Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
First Advisor
Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann
Date of Publication
1-1-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Department
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Language
English
Subjects
Speech disorders in children -- Diagnosis, Communication disorders -- Diagnosis, Articulation disorders in children
DOI
10.15760/etd.362
Physical Description
1 online resource (iv, 59 p.)
Abstract
Speech-language pathologists are constantly trying to use the most efficient and effective assessments to obtain information about the phonetic inventory, speech sound errors, and phonological error patterns of children who are suspected of having a speech sound disorder. These assessments may involve a standardized measure of single words and/or sentences and a non standardized measure, such as a spontaneous speech sample. While research has shown both of these types of assessments to give clinicians information about a child's speech production abilities, the use of delayed imitation tasks, either words or sentences, has not been a widely studied topic and has produced conflicting results when researched. The purpose of the present study was to examine speech sound production abilities in children with a speech sound disorder in a single-word task, an imitated sentence task, and spontaneous speech sample to compare their results of speech sound errors, phonological error patterns, and time administration. The study used the Phonological and Articulatory Bilingual Assessment - English version (PABA-E, Gildersleeve-Neumann , 2008), a formal assessment for identifying children who may have a speech sound disorder. Three male children, between the ages of 4;0 and 5;4 (years;months), participated in this study. All participants were being treated by a speech-language pathologist for a diagnosed speech sound disorder and had hearing within normal limits. The results of the study showed that the majority of participants produced the highest number of speech sounds targeted within the imitated sentence task. Participants attempted and produced the least amount of speech sounds on their spontaneous speech sample. The assessment with the highest percentage of accurately produced consonants was the imitated sentence task. The majority of participants produced a higher number of error patterns in their single-word and imitated sentence task. In terms of efficiency and effectiveness, the imitated sentence task took the least amount of time to administer and transcribe.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/4882
Recommended Citation
Snyder, Emily Katherine, "A Comparison of Single Word Identification, Connected Speech Samples, and Imitated Sentence Tasks for Assessment of Children with a SSD" (2010). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 362.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.362
Comments
Portland State University. Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sciences