Table 1.
Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skills (DEMSS) Content Coverage
| Utterance type (examples) | No. of utterances | Overall articulatory accuracy | Vowel accuracy | Prosodic accuracy | Consistency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CV (me, hi) | 8 | 8 (0–32) | 8 (0–16) | - | 4 (0–4) |
| VC (up, eat) | 8 | 8 (0–32) | 8 (0–16) | - | 4 (0–4) |
| Reduplicated Syllables (mama, booboo) | 4 | 4 (0–16) | - | 4 (0–4) | - |
| CVC1 (mom, peep, pop) | 6 | 6 (0–24) | 6 (0–12) | - | 6 (0–6) |
| CVC2 (mad, bed, hop) | 8 | 8 (0–32) | 8 (0–16) | - | 8 (0–8) |
| Bisyllabic 1 (baby, puppy) | 5 | 5 (0–20) | 5 (0–10) | 5 (0–5) | - |
| Bisyllabic 2 (bunny, happy) | 6 | 6 (0–24) | - | 6 (0–6) | - |
| Multisyllabic (banana, kangaroo) | 6 | 6 (0–24) | 6 (0–12) | 6 (0–6) | 6 (0–6) |
| Utterances of increasing length (dad, hi dad, hi daddy) | 15 | 15 (0–60) | 15 (0–30) | - | - |
| Total utterances | 66 | 66 | 56 | 21 | 28 |