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CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION - ✔✔The record of clinical observations and care a patient receives During data collection, choose the following duties that are within the scope of practice for the SLPA - ✔✔prepare charts or graphs regarding treatment data tally or record specific behaviors presented during tx what documentation items are within the scope of practice to be completed by the SLPA? - ✔✔Lesson Plans, SOAP Notes/Data Logs, Progress Reports When collecting data to determine a client's progress, what component of the goal should be used to examine the behavior to determine if the client's responses are to be reinforced (given a "+") or corrected (given a "-")? - ✔✔Performance A progress report may be written by an SLPA; it does not require the approval of the SLP. - ✔✔False, may be written independently by a SLPA, but MUST be approved by SLP
When reading an objective from a treatment plan, at minimum, understanding the following 3 components are pivotal to the success of your treatment. - ✔✔Performance, Condition, Criterion A guide to help you to determine what you will do in terms of therapy for the day/week. It can be highly detailed, especially for the new clinician or a difficult case, or it can be very minimal. It typically has treatment objective listed along with the activity, materials, and cueing strategies. It is written by either an SLP or SLPA. - ✔✔Lesson Plan Review the following goals, state if the goal is written appropriately or missing any main components: During a structured activity, Taylor will produce /l/ in initial and medial positions of words, with 80% accuracy, with no prompts/cues, across 3 sessions. - ✔✔Written appropriately! Review the following goal, choose the type of responses that you would expect your client to produce. This is what you will focus on to demonstrate understanding of the goal.
Review the following goal, select the "performance" criteria. When presented with a structured conversation, Peter will demonstrate interest in his conversational partner by asking 3 relevant questions about the topic, in 6 our of 7 trials, with not more than 1 cue. - ✔✔Ask 3 relevant questions about the topic (Measurable verb (ask 3 ?s) that you can observed is used. Client will receive a positive tally mark each time he maintains topic by asking a total of 3 ?s. If client only asks 1 question, then that client will need to be cued. If that works after 1 cue, and client produces a total of 3 questions, then he gets a positive mark. If client requires more than 1 cue, or doesn't ask 3 questions, then he gets a negative mark. ANALYZING GOALS - ✔✔Match the Performance, Condition, Criterion to the appropriate labels... When given a visual stimulus, the client will produce stops in the initial position of words with 80% accuracy when provided with moderate verbal and visual cueing.
- Criterion - ✔✔Performance - produce stops in initial positions of words Criterion - 80% accuracy Condition - given a stimulus, moderate verbal and visual cueing The client will demonstrate the use of "easy relaxed speech" at the 2 - 3 sentence level in response to open-ended conversation ?s with 90% accuracy and minimum verbal cues. - ✔✔Performance - use of "easy relaxed speech" at the 2 - 3 sentence level Criterion - 90% accuracy Condition - in response to open-ended conversation ?s The client will label actions when given a verbal prompt while reading picture books with 90% accuracy. - ✔✔Performance - label actions Criterion - 90% accuracy Condition - given a verbal prompt while reading picture books Client will verbally segment 3 words into syllables when given a written list of 25 multisyllabic words with not more than 5 errors produced. - ✔✔Performance - verbally segment 3 words into syllables
Client will improve voice quality while reciting nursery rhymes with less than one parameter break per minute. - ✔✔Performance What is wrong with the goal, the Performance, Condition, or Criterion? Client will use the regular past tense words with 75% accuracy. - ✔✔Condition Client will produce /s/ phoneme in initial positions of words while reading grade level curriculum text with 80% accuracy and no cues.
- What behavior will you collect data on?
- What essential material(s) are required to adequately elicit the goal? - ✔✔1) collect data on client's production of /s/ phoneme in the initial of words only
- need grade level curriculum text reading materials Client will produce actions within a 5 - word sentence when describing pics with 80% accuracy with minimum visual cueing.
- What behavior will you collect data on?
- What essential material(s) are required to adequately elicit the goal? - ✔✔1. ability to produce a 5-word sentence w appropriate action labeled
- Pictures with actions - cards, books, pics. Client will answer wh-?s after listening to a 3 - 4 sentence story with 80% accuracy and moderate (2-3) cues.
- What behavior will you collect data on?
- What essential material(s) are required to adequately elicit the goal? - ✔✔1. Ability to answer wh-?s
- Short 3 - 4 sentence stories to read to client What part of the goal should the clinician use to determine what behavior(s) to shape by providing reinforcement and/or corrective feedback? This part of the goal is used to collect data on a goal. A) Performance B) Criteria C) Condition - ✔✔A) Performance What part of the goal should the clinician use to guide the type of activity to be developed to evoke specific target(s)? This part of the goal determines the situation that a behavior is to be elicited to ensure that the client's needs are addressed.
True or False: If a person is suspected of having a comm disorder, they are entitled to receive treatment from a Speech Language Pathologist. - ✔✔False When introducing new skills to clients, it is imp for clinicians to provide direct teaching to increase understanding of the concept/strategy being targeted. List and describe 3 strategies that may be used by the clinician to teach clients effectively in your treatment setting, - ✔✔1. Questioning to determine how much the student understands, remembers, or can comprehend. Use wh-questions to assess student's interpretive skills or perspective-taking abilities
- Describing - model describing an object or character and ask student to list any other characteristics, etc.
- Demonstrations - demonstrate good social skills A scaffolding strategy that involves the clinician providing feedback regarding the accuracy or inaccuracy of a client's response. a) shaping by successive approximation b) fading
c) target-specific feedback d) modeling - ✔✔c) target-specific feedback Choose the correct responses regarding strategies of prompts/cues. a) prompting involves the strategies used to elicit a specific response for a target goal b) cueing involves the strategies that are provided to in an attempt to shape incorrect responses into acceptable productions c) prompting involves the strategies that are provided to in an attempt to shape incorrect responses into acceptable productions d) prompting and cueing have the same meaning - ✔✔a) prompting involves the strategies used to elicit a specific response for a target goal b) cueing involves the strategies that are provided to in an attempt to shape incorrect responses into acceptable productions Interactive group therapy is encouraged to ensure that all clients are actively involved in speech therapy during treatment activity. List 2 strategies that you may use or encourage clients to use to facilitate interactive group therapy in homogenous or heterogeneous groups. - ✔✔- peer modeling
a) info that client has shared with you via while sharing a casual story regarding their difficulty and embarrassment of stuttering b) a video recording of a child getting frustrated due to a severe artic disorder within their home envt c) a thank you note written to you regarding the appreciation for being very kind and pleasant d) info gathered while reading a client's assessment report - ✔✔a) info that client has shared with you via while sharing a casual story regarding their difficulty and embarrassment of stuttering b) a video recording of a child getting frustrated due to a severe artic disorder within their home envt d) info gathered while reading a client's assessment report A mandated reporter is required to report known or suspected abuse of all of the following EXCEPT:
- children
- any person that appears to be in danger of abuse from someone that they live with
- elderly adults
- dependent adults - ✔✔- children
- elderly adults
- dependent adults True or False: ASHA's Code of Ethics provides guidance to ensure the highest standards of integrity and ethical principles. Violation of these principles will result in immediate suspension of the SLPA license, regardless of they type of infraction. - ✔✔False ASHA's Code of Conduct is the framework to guide the SLPA in making ethical decisions. It is similar to the Code of Ethics established for SLPs and Auds. However, when comparing the 2 frameworks, there is not a Principle of Conduct dedicated to honoring the "responsibility to achieve and maintain the highest level of professional competence and performance" that is found in principle 2 of Code of Ethics.
- Does Principle of Conduct address the responsibility to achieve and maintain the highest level of competence and performance for the SLPA?
- If so, list Principle of Conduct # and Conduct letter. - ✔✔1. Does Principle of Conduct address the responsibility to achieve and maintain the highest level of competence and performance for the SLPA? Yes
or clinical/business sites— with others, specifically including the practitioner's family members and friends. Practitioners sometimes think that if they do not use the client's name such discussions are acceptable, but this is not true. Any description of, or comment about, a client who is being served constitutes disclosure of confidential information. True or False: When working w a minor and you have reasonable suspicion that your client is being abused, you must find some sort of proof to support your suspicion to prevent being found liable for slander and/or false accusations. - ✔✔False: "No proof of abuse or neglect is needed, only "reasonable suspicion" that child abuse or neglect may have occurred. If you are at all concerned about the possibility of abuse or neglect, you should report. Investigations will be conducted by law enforcement and/or the county child welfare department to determine if abuse or neglect has occurred. Delayed reporting while awaiting further information may hinder investigation by the appropriate agencies." You are working in a medical setting as an SLPA at a rehabilitation hospital that offers both inpatient and outpatient services to both adults and children. One of your oldest and dearest friends work at the hospital as a pediatric nurses and you two meet for lunch at least one time per week. During lunch, you both are talking about your careers and you share with the nurse,
your friend, the wonderful progress that Mr. Johnson has made since you have been working with him on his dysarthric speech production.
- Considering you are speaking to another employee of the hospital that deals with patient care, are you violating Mr. Johnson's right to privacy by discussing this information with the nurse?
- Provide a rationale for your response. - ✔✔Yes, I would still be violating Mr. Johnson's right to privacy by discussing this information with the nurse. Even though she is a friend and she works at the same hospital, my supervising SLP has not given me permission to share my client's information with her. I should also not be discussing client information in a public area. SLPA SCOPE OF PRACTICE - ✔✔ True or False: ASHA Associates is the program offered by ASHA that governs or regulates the scope of practice of SLPAs. - ✔✔False True or False:
If requested to do so by an SLP, an SLPA may review and interpret assessment results and explain the information to a patient or family member when the SLP is not available to do so. - ✔✔False Identify the differences between the SLPA and the Speech Aide?
- receives of the job training
- is able to receive flexible supervision, which includes indirect supervision allowing the supervisor to be in a differnt location
- Requires specified educational and clinical training
- Requires Direct Supervision when working with clients - ✔✔Speech Aide- receives of the job training SLPA - is able to receive flexible supervision, which includes indirect supervision allowing the supervisor to be in a different location SLPA - Requires specified educational and clinical training Speech Aide - Requires Direct Supervision when working with clients True or False: Considering an SLPA will typically be assigned to a caseload and may see some clients more often than the supervising SLP, the SLPA may make small and reasonable
modifications to the client's goals or treatment plan to reflect the client's progress and current needs. - ✔✔False True or False: When working in the school district, an SLPA may assist the supervisor by typing information on required IEP forms in preparation for or during an IEP meeting. - ✔✔True True or False: When working with a client, Joshua (an SLPA) noticed the 4 year old had an extremely difficult time grasping small items (ex. pom-pom balls, pencils, crayons, cheerios, etc.) used in therapy and had noticed a tremor in the child's hand. Joshua had worked as a developmental therapist for 3 years prior to being an SLPA and was aware of the signs of fine-motor difficulties. Joshua decided to speak to the client's parents about the concern. The parents had noticed the concerns but didn't think anything of it because they thought the child would grow out of it. Joshua had shared his background as a developmental therapist and recommended that they contact an Occupational Therapist for a consultation. The parents were gracious that Joshua had spoken to them about his concern. Joshua is within his scope of practice as an SLPA because of his previous experience and he was considering the welfare of his client. - ✔✔False
