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Please Note: Training in CAS assessment should be done prior to giving a diagnosis of CAS. According to ASHA, Speech Language Pathologists with this training are the professionals that should give a diagnosis of CAS. CAS is NOT a medical diagnosis, it is a speech term.

Table of Contents

• Terms of Use
• Definitions of Features: CAS & Dysarthria
• Dysarthria-Only Characteristics
• Definitions of Terms
• Cueing Resource
• Assessment Checklist
• Case History
• Early Signs Checklist
• Sound Inventory Form
• Speech Understandability Rating Form
• Core Word and Power Word List
• Informal Motor Speech Assessment - Example
• Informal Motor Speech Assessment
• CAS Decision Guide - Example
• CAS Decision Guide

Adapted from Overby, M.S., Caspari, S.S., & Schreiber, J. (2019). Volubility, consonant emergence, and syllabic structure in infants and toddlers later diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech, speech sound disorder, and typical development: A retrospective video analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-18-0046

A diagnostic marker to discriminate childhood apraxia of speech from Speech Delay "Diagnosis of CAS was confirmed using a version of the pediatric adaptation of the Mayo Clinic assessment for motor speech disorders (‘‘Mayo10’’) (Shriberg and Strand, 2014; Shriberg, Potter, & Strand, 2011; Shriberg, Lohmeier