Diagnostics
SSD
Speech! What is a Speech Sound Disorder?
Developmental Language Disorder
Language. A language disorder diagnosis that is NOT connected with a co-existing condition, like ASD, IDD, TBI, hearing impairment.
Support for increases in conversational turn-taking with conversation partners.
Language. What is a Pragmatic Language Disorder?
MLU
Language - What is Mean Length of Utterance?
Irregular verbs, spoken and written.
Language. Spoken and Written Language Disorder
Always conducted by an SLP prior to a speech OR language assessment.
Speech AND Language. What is a hearing screening?
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Speech. What is a developmental neurological SSD that affects motor planning for speech.
Increasing accurate production of /k/ in the initial position of words. Child consistently substituted /t/ for /k/ before therapy began.
Speech. What is an Articulation Disorder?
Intelligibility
Speech. How easy it is to understand a person's speech.
Phonological Disorder
Language Disorder resulting in a SSD. What is a language disorder that results in sound errors in words due to a difficulty that the child is having in organizing sounds in their brain?
Increase consistent production of multisyllabic words. Inconsistent production of multisyllabic words and words with /r/ sounds before starting therapy.
Speech. What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?
Stimulability
Speech. How responsive is the individual to cues and prompts provided by the clinician to support production of speech sounds. May indicate sounds that will improve quickly.
Articulation Disorder
Speech. What is a motor-based (physically-based) speech sound disorder?
Increase mean length of utterance.
Language. What is a Language Disorder in which a child's use of morphemes (smallest units of language that have meaning) and syntax (word order) are addressed in therapy?