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. 2019 Apr 4;28(2):550–568. doi: 10.1044/2018_AJSLP-18-0192
Connected speech feature 0 1 2 3 4
Anomia not present mild moderate marked severe
Abandoned utterances not present mild moderate marked severe
Empty speech not present mild moderate marked severe
Semantic paraphasias not present mild moderate marked severe
Phonemic paraphasias not present mild moderate marked severe
Neologisms not present mild moderate marked severe
Jargon not present mild moderate marked severe
Perseverations not present mild moderate marked severe
Stereotypies and automatisms not present mild moderate marked severe
Short and simplified utterances not present mild moderate marked severe
Omission of bound morphemes not present mild moderate marked severe
Omission of function words not present mild moderate marked severe
Paragrammatism not present mild moderate marked severe
Pauses between utterances not present mild moderate marked severe
Pauses within utterances not present mild moderate marked severe
Halting and effortful speech production not present mild moderate marked severe
Reduced speech rate not present mild moderate marked severe
Retracing not present mild moderate marked severe
False starts not present mild moderate marked severe
Conduite d'approche not present mild moderate marked severe
Target unclear not present mild moderate marked severe
Meaning unclear not present mild moderate marked severe
Off-topic not present mild moderate marked severe
Expressive aphasia not present mild moderate marked severe
Apraxia of speech not present mild moderate marked severe
Dysarthria not present mild moderate marked severe
Overall communication impairment not present mild moderate marked severe