Data collection

Question 1

What is the purpose of collecting data?

Answer 1

• To prove to third party payers that progress has been made and that further treatment is warranted
• To demonstrate to the client the progress or lack thereof
• To provide the clinician with a sense of when to make therapy more/less difficult, i.e., a direction

Question 2

Data collection is ?

Answer 2

Excellent record-keeping does not guarantee good care, but poor record-keeping is an obstacle to clinical excellence

Question 3

What is a horizontal system?

Answer 3

NNYYYNYYYY
+/- o/check mark

basic

Question 4

What is a vertical system?

Answer 4

1. NNY 2. NY
2. Y 4. Y
3. NY 6. Y
4. Y 8. Y
5. NY 10. Y

• You can find an ave how many tries it takes them to say /s/
  Summary: 60% on first trial, 30% on 2nd, and
  10% on 3rd

Question 5

What do you take data on?

Answer 5

-Based on your objective almost solely

Question 6

Therefore, your objective must be:

Answer 6

specific
observable
measurable
-it is more than just yes/no or o/-

Question 7

Recreate the hierarchy

Answer 7

check sketchbook

Question 8

In child language what should you gather data specifically on?

Answer 8

Receptive or expressive

• # s of words/ morphemes per utterance
• concrete vs. abstract
• topic maintenance
• eye contact

Question 9

on a line graph how would you achieve your goal using a hierarchy?

Answer 9

Area/skill (prompting, time)

Baseline Goal

Question 10

What does knowing your baseline help you make a good goal?

Answer 10

ex. clients baseline is 40% vs 10% vs 90%
BUT to get to a goal of 95% you need to know how much work (prompting) it will take to go from baseline to a goal —based on the learning curve

Question 11

What is in between the baseline and goal?

Answer 11

prompting and time

Question 12

What is a prompt?

Answer 12

something you do to get your client to do something

speech/language task vs. behavior

Question 13

What are Fluency data systems ?

Answer 13

• number of repetitions, blocks, hesitations, and/or prolongations
  
  • # of stutterers per minute
  • # of stuttererers per sound/phoneme
  • # of stutterers per word

Question 14

You need to develop your own system, how?

Answer 14

Code your descriptive data collection so you are specific in your analysis!
ex.
SC = client self-corrected
R1= one stimulus repetition

Question 15

Data requires analysis is must be _____ and _____

Answer 15

accurate and detailed

you must also analyze what the data means

Question 16

Write a goal for Justin if this is his baseline: Justin will request an object given a verbal model, a visual prompt, and a turn-taking activity with 70% accuracy

Answer 16

So, because his baseline is already 70% you don’t want to increase the goal but change the amount of prompting.

Goal: Justin will request an object given an initial teaching period, visual prompt, and a turn-taking activity with 70% accuracy

note we changed “an initial teaching period”