SPHY205 Assessment3: Intervention Plan – Medical Sciences Assignment Help
Assessment of AOS
The four essential parts of a motor speech examination apply to AOS:
- History
- Examination of the oral mechanism (OMA)
- Perceptual assessment of speech characteristics
- Assessment of intelligibility, comprehensibility, efficiency
Assessment of speech motor planning
Observing speech production under differential planning demands
- Tasks where planning demands are lighter = easier (in theory)
- Task where planning demands are heavier = more difficult (in theory)
Tasks
- AMRs / SMRs
- Repetition of words of increasing length
- Repetition of phrases and sentences
- Count 1-20
- Count 20-1
- Recite days of week
- Sing a familiar song, e.g. “Happy Birthday”
- Phrase/Sentence completion, e.g. “bacon and …”