The Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) was developed for the purpose of objectively rating the oral-motor skills of preverbal children, with a view to identifying areas of deficient abilities that could have clinical significance. The instrument can be administered without special equipment, by a trained observer. Oral-motor function is assessed across a range of food textures and fluids. Ratings of oral-motor skills are largely made post hoc by analysis of a videorecording of the test administration. The test-retest and interrater reliability of the instrument have been shown to be excellent. Criterion validity was investigated by means of a novel 'seeded cluster analysis' procedure in which 127 young children were assessed, most of whom were between 8 and 24 months of age. Ten percent of the sample had known abnormal oral-motor function in association with cerebral palsy (ages between 12 and 42 months). Not only was criterion validity satisfactorily established by the analysis but an abbreviated version of the SOMA--suitable for screening purposes--was developed. This has been shown to have a positive predictive validity greater than 90\% and sensitivity greater than 85\% for the detection of infants with clinically significant oral-motor dysfunction.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Skuse1995
%A Skuse, D.
%A Stevenson, J.
%A Reilly, S.
%A Mathisen, B.
%D 1995
%J Dysphagia
%K Cerebral Palsy; Child, Preschool; Cluster Analysis; Deglutition; Drinking; Eating; Failure to Thrive; Forecasting; Humans; Infant; Infant Food; Lip; Mandible; Mastication; Motor Skills; Mouth; Observer Variation; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tongue; Video Recording
%N 3
%P 192--202
%T Schedule for oral-motor assessment (SOMA): methods of validation.
%V 10
%X The Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) was developed for the purpose of objectively rating the oral-motor skills of preverbal children, with a view to identifying areas of deficient abilities that could have clinical significance. The instrument can be administered without special equipment, by a trained observer. Oral-motor function is assessed across a range of food textures and fluids. Ratings of oral-motor skills are largely made post hoc by analysis of a videorecording of the test administration. The test-retest and interrater reliability of the instrument have been shown to be excellent. Criterion validity was investigated by means of a novel 'seeded cluster analysis' procedure in which 127 young children were assessed, most of whom were between 8 and 24 months of age. Ten percent of the sample had known abnormal oral-motor function in association with cerebral palsy (ages between 12 and 42 months). Not only was criterion validity satisfactorily established by the analysis but an abbreviated version of the SOMA--suitable for screening purposes--was developed. This has been shown to have a positive predictive validity greater than 90\% and sensitivity greater than 85\% for the detection of infants with clinically significant oral-motor dysfunction.
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abstract = {The Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) was developed for the purpose of objectively rating the oral-motor skills of preverbal children, with a view to identifying areas of deficient abilities that could have clinical significance. The instrument can be administered without special equipment, by a trained observer. Oral-motor function is assessed across a range of food textures and fluids. Ratings of oral-motor skills are largely made post hoc by analysis of a videorecording of the test administration. The test-retest and interrater reliability of the instrument have been shown to be excellent. Criterion validity was investigated by means of a novel 'seeded cluster analysis' procedure in which 127 young children were assessed, most of whom were between 8 and 24 months of age. Ten percent of the sample had known abnormal oral-motor function in association with cerebral palsy (ages between 12 and 42 months). Not only was criterion validity satisfactorily established by the analysis but an abbreviated version of the SOMA--suitable for screening purposes--was developed. This has been shown to have a positive predictive validity greater than 90\% and sensitivity greater than 85\% for the detection of infants with clinically significant oral-motor dysfunction.},
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