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Sample study questions about communication sampling procedures.



Related Titles:

Speech and Language Clinical Process and Practice

Introduction to Language Pathology, Fourth Edition







Sample Study Questions

Excerpted from Chapter 5 of Introduction to Clinical Methods in Communication Disorders, Second Edition, edited by Rhea Paul, Ph.D. & Paul W. Cascella, Ph.D.

Copyright © 2007 by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.



Each chapter of Introduction to Clinical Methods in Communication Disorders concludes with study questions to help students learn the key concepts contained within the chapter. The following questions appear at the end of Chapter 5.

  1. Why is communication sampling an important part of assessment?

  2. What are the specific questions an assessment of nonverbal communication attempts to answer?

  3. For what kind of samples is video recording needed? Audio recording?

  4. What sampling contexts are appropriate for preschoolers? School-age children? Adults?

  5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of computer-assisted analysis methods? Of manual methods?

  6. How are utterances segmented in transcription of preschool language samples? School-age samples? Adult samples?

  7. In addition to looking at syntax, what other areas need to be examined in communication samples of adults with acquired disorders?

  8. Discuss two methods for assessing speech intelligibility.

  9. Discuss the difference between stuttering and maze behavior dysfluencies. Why is this distinction important?

  10. What is the "Rainbow Passage" and for what is it used?

  11. How are voice quality, resonance, and prosody typically assessed using communication sampling?

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