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Photo Articulation Test, Third Edition (PAT-3) : Publisher/Date

The PAT-3 is an individually administered articulation test for children ages 3 to 8. It measures articulation through picture naming and repeating words. It also assesses voice quality, language use, fluency and intelligibility through asking the child to tell a story based on pictures. The test was standardized on 800 children from 24 states to provide norms. Reliability and validity evidence cited in the manual support its use as an articulation assessment. However, the test may not be sensitive enough to discriminate variable degrees of articulation ability and does not provide a framework for remediation activities. Results must be interpreted cautiously for dialectical speakers.

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Photo Articulation Test, Third Edition (PAT-3) : Publisher/Date

The PAT-3 is an individually administered articulation test for children ages 3 to 8. It measures articulation through picture naming and repeating words. It also assesses voice quality, language use, fluency and intelligibility through asking the child to tell a story based on pictures. The test was standardized on 800 children from 24 states to provide norms. Reliability and validity evidence cited in the manual support its use as an articulation assessment. However, the test may not be sensitive enough to discriminate variable degrees of articulation ability and does not provide a framework for remediation activities. Results must be interpreted cautiously for dialectical speakers.

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Photo Articulation Test, Third Edition

(PAT-3)

Publisher/Date:
• PRO-ED, Inc., 8700 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, TX 78758-6897. Published,
1997.

Purpose:
• Individually-administered articulation inventory for children 3-8 years of
age.

Provides:
• Measurement of articulation through naming pictures and repeating
stimulus words. Voice quality, language use, fluency, and intelligibility are
assessed through the test’s final items which require the child to verbalize
a “story” around stimulus pictures.

Standardization Issues:
• The test’s norms were based on 800 children from 24 states, and included
children identified with speech-language disabilities. Purportedly, the
demographics for the norm sample closely matched US demographics for
that time period.

Reliability and Validity Issues:


• Internal consistency estimates for each age-level yielded acceptable
reliability results. Examples of content-, criterion-, concurrent-, and
construct-validity evidence are cited in the manual and appear sufficient to
support its use as an articulation inventory.

Additional Points:
• The authors’ statistical analysis for item bias on the basis of gender, race
(White/Non-White), and ethnicity (Hispanic/Non-Hispanic) suggested no
evidence of bias.
• No data on interrater reliability is reported, however, interscorer reliability
(based on 2 scorers independently scoring 20 already-completed
protocols) showed a high degree of scoring consistency.
• The test does not provide any specific framework for remedial activities,
which lies in the hands of skilled clinicians to develop.
• Item discrimination analysis of the total (standardization) sample
suggested that most children made less than 10% errors, suggesting that
the test may not be especially sensitive to discriminating variable-degrees
of development.
• The test is not normed for dialectical speakers, so care must be taken in
interpreting results from children whose language contains natural
dialectical variations, such as AAE (African American English). A brief
overview of Morphosyntactic AAE features based on independent studies
from 1994 and 2006 is retrievable at:
http://www.txsha.org/Convention/pdf/Switzer,%20Kathy-AAE.pdf

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