Moderate Verbal Dyspraxia

As Ayden Jane was getting closer to 3 our speech therapist gave her an evaluation which was about as detailed as Ayden Jane could handle. We figured, the school district person taking over would need a clear picture of AJ but it would take a long time before AJ would cooperate sooo... Here are her results on from 2 tests. (we tested articulation because of the poor clarity of her speech even though her vocabulary has grown by leaps and bounds)

Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation: Standard Score 66, Percentile 5 Honestly, not a shocker.

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test (KSPT): Therapist wrote - developed to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of verbal apraxia of speech. It is used to determine where the child's speech system is breaking down, and to help provide a systematic course of treatment.

Part 1 - Oral Movement. Ayden Jane scored a SS of 79 percentile of 6. Places her as mildly delayed. Considering we have not 'worked' any of this I am not too worried here.

Part 2 - Simple. Ability to produce sounds in isolation and simple word patterns. AJ scored a SS of 102 (woo hoo) percentile rank 58. This we have worked and it is obvious.

Part 3 - Complex. This evaluates the more complex word shapes. AJ scored a SS of 40 (yuck) percentile rank 2. Nicole did notice, however, that part of the poor score was that there were some sounds she was to use which she just does not yet have and she made the same mistakes (substitutions) repeatedly.

Part 4 - Spontaneous Length. This assesses the intelligibility. SS of 90, percentile rank 22. Nicole rated this using the information from part 3 somehow. I haven't had the chance to ask her about it yet, I am just reading off the report.

So to sum in all up: Based on the results of this testing, Ayden Jane is presenting with moderate Verbal Dyspraxia , which involves extensive replacements of sounds, length of utterance and complexity continue to result in motor-speech disintegration, inability to perform oral diadochokinesis, phonological processes are more consistent, and better productions of single words versus longer utterances.

In the end, it all means what I already know. Ayden Jane has a LOT to say, but cannot always get her mouth to cooperate.