Teaching · Speech & Language

Every pattern counted against every chance it had.

Enter the chances and the times seen for each pattern from your transcription. The summary sorts them by percent of occurrence, marks the ones past your cutoff by kind, and tells you which counts are too small to read.

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The pattern analysis

One record per student and sample. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each sample, the patterns checked with chances, occurrences and examples, percent of occurrence for each, the active patterns by kind, and notes on stimulability, consistency and anything that limits the counts.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, clinical fellows and graduate clinicians analyzing a speech sample for an evaluation or to choose treatment targets.
Format
Browser form. Several saved records to compare samples over time; printed with the summary or as a blank tally form; CSV with one row per record or the pattern table; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Speech & Language toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. A phonological pattern is a rule the child applies across many words, which is why it is counted against every chance to apply it.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the sample date.
  2. Describe the sample and the child’s languages, and set your cutoff.
  3. From your transcription, count each pattern’s chances and the times it happened, with one example.
  4. Note stimulability and whether words come out the same way each time.
  5. Read the sorted results and the warnings before you choose targets.

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What the analysis is for

Percent of occurrence

A pattern’s percent of occurrence is the times it happened divided by the chances it had. Final consonant deletion can only happen in words that end in a consonant, so the chances come from your transcription, not the word count. Many clinicians treat a pattern seen in about 40% or more of its chances as active and a candidate for treatment; the cutoff is yours to set.

Read with care

Small numbers swing: one word changes a 3-chance pattern by a third. A sound pattern that is part of the child’s other language is a difference, not an error. Whether a pattern is expected at the child’s age depends on developmental references this form does not hold; use the ones your setting relies on.

What this form is not

It is not a standardized test and gives no standard scores, percentiles or age equivalents. It does not diagnose a speech sound disorder; it organizes counts from your own sample for your clinical judgment.

Sources

  1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Practice Portal: Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology (assessment, phonological pattern analysis, dialect and language differences).
  2. Bernthal, J. E., Bankson, N. W., and Flipsen, P., Jr. Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Speech Sound Disorders in Children, 9th edition (2022).
  3. Hodson, B. W. Evaluating and Enhancing Children’s Phonological Systems (2010), on percent-of-occurrence analysis and target selection.
  4. McLeod, S., and Baker, E. Children’s Speech: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Intervention (2017).

The example child and sample are made up. The analysis counts patterns in one sample; it does not diagnose, and it holds no age norms. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.