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A-Z: Assessment for Severe Phonological Disorders

A-Z: Assessment for Severe Phonological Disorders
Kathleen R. Fahey, PhD, CCC-SLP
November 5, 2015
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There are many purposes in completing a speech sound system assessment.  For our purposes today, we will focus on phonological disorders.  However, part of that means that we have to engage in differential diagnoses.  That is during the course of our assessment sessions, we have to do some ruling out.  We have to rule out articulation.  We have to rule out motor speech disorders and suspected childhood apraxia of speech.  Of all the purposes of assessment listed below, we will focus on the nature and the severity of the disorder and a little bit on selecting targets for intervention. Selecting targets will be discussed very thoroughly in future sessions.  


kathleen r fahey

Kathleen R. Fahey, PhD, CCC-SLP

Emeritus Faculty, University of Northern Colorado

Kathleen Fahey, PhD, emeritus faculty University of Northern Colorado, is a speech-language pathologist with 38 years’ experience specializing in speech sound system disorders, normal speech-language development, and childhood speech and language disorders. She has authored textbooks on normal speech and language development, and has numerous publications and presentations. Kathleen served as the Colorado SLP state consultant, is a founding member of the Colorado Consortium to Train SLPAs, and coordinates the online master’s degree program at UNC, and teaches online. She is the speech-language pathology and audiology editor for continuingeducation.com

 



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