I. Foundations and Professional Practice (1/3, approximately 44 questions):
A. Foundations:
- Typical development and performance across the lifespan.
- Factors that influence communication, feeding, and swallowing.
- Epidemiology and characteristics of common communication and swallowing disorders.
B. Professional Practice:
- Wellness and prevention.
- Culturally and linguistically appropriate service delivery.
- Counseling, collaboration, and teaming.
- Documentation.
- Ethics.
- Legislation and client advocacy.
- Research methodology and evidence-based practice.
II. Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis (1/3, approximately 44 questions).
A. Screening:
- Communication disorders.
- Feeding and swallowing disorders.
B. Approaches to Assessment and Evaluation:
- Developing case histories.
- Selecting appropriate assessment instruments, procedures, and materials.
- Assessing factors that influence communication and swallowing disorders.
- Assessment of anatomy and physiology.
C. Assessment Procedures and Assessment:
- Speech sound production.
- Fluency.
- Voice, resonance, and motor speech.
- Receptive and expressive language.
- Social aspects of communication, including pragmatics.
- Cognitive aspects of communication.
- Augmentative and alternative communication.
- Hearing.
- Feeding and swallowing.
D. Etiology:
- Genetic.
- Developmental.
- Disease process.
- Auditory problems.
- Neurological
- Structural and functional.
- Psychogenic.
III. Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment (1/3, approximately 44 questions).
A. Treatment Planning:
- Evaluating factors that can affect treatment.
- Initiating and prioritizing treatment and developing goals.
- Determining appropriate treatment details.
- Generating a prognosis.
- Communicating recommendations.
- General treatment principles and procedures.
B. Treatment Evaluation:
- Establishing methods for monitoring treatment progress and outcomes to evaluate assessment and/or treatment plans.
- Follow-up on post-treatment referrals and recommendations.
C. Treatment:
- Speech sound production.
- Fluency.
- Voice, resonance, and motor speech.
- Receptive and expressive language.
- Social aspects of communication, including pragmatics.
- Communication impairments related to cognition.
- Treatment involving augmentative and alternative communication.
- Hearing and aural rehabilitation.
- Swallowing and feeding.