Use Children's Speech Intelligibility Measure (CSIM) to establish baseline information about intelligibility and to monitor progress during the course of articulation/phonological treatment. Administration and scoring take just 20 minutes.
CSIM can be used with any child whose speech is unintelligible, including children who have phonological disorders, hearing loss, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, or with children who have no diagnosed disorder, yet their speech is difficult to understand.
With 200 versions of the Stimulus List provided in the manual, you can test a child frequently using a different word list each time. The results enable you to monitor the effects of therapeutic intervention and alter the therapy plan as needed to facilitate progress.
To administer CSIM, the examiner models a total of 50 words, and the child repeats each one for tape recording. There are a total of 600 words that have been catagorised into 50 sets of 12 phonetically similar words. One word from each of the 50 sets is used by the examiner for each administration.
Following administration, a second individual who is not familiar with the child's speech errors or patterns acts as a judge. The judge listens to the child's tape and identifies from a list of 12 choices the word he or she believes the child produced. The 50 sets of 12 phonetically similar words are provided to the judge so that each target word is on the list along with 11 phonetically similar foils. Therefore, the judge is blind to the target word. Intelligibility is determined by multiplying by two the number of times the judge correctly identifies the target.
Features A hand-switch box is included in the test kit. This enables the examiner to present a verbal model of the stimulus word without recording a model. The judge listens only to the child's speech.