BASLP 4th Semester Notes  » Paper 1: Motor Speech Disorders in Children

Unit 2: Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders in Children

• Case history and developmental neurological evaluation – primitive postural and oropharyngeal reflexes, cranial nerve examination
• Assessment of oral sensory and motor capacity – Oral peripheral mechanism examination, neuro- muscular status
• Assessment of speech sub-systems – quantitative and qualitative
• Assessment of speech intelligibility and comprehensibility
• Assessment of associated problem
• Speech assessment with specific reference to childhood apraxia of speech – Phonetic and phonemic inventory, phonotactics and syllable sequencing, variability of errors, speech intelligibility, fluency and prosody
• Test materials – checklist for childhood apraxia of speech, screening test for developmental apraxia of speech
• Protocols for non-verbal and verbal praxis specific to Indian languages
• Differential diagnosis- dysarthria and other developmental disorders
• Differential diagnosis – childhood apraxia of speech and other developmental disorders