HS833 Definitions

Question 1

Diadochokinetic (DDK) skills

Answer 1

Speech motor skills rather than oral motor skills

Question 2

Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD)

Answer 2

Difficulty in making and coordinating the precise movements required for the production of clear speech (motor planning errors)
Also known as Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS - international term)

Question 3

Malapropism

Answer 3

The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one e.g. dance a flamingo instead of flamenco

Question 4

Transpositional errors

Answer 4

e.g. “puks” for “cups” - order errors in which subjects recall an item in the wrong position

Question 5

Aetiology

Answer 5

Cause of a disease/condition.

Question 6

Spoonerism

Answer 6

A verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words e.g. you have hissed the lecture.
Related to motor planning.