Teaching · Speech & Language

Big beat, small beat. Practice the rhythm of words.

Pick the stress and tune patterns to practice, set the order and feedback, and log each word or phrase with tries and correct productions. The summary shows accuracy by pattern and whether the schedule fits how motor skills are learned.

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The prosody log

One record per student and session. 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 session, accuracy by stress or tune pattern, the errors heard, the cues used and the next change to practice.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists treating childhood apraxia of speech and other motor speech disorders that affect rhythm and stress.
Format
Browser form used during practice. Several saved sessions per student; printed with the summary or as a blank log; CSV with one row per session or the items 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.
big beat,small beat
Drawn for this page. Tapping big and small beats shows which syllable is strong and which is weak.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date.
  2. Choose the patterns, practice order, feedback and cues.
  3. Log each word or phrase with tries and correct productions.
  4. Note the errors you hear.
  5. Adjust the next session as the summary suggests.

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What the log is for

Why stress matters

Unusual stress, such as giving every syllable equal weight, is one of the features often described in childhood apraxia of speech. Words that start with a weak syllable, like balloon or banana, are often the hardest, and weak syllables may be dropped.

Practice schedule

Research on motor learning suggests that once a pattern is established, mixing targets in random order and giving feedback less often helps skills last and carry over, while blocked practice with frequent feedback helps early on. The summary checks your schedule against that.

What this log is not

It does not diagnose apraxia or score prosody against norms. It records practice so you can see what is changing.

Sources

  1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2007). Childhood Apraxia of Speech (technical report), and Practice Portal: Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
  2. Maas, E., Robin, D. A., Austermann Hula, S. N., Freedman, S. E., Wulf, G., Ballard, K. J., and Schmidt, R. A. (2008). Principles of motor learning in treatment of motor speech disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(3), 277 to 298.
  3. Ballard, K. J., Robin, D. A., McCabe, P., and McDonald, J. (2010). A treatment for dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(5), 1227 to 1245.
  4. Shriberg, L. D., Aram, D. M., and Kwiatkowski, J. (1997). Developmental apraxia of speech: III. A subtype marked by inappropriate stress. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40(2), 313 to 337.

The example student is made up. The log records practice; it does not diagnose or score. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.