The 60’s have high pressure consonants that could be difficult for those with velopharyngeal incompetence. A score of 0 would indicate no assimilation nasality and a score of 4 or more would indicate noticeable nasality.
The 70’s are heavily loaded with nasal sounds and the vowels may show assimilation nasality. This will be the most difficult group to score as it is not an all or nothing score. You should hear nasality on the seventy portion but not on the one, two, three, etc. Score the second part of the production for nasality.
The 80’s should sound normal if there is no problem with velopharyngeal closure.
The 90’s should sound normal because both typical speakers and those with closure problems will produce these nasal sounds the same.
If automatic saving is not enabled, the speech sample can be saved by clicking on the Save Recording... button. All of the samples for this exercise are saved in the same folder and given a name that starts with the word, followed by the date, and time. You can play the sample by clicking on the Load Recording... button and selecting it from the list.
Click Next when you are ready to continue.