BASLP 3rd Semester Notes  » Paper 2: Speech Sound Disorders

Unit 2: Assessment of Speech Sound Disorders – I

• Current concepts in terminology and classification of speech sound disorders
  1. Organically-based speech sound disorders, childhood apraxia of speech.
  2. Speech sound disorders of unknown origin, classification by symptomatology.
• Factors related to speech sound disorders
  1. structure and function of speech & hearing and oro-sensory mechanisms.
  2. cognitive – linguistic, psychosocial and social factors.
  3. metalinguistic factors related to speech sound disorders.
• Introduction to assessment procedures: aims of assessment, screening and comprehensive assessment.
• Speech sound sampling procedures – issues related to single word and connected nspeech samples; imitation and spontaneous speech samples, contextual testing, recording of speech samples.
• Review of tests in English and other Indian languages – Single word articulation tests, deep articulation of articulation, and computerized tests of phonology.
• Influence of language and dialectal variations in assessment.
• Transcription of speech sample – transcription methods –IPA and extension of IPA; broad and narrow transcription.