’s Technical Report of CAS recommends that treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech is frequent, intensive, individualized, and _________.

a. fun.

b. artistic.

c. naturalistic.

d. innovative.

The primary goal of motor speech treatment should be to__________.

a. improve performance within the session.

b. introduce as many single phonemes as possible.

c. maximize learning (i.e. retention and transfer beyond the session).

d. teach a child he/she must say a sound to obtain a toy.

Home and community practice plans should be___________.

a. consistent across families to ensure fairness across clients.

b. individualized.

c. given when there is time allowed.

d. provided when requested.

Multiple strategies can be utilized to help families understand how to help their children practice. It is important that feedback be__________.

a. non-specific to avoid hurting the feelings of family members.

b. specific.

c. written.

d. verbal

ASHA’s Technical Report of CAS states an important element for optimal progress and
carryover is to_________.

a. read to children and encourage parents to read to them.

b. require a level of 90% accuracy or above before giving practice homework to family members.

c. obtain a high level of continuing education.

d. involve as many important people in the child’s life as possible, in a culturally appropriate manner, in understanding and completing therapy goals outside the treatment setting.

Home and community practice plans may include helping family members
learn______________.

a. how to elicit targets without relying on a model.

b. ways to provide differential reinforcement and feedback.

c. cuing strategies to provide a child with the right amount and type of support when needed.

d. ways to incorporate practice throughout the day.

e. ways to include important people in a child’s life as practice partners.

f. all of the above.

Home and community practice plans will likely need to be ____________ over time to address a child’s evolving needs and interests and family’s circumstances.

a. lengthened

b. modified

c. approved by a committee

d. discontinued

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