Prosody Errors

Errors of speech including intonation (inflection errors in statements/questions), stress pattern (uneven stress), loudness variations (too loud or quiet), pausing (inappropriate pauses or no pausing at all), and rhythm (uneven cadence).

• What belongs in this group? Jokes 1

• Janene will vary prosodic factors such as his intonation (pitch), volume, rhythm, and stress when given clinician models and fading supports toward independent spontaneous production, first in imitative, in imitative, then spontaneous words, phrases, and sentences moving on to expanded sentence levels, brief and longer monologues, and conversation when ready, with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to improve prosody. 3