Language comprehension

Map Branches

• adult designs
  • Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment
    • Enderby
  • Robertson Dysarthria Profile
  • disadvantages
    • possibly difficult to administer
      • affected by:
        • cognition
        • Attention
        • Language comprehension
      • age
        • important factor
        • Frenchay
          • 12yrs-adult
  • uses?
    • Screening
    • Outcomes
    • Track progress
    • Objective data
• Scales
  • Mathy 2000
    • Adult
    • Research orientated
  • Pennington and McConachie 2001
    • Best for PAEDS
    • Comm.  approach
• quick & dirty!
  • apraxia profile
    • Hickman 1997
  • advantages
    • differential diagnosis
      • useful screening tool
  • Disadvantages
    • "ragbag"
      • rationale
  • Format
    • versions x2
      • preschool
      • School age
    • oral movements
      • automatic
      • Volitional
        • nonverbal
        • Verbal
          • levels
            • sounds
            • Word
            • phrases
            • Spontaneous speech
• intelligibility
  • Children's Speech Intelligibility Measure
    • Wilcox and Morris 1997
  • advantages
    • intelligibility
      • contrast
        • Familiar listener
        • Unfamiliar listeners
    • Outcome
      • children c. functional
  • Disadvantages
    • 
      • audiotape only
        • comprehensibility 
    • expressive output
      • single words
      • connected speech
  • Format
    • adaptation:
      • adult:
    • aim
      • objective intelligibility
        • single word
• systematic paediatric Ax
  • VMPAC
    • format
      • Speech characteristics
      • Connected speech and language control
      • Sequencing
      • Focal or remote control
      • global motor control
    • Disadvantages
      • cooperation
        • Attention
        • Language ability
        • cognitive ability
      • length
        • motivation
      • subjectivity
        • scoring
          • some items
      • American norms
    • advantages
      • Scoring
        • Training
        • clear
      • systematic
      • standardised
      • age range
        • 3-12yrs
  • DEAP
    • Dodd 2002
      • format
        • 4 subtests
          • OM ax 1/4
            • movements:
              • Diadochokinetic
              • sequenced
              • isolated
      • Disadvantages
        • subjective
        • OM ax
          • mouth focused
        • age 3;11-6;11yrs
          • limited
      • advantages
        • age 3;11-6;11yrs
        • Extensive norms
        • screening tool

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