Clinical research with the prosody-voice screening profile

The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile (PVSP) is a clinical research instrumen t that quantifies a speaker's conversational speech status in seven suprase gmental domains: phrasing, rate, stress, loudness, pitch, laryngeal quality and resonance. The PVSP has been used to assess the prosody-voice characte ristics of children and adult speakers with typical speech-language develop ment and with a variety of speech-language disorders of known and unknown o rigin. PVSP coding requires a trained examiner to determine, on an utteranc e-by-utterance basis within each of the seven domains, whether a speaker's prosody-voice characteristics can be defined as appropriate based on a set of auditory-perceptual criteria. This report provides brief overviews of th e development, administration, and psychometric features of this screening tool, and summarizes prosody-voice findings to date for several typically s peaking and clinical populations.