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A Motor Speech Assessment for Children With Severe Speech Disorders: Reliability and Validity Evidence.

Purpose: In this article, the authors report reliability and validity evidence for the Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill (DEMSS), a new test that uses dynamic assessment to aid in the differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Method: Participants were 81 children between 36...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 505 - 521
Main Authors: Strand, Edythe A., McCauley, Rebecca J., Weigand, Stephen D., Stoeckel, Ruth E., Baas, Becky S., Kreiman, Jody, Liss, Julie
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Apr2013
Subjects:
Children
Apraxia
Speech disorder diagnosis
Cluster analysis (Statistics)
Confidence intervals
Differential diagnosis
Research methodology
Research funding
Speech evaluation
Logistic regression analysis
Research methodology evaluation
Descriptive statistics
Diagnosis
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