SLP 286 Speech Intervention with Children, Adolescents and Adults

1. Use appropriate materials and models to elicit target speech sounds.
2. Provide production instructions/directions that are clear, concise, and appropriate to developmental age and level of understanding, including various types of modeling, cuing, and prompting.
3. Follow intervention protocols of varying complexities in modifying speech behavior.
4. Apply various types of reinforcement schedules to increase the number of correct behaviors produced.
5. Provide accurate feedback based on the correctness of the student’s/client’s response.
6. Maintain on-task behavior in group and individual intervention contexts.
7. Provide age-appropriate and culturally sensitive treatment materials specific for the targeted speech sound(s) that are the focus of the session.
8. Accurately record target speech behaviors, and compute the degree of the student’s/client’s response during intervention sessions.
9. Describe, using behavioral terms, a student’s/client’s behavior.
10. Summarize the progress verbally and in the clinical record in a data-driven format.
11. Differentiate between identification of speech sound and phonological speech disorders and interventions. 

• Anatomy and Physiology: Therapy Models 
• Motor Planning Issues in Therapy 
• Speech Screening
• The Therapy Session 
• Apraxia and Dysarthria 
• Documentation Methods 
• Treatment Approaches Across Different Age Groups