Verbal Apraxia Screener for Adult Speech Therapy

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

1. Name the Days of the Week: Errors_________________________________
2. Name the Months of the Year: Errors_______________________________
3. Count to 50:Errors______________________________________________

Spontaneous Speech

1. Talk about a favorite hobby or vacation: Errors________________________

Oral Reading

1. 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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