MB Cont 10725 DTTC Target Selection
MB Cont 10725 DTTC Target Selection
MB Cont 10725 DTTC Target Selection
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Implementing Dynamic Temporal
Tactile Cueing: Target Selection
and Progress Monitoring
Julie Case, PhD, CCC-SLP
Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD, CCC-SLP
Julie Case, PhD, CCC-SLP
Alternatively…
VC out, up, in
Consonant sequences that vary by Mad, Todd, sit, cheese (depends on what
manner and/or voicing sounds are in child’s inventory)
Maximum syllable shape produced by Ladybug, tuck me in, I wanna go, stop it, I
child (containing established phonemes) need you (depending on child’s inventory)
• Most kids have preferred topics and interests, ask them and
their parents to make sure treatment words reflect these
What to take caution with?
• Non-stimulable sounds
• Rhotics, rhotic clusters, rhotic vowels, and rhotic diphthongs
• Flaps
• Excessively complex words
• Morphosyntactic markers like plurals, pronouns, possessives,
and past tense verbs; -ing verbs are ok
Potential treatment targets
Word Shape
Early Mid Late
CV (Simple Vowel) me, he, yeah too, two she, see, shoe
CV (Diphthong) Hi, why, bye, no, tie, go, toy show
now, how
VC (Simple Vowel) Eat, em, in, up egg, ick, off, it ell, as, all
VC (Diphthong) out, age, ouch ice
Word Shape
Early Mid Late
CVCV (Same C and V) papa, mama choochoo, cocoa lulu
C1VC1 (Simple Vowel) dad, poop, mom, pop kick, toot sis, sauce
C1VC1 (Diphthong) nine
C1VC2 (Simple Vowel) need, done, bed juice, book, look, move cheese, zip,
push, wish
C1VC2 (Diphthong) mine, hope, nope, down loud shake, choice
5-syll hippopotamus
Vowel inventory
• Produces all vowels and diphthongs but not consistently
Stress Inventory
• Inconsistently produces accurate stress in bisyllabic and multisyllabic words
Patrick
Treatment words for Patrick
Vowel inventory
All vowels and diphthongs
Stress Inventory
Child demonstrates range of stress contours in bisyllabic and multisyllabic words
Treatment words for Carmelo
Syllable Shape Word
VC On
CV Me
CVC Book
CV (harder consonant, easier vowel) Shoe
CCVC Cloud
C1V1C1V2 Cookie
C1VC2V2 Maybe
C1V1C2V2C3 Begin
C1V1C2C3V2C4 Goodnight
C1V1C1V2C2V1C2 Lollipop
C1V1C2C3V2 Push me
V1C1V1C2 Above
But wait there’s more
Progress monitoring and treatment generalization
How do we monitor progress?
Long-term measures
• Changes in standardized test scores
• Improved intelligibility in connected speech
• Changes in measures of functional speech [e.g., Intelligibility in
Context Scale (ICS; McLeod et al., 2012), FOCUS-34 (Thomas-
Stonell et al., 2012)]
Semi-regular measures
• Treatment and generalization probe data
Probe Data
• Quick and semi-regular approach to assess acquisition,
learning, and generalization of treatment gains
• Measure acquisition (motor performance) through evaluating retention
of gains for words in active treatment
• Assess retention (motor learning) through evaluating maintenance of
previous treatment gains
• Evaluate generalization to untreated exemplars (motor learning)
• Administer pre-, during, and post-treatment to assess gains and
inform treatment planning
Benefits of Probe Testing
• Quantify degree of motor learning (as compared to within
session motor performance gains)
• Quick and efficient approach to obtaining treatment data
• Does not take the clinician's attention away from treatment
session
Q2
MACS
Whole Movt acc.
Word
item (3-pt
acc. scale)
Seg. Word Movt MACS
Pros.
Acc Struct. trans. Score
Puppy 0 0 0 1 0 0 .25
Bye 0 0 0 0 na 0 0
Summary
❑Let the results of your comprehensive and dynamic assessment inform target
selection.
❑Be sure to include a range of:
❑Vowels + diphthongs
❑Syllable shapes
❑Established/stimulable consonants
❑Words with more than one consonant (consider place/manner/voicing)
❑Stress patterns
❑Think about the function and communicative impact of your targets and
remember, if a word isn't useful for the child, don't use it in treatment!
❑Generate a list of treated words and similar, untreated words and collect probe
data to measure speech performance and motor learning
Q+A
Jenya.iuzzini-seigel@marquette.edu Insta: @Marquette_cml_lab
Julie.case@hofstra.edu Insta: @casespeechlab
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