CCC Speech Sound Disorders 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which evidence-based approach uses minimal pairs to contrast error and target sounds to facilitate phonological change?
- DTTC
- Cycles approach
- Minimal opposition contrast therapy (Correct answer)
- Nuffield dyspraxia programme
Correct answer: Minimal opposition contrast therapy
Minimal opposition contrast therapy pairs words that differ by only one phoneme to highlight the communicative impact of the error.
Question 2: The Cycles Approach was developed primarily to treat which type of disorder?
- Apraxia of speech
- Highly unintelligible phonological disorders (Correct answer)
- Voice disorders
- Stuttering
Correct answer: Highly unintelligible phonological disorders
The Cycles Approach, developed by Hodson and Paden, targets children with highly unintelligible speech due to multiple phonological process errors.
Question 3: Which phonological process involves moving a back consonant to a more anterior position, such as saying 'tat' for 'cat'?
- Backing
- Fronting (Correct answer)
- Stopping
- Vocalization
Correct answer: Fronting
Fronting occurs when velar or palatal sounds are replaced by alveolar or dental sounds.
Question 4: A speech-language pathologist selects intervention targets using a complexity approach. Which sounds are prioritized?
- Early-developing sounds the child inconsistently produces
- Late-developing sounds the child does not produce (Correct answer)
- Sounds the child produces correctly in isolation
- Sounds with the highest stimulability
Correct answer: Late-developing sounds the child does not produce
The complexity approach targets late-developing, non-stimulable sounds to promote system-wide generalization.
Question 5: Percentage of consonants correct (PCC) is a metric used to quantify which aspect of speech?
- Prosody
- Voice quality
- Intelligibility
- Articulation accuracy (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Articulation accuracy
PCC measures the proportion of consonants produced correctly in a speech sample, reflecting articulation accuracy.
Question 6: Which term describes a speech error that is inconsistent across repeated productions of the same word?
- Consistent error
- Phonological delay
- Variable error (Correct answer)
- Assimilation error
Correct answer: Variable error
Variable (inconsistent) errors occur when a child produces the same word differently across multiple trials, which may indicate childhood apraxia of speech.
CCC Speech Sound Disorders 2
Which evidence-based approach uses minimal pairs to contrast error and target sounds to facilitate phonological change?