| 1 | AOS - primary distinguishing featuresa (no overlap with dysarthria or aphasia). One or more must be present for diagnosis of AOS. | Score (0–4) |
| 1.1 | Distorted sound substitutions | |
| 1.2 | Distorted sound additions (not including intrusive schwa) | |
| 1.3 | Increased sound distortions or distorted sound substitutions with increased utterance length or increased syllable/word articulatory complexity | |
| 1.4 | Increased sound distortions or distorted sound substitutions with increased speech rate | |
| 1.5 | Inaccurate (off-target in place or manner) speech AMR’s (alternating motion rates, as in rapid repetition of “puhpuhpuh”) | |
| 1.6 | Reduced words per breath group relative to maximum vowel duration | |
| 2 | Distinguishing features unless dysarthria presentb | Score (0–4) |
| 2.1 | Syllable segmentation within words > 1 syllable | |
| 2.2 | Syllable segmentation across words in phrases/sentences | |
| 2.3 | Sound distortions | |
| 2.4 | Slow overall speech rate | |
| 2.5 | Lengthened vowel &/or consonant segments | |
| 2.6 | Lengthened intersegment durations (between sounds, syllables, words, or phrases; possibly filled, including intrusive schwa) | |
| 3 | Distinguishing features unless aphasia presentc | Score (0–4) |
| 3.1 | Deliberate, slowly sequenced, segmented,&/or distorted (including distorted substitutions) speech SMRs in comparison to speech AMRs | |
| 3.2 | Audible or visible articulatory groping; speech initiation difficulty; false starts/restarts | |
| 4 | Distinguishing features unless dysarthria &/or aphasia presentd | Score (0–4) |
| 4.1 | Sound or syllable repetitions | |
| 4.2 | Sound prolongations (beyond lengthened segments) |