Single-word Picture Naming Task

• 78 words (will get down to around 70)
• Cueing hierarchy:
  • Open question
  • Content-related prompt
  • Binary choice
  • Delayed imitation
  • Direct imitation

Oral Mechanism Screening

• Diadochokinesis(DDK) Rate:
  • Alternating Motion Rate (AMR): client repeats a syllable as fast and as long as possible (pʰa * n; tʰa * n; kʰa * n)
  • Sequential Motion Rate (SMR): client repeats a syllable sequence as fast and as long as possible
    • [pʰa tʰa kʰa] * n; [pʰu³⁵ tʰa͡ʊ³⁵] * n (grape); [ta⁵¹ pʰiŋ³⁵ kwo²¹⁴] * n (big apple)
• Single movement & Sequential movement
  • amplitude, accuracy, force of the movement
• Checklist
  • for respiration, intonation, speech rate, loudness, pitch, voice, resonance concerns.

Nonword/syllable repetition task

• 12 nonwords made up by /p, t, m, n/ and /a, u, i/
• Inspired by the syllable repetition task proposed by Shriberg et al. (2009)
• 2 to 4 syllables
• name of the imaginary characters