Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children (KSPT)

Age: 2-0 through 5-11
Time: 5 to 15 minutes

The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children (KSPT) assists in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental apraxia (dyspraxia) of speech in preschool children.

The KSPT identifies the level of breakdown in a child’s ability to speak so that treatment can be established and improvement tracked. Easy to administer and score, the KSPT helps you measure a child’s imitative responses to the clinician, locates where the child’s speech system is breaking down, and points to a systematic course of treatment.

Results of the KSPT are useful beyond establishing an initial diagnosis - KSPT results can be used to generate Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Key Features of the KSPT:

• Individual sections of the test can be used to establish treatment goals and measure progress
• Gains in motor-speech proficiency can be measured and quantified in several ways
• Items organized from simple to complex motor-speech movements, using meaningful words whenever possible
• An imitative, stimulus/response format that can be administered easily without pictorial stimulation
• Norm-referenced and standardized items that provide a raw score, a standard score, and a percentile ranking for each part of the test
• A diagnostic rating scale that assists in delineating severity levels on a continuum
• Normative information related to the “normal” speaking population of children and the “disordered” population