Hi Everyone,
My previous posts have been mostly directed towards our younger populations so with this post I thought I would target some of our older patients who read. In this post I'm going to discuss "The Caterpillar" passage and its utility in examining motor speech performance. "The Caterpillar" passage was designed to provide a contemporary, easily read, contextual speech sample with specific tasks (e.g., prosodic contrasts, words of increasing length and complexity targeted to inform the assessment of motor speech disorder). Another common reading passage that is used is "My Grandfather", however it is not particularly well suited for examining speech motor skills that differentiate among motor speech disorders. In addition to utilizing the passage to assess motor speech disorders I have used it with fluency and literacy evaluations; in addition to assessing inflection. Has anyone found research or benefits in using these reading passages for other tasks as well? If so how? I have attached a journal article comparing both reading passages and their benefits below. In the article you can also find both reading passages in the appendix section if you wish to utilize it in therapy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2mXnf4_eYIpMXlsMDA2b2xkTHc/view?usp=sharing
This is awesome! Can we have a reference made up for this article and reference it when we use the Caterpillar Reading Passage for informal assessments? Maybe add the passage with the reference to the Testing file.
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