BIOL 2160 : BIOL 2160 Exam 4 PPT 5 Cardiac Phys
Writing Prompt #1 – Sample #2
Stimulability can be defined as the degree to which accurate productions can be facilitated in a
child. When testing stimulability, a clinician is attempting to find how hard of a time a child has in
producing a certain sound. Sounds that are highly stimulable are thought to be learned without any
treatment. Sounds that are slightly less stimulable will improve with treatment while sounds with low
stimulability won’t improve even with treatment.
An SLP probes for stimulability by using a variety of cues. These include tactile (touch), auditory
(hearing), visual (placement and production), kinesthetic (movement), and orthographic (writing) cues.
The SLP attempts to get the child to produce the sound with as little cueing as possible. If a sound is
produced with little cueing, that sound is believed to be highly stimulable. If a sound is produced only
with a lot of cueing or not able to be produced at all, then that sound is considered non-simulatable.
Clinicians use stimulability scores to decide which phonemes or patterns to focus on in therapy.
Some clinicians focus on the highly stimulable sounds as a way to lay the foundation for learning less
stimulable sounds. Also a clinician may focus on more stimulable sounds because they consider non-
stimulable sounds to be too difficult to teach and frustrating for children to master. For this reason
some clinicians focus on sounds that are less stimulable because the highly stimulable sounds are
believed to come in anyway without treatment.
Document Summary
Stimulability can be defined as the degree to which accurate productions can be facilitated in a child. When testing stimulability, a clinician is attempting to find how hard of a time a child has in producing a certain sound. Sounds that are highly stimulable are thought to be learned without any treatment. Sounds that are slightly less stimulable will improve with treatment while sounds with low stimulability won"t improve even with treatment. An slp probes for stimulability by using a variety of cues. These include tactile (touch), auditory (hearing), visual (placement and production), kinesthetic (movement), and orthographic (writing) cues. The slp attempts to get the child to produce the sound with as little cueing as possible. If a sound is produced with little cueing, that sound is believed to be highly stimulable. If a sound is produced only with a lot of cueing or not able to be produced at all, then that sound is considered non-simulatable.
