Deck 4: Classification and Comorbidity in Speech Sound Disorders

Question 1

In twin studies, which type of twins have more highly correlated articulation skills:

A) Monozygotic
B) Dizygotic
C) Unozygotic
D) Bizygotic

Answer 1

Monozygotic

Question 2

Tongue thrust only has to do with swallowing.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The number of speech sound errors in children has been shown to decrease from first through fourth grade due to:

A) Attrition
B) Matriculation
C) Attention
D) Maturation

Answer 3

Maturation

Question 4

Children with missing teeth will always have a lisp.

Question 5

Frenum clipping is very rarely recommended for in individuals with ankyloglossia.

Question 6

In order to appropriately assess speech perception abilities, clinicians should examine: The specific phonemes in error, the context in which they are produced, motoric abilities, and ___________.

A) Expressive vocabulary
B) Nonverbal Intelligence
C) Receptive vocabulary
D) Letter knowledge

Question 7

Personality may contribute to speech sound disorders. Specifically, parents of children with SSD have reported their child to be:

A) Not sensitive
B) Very bold
C) Overly sensitive
D) Very friendly

Question 8

Phonological deficits often co-occur with deficits in what area of language:

A) Pragmatics
B) Morphosyntax
C) Semantics
D) Voice

Question 9

Tongue thrust will always affect dentition.

Question 10

Children with speech sounds disorders are likely to have academic difficulties in what specific areas:

A) English, spelling, grammar
B) Reading, spelling, phonological awareness
C) Social studies, science, math
D) Reading, math, spelling

Question 11

Ankyloglossia refers to:

A) An enlarged tongue
B) A short frenum
C) A long tongue
D) A partially removed tongue

Question 12

Significantly more males have a speech sound disorder compared to females.

Question 13

Intelligence plays an important role in articulation skills in what population:

A) Individuals with severe cognitive impairments
B) All populations
C) Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing
D) Individuals with autism

Question 14

Research has shown that children who use a pacifier may be 3 times more likely to develop a speech sound disorder compared to children who do not use a pacifier.

Question 15

Personality may be linked to speech sound production.

Question 16

The most common speech sound error seen in individuals with tongue thrust is:

A) /w/ for /r/ substitutions
B) Fronting
C) Backing
D) Sibilant distortions

Question 17

Removal of part or all of the hard palate would have a detrimental effect to speech production.

Question 18

A combination of which two approaches is suggested for treatment of tongue thrust:

A) Phonological awareness and minimal pairs
B) Cycles and articulation approach
C) Articulation treatment and oral myofunctional therapy
D) Minimal pairs and oral myofunctional

Question 19

Oral tactile sensitivity is typically most sensitive at the midline of anatomical structures.

Question 20

Research does not support a connection between otitis media and speech sound disorders.

Question 21

What are the three ways that tongue thrust can present?

Question 22

Name three roles of speech perception in speech production abilities.

Question 23

Children with SSD often struggle with reading and spelling. Interestingly, children with SSD have often exhibited the same errors in their spelling as they do in their speech. Discuss why this may be?

Question 24

Discuss the link between language and phonology. What areas of language are most closely related to phonological disorders?

Question 25

Discuss the factors that have contributed to the mixed findings in the literature regarding whether or not otitis media with effusion OME) is related to speech sound disorders.

Question 26

Discuss the top-down versus bottom-up theories of speech production.