Standardized NR Speech Assessment

Question 1

standardized/NR assessments in SSD

Answer 1

should never be used as the sole eligibility criteria for our clients

Question 2

various data points should be considered in standardized/NR assessments in SSD

Answer 2

• intelligibility
• stimulability
• social-emotional-education impact
• oral mech
• dynamic motor assessment
• phonetic inventory
• perception/discrimination skills
• case history/parent interview

Question 3

advantages of standardized/NR assessments in SSD

Answer 3

• provides context
• provide standard scores
• contain most of the consonants/clusters in a language in the initial, medial, and final position of words

Question 4

how to elicit single words

Answer 4

1. ask, “what’s this?”
2. provide a cue (e.g., It has wings and flies. It’s a…)
3. provide a binary choice with target word first (“Is it a bird or a house?”)
4. provide delayed imitation

Question 5

provide a binary choice with target word first

Answer 5

distractor shouldn’t be similar to the target word in meaning or in phonetic structure

Question 6

provide delayed imitation

Answer 6

• “It’s a bird. What is it?”
• add a phrase after the production of the target word so the child is not repeating the last word heard
• if possible, after the word is elicited via delayed imitation, try to elicit it again spontaneously by asking
• “What’s this again?”

Question 7

raw score

Answer 7

• typically the number of how many sounds the child incorrectly
• needs to be converted into other metrics for interpretation

Question 8

standard score

Answer 8

• measure of child’s performance compared to norm-referenced peers
• 100 indicates average performance “the mean”
• convert raw score using manual

Question 9

standard deviation

Answer 9

• a measure of variance: distance from the mean
• standard deviation = 15, therefore 85-115 = WNL

Question 10

confidence interval

Answer 10

range of scores that you can be 90%-95% confident contains the child’s “true” score

Question 11

percentile rank

Answer 11

• can be used to compare where the test-taker fell compared to age and/or sex-matched peers
• on most speech and language tests, the 50th percentile indicates average performance
• 90th percentile: Jill scored the same or better than 90% of other kids who completed this same ax.

Question 12

age equivalent

Answer 12

• based on the average of performance for a given age group
• don’t account for the range of normal (best to avoid these)