Jamilette Duran, a twenty-five year-three month old female, attends Lehman College Speech and Hearing Clinic for individual speech-language services twice weekly for 50 minutes. She has been attending the Speech and Hearing Clinic since 1998. At six months of age, she was diagnosed with Intellectual Developmental Disability (IDD) and Cerebral Palsy (CP). Jamilette has a diagnosis of an articulation disorder, receptive and expressive language disorder secondary to IDD and CP. Josefina Duran, Jamilette’s mother, expressed concerns regarding Jamilette’s difficulties expressing her thoughts, and difficulties composing complete thoughts.
Jamilette Duran was born on November 4, 1989 following an eventful delivery. As reported by her sister, Melissa …show more content…
They find a place. They have tent. They looking. They have wood. They sing.”
Informal assessment through conversation and speech samples revealed slurred speech and imprecise consonant productions and the following articulation errors: “sometime” for sometimes, “kid” for “kids” (final consonant deletion), “wid” for “with” (stopping), and “fee” for “free” (consonant cluster reduction).
Jamilette read 11/20 words correctly from the Pre-K Dolch Sight wordlist (i.e. and, a, can, make, me, not, run, I, jump, go, little); she identified 25/26 uppercase and lowercase letters correctly, 18/25 consonant sounds correctly, and was able to identify the long vowel sounds but not the short sounds from the Scholastic red-CORE Phonics Survey.
A full oral-peripheral examination was not administered. An informal assessment was conducted to assess the structure and functioning of her articulators and adequacy for speech. Jamilette’s facial structures were asymmetrical at rest and she presented slight drooping of the right side of her face. She exhibited: reduced labial range of motion, reduced lingual range and speed of motion, reduced lingual strength, and a slight
Jamilette Duran was born on November 4, 1989 following an eventful delivery. As reported by her sister, Melissa …show more content…
They find a place. They have tent. They looking. They have wood. They sing.”
Informal assessment through conversation and speech samples revealed slurred speech and imprecise consonant productions and the following articulation errors: “sometime” for sometimes, “kid” for “kids” (final consonant deletion), “wid” for “with” (stopping), and “fee” for “free” (consonant cluster reduction).
Jamilette read 11/20 words correctly from the Pre-K Dolch Sight wordlist (i.e. and, a, can, make, me, not, run, I, jump, go, little); she identified 25/26 uppercase and lowercase letters correctly, 18/25 consonant sounds correctly, and was able to identify the long vowel sounds but not the short sounds from the Scholastic red-CORE Phonics Survey.
A full oral-peripheral examination was not administered. An informal assessment was conducted to assess the structure and functioning of her articulators and adequacy for speech. Jamilette’s facial structures were asymmetrical at rest and she presented slight drooping of the right side of her face. She exhibited: reduced labial range of motion, reduced lingual range and speed of motion, reduced lingual strength, and a slight