C_S_D 4320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Learning Disability, Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate, Speech Delay
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Speech sound disorders: speech sound production is abnormal or disordered, implies potential need for treatment, major differentiation underlying causality = etioloty (in adults and children. Neuro-motor, carcinoma, cva, cleft palate, hearing loss: non-organic. Learning, models, reinforcement, unknown: gray areas. Unknown does not imply absence of organic. What difference does etiology make: usefulness of knowing, or determining, etiology. Setting short term and long term goals. Family and client interviews and counseling: determining etiology, prognosis, and appropriate treatment is an ongoing process. The ongoing process: begins with assessment, trial therapy, response to treatment, evaluating and revising goals and prognosis, family and client counseling *more. Outcome: over time : organic etiology may have smaller impact than expected, non-organic etiology may be harder to treat than expected, gray areas and unknown etiologies may become clearer over time or not, influential client and family variables emerge.
