Sample Hierarchy for Motor Speech Examination
from Strand, E. A. & McCauley, R. J. (1999). Assessment procedures for treatment planning in children with phonologic and motor speech disorders. In Clinical Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children. Edited by A. Caruso and E. Strand. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York.
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Utterance Type |
Example |
| A. Connected speech samples
1. Conversation 2. Picture description 3. Narrative |
Question/answer Picture with action happening "Tell me the story of 'The Lion King'" |
| B. Diadochokinesis
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Tell me: /pa/ (5-10 times), slowly; naturally;
as fast as you can.
Tell me: /ta/ (5-10 times), slowly; naturally; as fast as you can. Tell me /ka/ (5-10 times), slowly; naturally; as fast as you can. Tell me /pa, ta, ka/ 5 times, slowly, naturally; as fast as you can. |
| C. Imitative utterances
1. Vowels in isolation 2. CV and VC (using various vowels) 3. CVC (using various vowels) a. First and last phoneme the same b. First and last phoneme different 4. Words of increasing length
5. Multisyllabic word repetition 6. Phrase repetition 7. Repetition of sentences of increasing length |
/o/, /e/, /aI/ me, my, hi, up, on
mom, pop, cake hit, cup, ball come, compute, computer base, baseball, baseball player refrigerator, alligator I want, me too, my turn I want more I want more milk I want more milk please __________________________________________ popcorn eat popcorn I eat popcorn I eat hot popcorn. |