Lets talk about the components of an assessment

1. Case history

2. Oral motor speech examination also known as an some

3. Diadochokinetic task

4. Speech sample

5. Formal or informal assessment

Assessments that can be used on children for childhood apraxia of speech:

1. The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children (KSPT),

2. The Apraxia Profile

3. The Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children (VMPAC) (Kumin, n.d.).

To test for the presence of Apraxia of speech in adults, one could use tests such as:

1. The Apraxia Battery for Adults-Second (ABA-2) (Dabul, 2000)

1. Test of Oral and Limb Apraxia

2. Quick Assessment of Apraxia of Speech

To test for the presence of Dysarthria other formal assessments can be used such as the:

1. Sentence intelligibility test (SIT)

2. A word intelligibility test

3. Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment (FDA)

4. Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (AIDS)