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Ultrasound Images of the Tongue: A Tutorial for Assessment and Remediation of Speech Sound Errors
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2017
Ultrasound imaging can be used to display the shape and movements of the tongue in real time during speech. The images can be used to determine the nature of speech sound errors. Visual feedback of the tongue can be used to facilitate improvements in speech sound production in clinical populations.
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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
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2015
Children who have complex communication needs can benefit from the use of a speech-generating device (SGD). Cognitive skills were identified as having an impact on the ability to navigate between levels of SGDs. This protocol describes the steps needed for Speech-language Pathologists to assess cognitive skills and navigational abilities.
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A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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2011
Objective assessments of the physiological mechanisms that support speech are needed to monitor disease onset and progression in persons with ALS and to quantify treatment effects in clinical trials. In this video, we present a comprehensive, instrumentation-based protocol for quantifying speech motor performance in clinical populations.
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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
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2019
This paper introduces a method for assessing the coherence of parents' short narratives regarding their child and their relationship using the five-minute speech sample procedure.
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Assessing Working Memory in Children: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children – Working Memory (CABC-WM)
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2017
Working memory predicts a significant amount of variance for a variety of cognitive tasks, including speaking, reading, and writing. However, few tools are available to assess working memory in children. We present an innovative, computer-based battery that comprehensively assesses different components of working memory in school-age children.
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Each task places different demands on spoken communication. Repeating sounds or words can highlight articulation patterns, while picture naming examines spoken responses to visual prompts. Reading aloud adds a standardized language context, and connected speech shows how articulation, fluency, voice, rate, prosody, and intelligibility operate together during more natural communication.
Connected speech provides information that isolated sounds, words, or reading tasks may not show. It allows observation of how several speech characteristics function together across an extended sample, including fluency, rate, prosody, voice, articulation, and intelligibility. This broader view can help characterize everyday communication patterns rather than focusing on one response at a time.
Observation should address more than whether individual sounds are produced correctly. Relevant features include fluency, voice quality, speaking rate, prosody, articulation, and intelligibility. Considering these dimensions together helps describe the person’s communication pattern more precisely and supports comparisons across tasks or across assessment points when communication changes are being monitored.
A typical evaluation combines direct observation with structured speaking tasks. The person may repeat selected sounds or words, name pictures, read aloud, and produce connected speech. Across these activities, the evaluator examines speech characteristics such as articulation, fluency, voice, rate, prosody, and intelligibility, creating a profile rather than relying on a single task.
Findings can characterize functional communication concerns and show which aspects of spoken communication require attention. In clinical settings, this information supports decision-making by documenting observed patterns and providing a basis for comparison over time. The results may also help relate communication characteristics to developmental, neurological, or psychological conditions without treating one speech feature as a complete explanation.
In psychology, these assessments provide structured observations for studying how neurological, developmental, or psychological conditions affect spoken communication. Researchers can examine task-specific performance, broader connected-speech patterns, and changes across repeated assessments. The resulting information supports research on communication, language, and cognition while also helping describe functional outcomes in a consistent way.