- Title
- The reliability of a severity rating scale to measure stuttering in an unfamiliar language
- Creator
- Hoffman, Laura; Wilson, Linda; Copley, Anna; Hewat, Sally; Lim, Valerie
- Relation
- Speech Pathology Australia
- Relation
- International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 16, Issue 3, p. 317-326
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2014.898097
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- With increasing multiculturalism, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are likely to work with stuttering clients from linguistic backgrounds that differ from their own. No research to date has estimated SLPs ’ reliability when measuring severity of stuttering in an unfamiliar language. Therefore, this study was undertaken to estimate the reliability of SLPs’ use of a 9-point severity rating (SR) scale, to measure severity of stuttering in a language that was different from their own. Twenty-six Australian SLPs rated 20 speech samples (10 Australian English [AE] and 10 Mandarin) of adults who stutter using a 9-point SR scale on two separate occasions. Judges showed poor agreement when using the scale to measure stuttering in Mandarin samples. Results also indicated that 50% of individual judges were unable to reliably measure the severity of stuttering in AE. The results highlight the need for (a) SLPs to develop intra- and inter-judge agreement when using the 9-point SR scale to measure severity of stuttering in their native language (in this case AE) and in unfamiliar languages; and (b) research into the development and evaluation of practice and/or training packages to assist SLPs to do so.
- Subject
- stuttering; bilingualism; reliability; measurement; severity rating scale
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1061179
- Identifier
- uon:16899
- Identifier
- ISSN:1754-9515
- Language
- eng
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