TY - JOUR
T1 - A diagnostic marker to discriminate childhood apraxia of speech from speech delay
T2 - I. development and description of the pause marker
AU - Shriberg, Lawrence D.
AU - Strand, Edythe A.
AU - Fourakis, Marios
AU - Jakielski, Kathy J.
AU - Hall, Sheryl D.
AU - Karlsson, Heather B.
AU - Mabie, Heather L.
AU - McSweeny, Jane L.
AU - Tilkens, Christie M.
AU - Wilson, David L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant DC000496, awarded to Lawrence D. Shriberg, and by a core grant, National Institute of Child Health and Development Grant HD03352, to the Waisman Center. The sixth and ninth authors made the original and substantial continuing contributions that led to the development of the Pause Marker. We are grateful to the following colleagues and collaborators for their significant contributions to this research: Len Abbeduto, Nancy Alarcon, Becky Baas, Adriane Baylis, Richard Boada, Roger Brown, Stephen Camarata, Thomas Campbell, Richard Folsom, Lisa Freebairn, Jordan Green, Barbara Lewis, Christopher Moore, Katherine Odell, Bruce Pennington, Nancy Potter, Jonathan Preston, Erin Redle, Heather Leavy Rusiewicz, Alison Scheer-Cohen, Kristie Spencer, Ruth Stoeckel, Bruce Tomblin, Jennifer Vannest, and Emily White. We also thank the many participants, parents of participants, and research colleagues who have contributed insights into the needs and issues in diagnostic research in childhood apraxia of speech.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - Purpose: The goal of this article (PM I) is to describe the rationale for and development of the Pause Marker (PM), a single-sign diagnostic marker proposed to discriminate early or persistent childhood apraxia of speech from speech delay. Method: The authors describe and prioritize 7 criteria with which to evaluate the research and clinical utility of a diagnostic marker for childhood apraxia of speech, including evaluation of the present proposal. An overview is given of the Speech Disorders Classification System, including extensions completed in the same approximately 3-year period in which the PM was developed. Results: The finalized Speech Disorders Classification System includes a nosology and cross-classification procedures for childhood and persistent speech disorders and motor speech disorders (Shriberg, Strand, & Mabie, 2017). A PM is developed that provides procedural and scoring information, and citations to papers and technical reports that include audio exemplars of the PM and reference data used to standardize PM scores are provided. Conclusions: The PM described here is an acoustic-aided perceptual sign that quantifies one aspect of speech precision in the linguistic domain of phrasing. This diagnostic marker can be used to discriminate early or persistent childhood apraxia of speech from speech delay.
AB - Purpose: The goal of this article (PM I) is to describe the rationale for and development of the Pause Marker (PM), a single-sign diagnostic marker proposed to discriminate early or persistent childhood apraxia of speech from speech delay. Method: The authors describe and prioritize 7 criteria with which to evaluate the research and clinical utility of a diagnostic marker for childhood apraxia of speech, including evaluation of the present proposal. An overview is given of the Speech Disorders Classification System, including extensions completed in the same approximately 3-year period in which the PM was developed. Results: The finalized Speech Disorders Classification System includes a nosology and cross-classification procedures for childhood and persistent speech disorders and motor speech disorders (Shriberg, Strand, & Mabie, 2017). A PM is developed that provides procedural and scoring information, and citations to papers and technical reports that include audio exemplars of the PM and reference data used to standardize PM scores are provided. Conclusions: The PM described here is an acoustic-aided perceptual sign that quantifies one aspect of speech precision in the linguistic domain of phrasing. This diagnostic marker can be used to discriminate early or persistent childhood apraxia of speech from speech delay.
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U2 - 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-15-0296
DO - 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-15-0296
M3 - Article
C2 - 28384779
AN - SCOPUS:85017524321
SN - 1092-4388
VL - 60
SP - S1096-S1117
JO - Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
JF - Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
IS - 4
ER -