Which of the following is an example of a service delivery model?

Which of the following is an example of a service delivery model?

• A. Twice-weekly sessions should include 50 speech production practice trials.
• B. Schedule to receive two 10-minute sessions per week from the assistant in the classroom.
• C. Direct treatment due to a persistent atypical speech error.
• D. A phonetic approach will be used to target the child's lateral lisp on the phoneme /s/.

Answer: (B)

Service delivery model describes how services are provided—the setting, who delivers them, and how often. This option illustrates that by having sessions delivered in the classroom by a classroom assistant, two ten-minute sessions per week. It specifies the setting (in the classroom), the personnel (an assistant), and the schedule, which are the aspects that define how services are actually given in practice. The other choices describe aspects of therapy content or method rather than how services are delivered: one focuses on how many practice trials and the overall structure, another on whether treatment is direct, and another on the phonetic approach to a target sound. They don’t specify who provides the service or where it occurs, so they don’t exemplify a service delivery model.

Service delivery model describes how services are provided—the setting, who delivers them, and how often. This option illustrates that by having sessions delivered in the classroom by a classroom assistant, two ten-minute sessions per week. It specifies the setting (in the classroom), the personnel (an assistant), and the schedule, which are the aspects that define how services are actually given in practice.

The other choices describe aspects of therapy content or method rather than how services are delivered: one focuses on how many practice trials and the overall structure, another on whether treatment is direct, and another on the phonetic approach to a target sound. They don’t specify who provides the service or where it occurs, so they don’t exemplify a service delivery model.