Description
Ages: 12 years to adult normed to 97, Testing Time: 20 minutes, Administration: Individual
FDA-2 includes new powerful knowledge about motor speech disorders and their contribution to neurological diagnosis. This updated edition remains a well-established test for the measurement, differential description, and diagnosis of dysarthria. It can be used in research, as well as all clinical settings. The client is rated on a number of simple performance tasks related to speech function. It is divided into eight sections:
- Reflexes – Ratings for cough, swallow, and dribble/drool
- Respiration – Ratings at rest and in speech
- Lips – Ratings for at rest, spread, seal, alternate, and in speech
- Palate – Ratings for fluids, maintenance, and in speech
- Laryngeal – Ratings for time, pitch, volume, and in speech
- Tongue – Ratings for at rest, protrusion, elevation, lateral, alternate, an in speech
- Intelligibility – Ratings for words, sentences, and conversation
- Influencing Factors – Includes hearing, sight, teeth, language, mood, posture, rate (words per minute), and sensation
