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🗣️ Ability to imitate 💪 Response to stimulus
stimulability

stimulability

9.5
Being able to make a speech sound when someone shows how
  • noun
  • /ˌstɪm.jəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : estimulabilidad
  • The therapist assessed the child's stimulability for producing the /s/ sound after demonstrating it several times.

Examples

  • Traditional treatment is also associated with certain criteria for the selection of phoneme targets, including developmental order of acquisition, stimulability, and effect on intelligibility.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Results of a dynamic assessment can readily reveal the stimulability of strategies to be focused on in intervention.

    Academic text (2015)

  • During the evaluation, they noted her remarkable stimulability for imitating new speech sounds accurately.

  • To determine his stimulability, the clinician provided models for various consonant sounds and observed his responses.

Antonyms

unresponsiveness
1 7.3

Not reacting to people or events, often without emotion

How Responsive

stimulability
  • Specialized
9.5
response
342 1.3

Surface Forms

stimulability singular
stimulabilities plural

Morphology

stimulability = stimulable (transparent) = stimulate + able + ity

Formed from 'stimulable' with the productive nominalizing suffix '-ity', so the meaning 'the state of being able to be stimulated' is directly derived.

Etymology

Stimulability comes from the word stimulus meaning 'push' or 'poke' and the ending -ability meaning 'can do'. In speech therapy it means how well a person can make a sound when someone shows them how or gives a small 'push' to try, so it is their ability to respond to a prompt.