Table 5.
Specificity information for the three participants with speech delay who were classified positive by the Pause Marker (PM+) compared with 202 participants classified negative by the PM (PM−).
| Participants |
CAS classification |
Demographics |
Speech competence |
PM |
SPMS |
PM classification |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | No. | SDCS | PM | Age (years) | Sex | PCC (%) | PVC (%) | Pause opportunities | Inappropriate Type I pauses | PM score (%) | Rate | Stress | Transcoding | PM description | PM classification |
| PM− (n = 202) | − | − | |||||||||||||
| M | 4.4 | 70.8% M/29.2% F | 72.3 | 92.6 | 96.3 | 1.0 | 99.0 | ||||||||
| SD | 1.1 | 11.5 | 5.1 | 32.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||||||||
| Range | 3–9 | 17.5–99.1 | 70.1–100.0 | 40.0–195.0 | 0.0–6.0 | 94.4–100.0 | |||||||||
| % positive | 23.9 | 16.9 | 34.7 | ||||||||||||
| PM+ (n = 3) | − | + | |||||||||||||
| 1 | − | + | 3 | M | 89.8 | 95.8 | 63 | 5 | 92.1 | + | + | * | PM+/SPMS+ | PM+ | |
| 2 | − | + | 5 | M | 81.9 | 95.3 | 48 | 6 | 87.5 | − | − | + | PM+/SPMS− | PM+ | |
| 3 | − | + | 6 | F | 87.0 | 95.1 | 137 | 6 | (95.6) | + | − | + | (PM)/SPMS+ | (PM+) | |
| M | 4.7 | 66.7% M/33.3% F | 86.3 | 95.4 | 82.7 | 5.7 | 91.7 | ||||||||
| SD | 1.5 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 47.6 | 0.6 | 4.1 | |||||||||
| Range | 3–6 | 81.9–89.8 | 95.1–95.8 | 48–137 | 5–6 | 87.5–95.6 | |||||||||
| % positive | 66.7 | 33.3 | 100.0 | ||||||||||||
Note. Table entries in parenthesis are termed “marginal” classifications. Due to the participants marginal status, no positive or negative description is assigned. An asterisk denotes missing data. CAS = childhood apraxia of speech; SPMS = supplemental PM signs; SDCS = Speech Disorders Classification System; PCC = percentage of consonants correct; PVC = percentage of vowels correct.