Table 1.
Lists of signs of Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
| ASHA Consensus Signs (ASHA, 2007) | luzzini-Seigel et al. (2015) Signs | Shriberg et al. (2017) Signs | Fedorenko et al. (2015) Signs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lengthened and disrupted coarticulatory transitions | Groping | Groping | Silent groping |
| Difficulty sequencing phonemes and syllables | |||
| Voicing errors | Voicing errors | Voicing errors | |
| Increased difficulty with multisyllabic words | Increased difficulty with multisyllabic words | Increased errors with increased word length/complexity | |
| Difficulty achieving initial or transitionary movement gestures | Difficulty achieving initial or transitionary movement gestures | Difficulty achieving initial articulatory configurations | |
| Intrusive schwa | Intrusive schwa | Epenthesis/syllable repetition | |
| Phoneme/syllable repetition | |||
| Difficulty maintaining syllable integrity | |||
| Addition errors | |||
| Metathesis | |||
| Frequent phoneme omissions | |||
| Prolongations | |||
| Vowel error | Vowel distortions | Nonphonemic/distorted substitutions | |
| Consonant distortion | Distorted substitutions | Slowed/disrupted DDK sequences | |
| Nasality disturbance | Distorted substitutions Slow speech/DDK1 rate | ||
| Slow rate | |||
| Stress errors | Equal stress/lexical stress errors | Syllable segregation | |
| Inappropriate prosody | Syllable segregation | Syllable segregation | Equal stress/lexical stress errors |
| Altered suprasegmental features | |||
| Inconsistent errors | Same word/syllable different on repetition | ||
| Same C/V different across different words |
DDK: Diadochokinetic rate (syllables per unit time during the repetition of a syllable such as “pa”).