Apraxia of Speech is a motor disorder resulting from neurological damage. It is characterized by inability to produce volitional movements for speech despite normal muscle tone and coordination.
Noticeable features with verbal apraxia of speech:
- Misarticulations increase with complexity of speech tasks
- Misarticulations occur with consonants and vowels
- Initial sounds are more affected
- Grouping behaviors are often observed
- Language decline is often observed
Verbal Apraxia Screener
Automatic Speech
- Name the Days of the Week: Errors_________________________________
- Name the Months of the Year: Errors_______________________________
- Count to 50:Errors______________________________________________
Spontaneous Speech
- Talk about a favorite hobby or vacation: Errors________________________
Oral Reading
- Read Rainbow Passage(end of document)
Scoring: Examine for the following common errors of Verbal Apraxia
_____Phonemic Errors: anticipatory-preservatory-transposition-voicing-vowel
_____Visible or audible searching
_____Inconsistent errors
_____Less automatic speech errors
_____Initiating difficulty
_____Abnormal prosodic features
_____Awareness of Errors
_____Receptive/expressive language is decline
Rainbow Passage
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long, rough arch, with its path high above, its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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