Development of The Viking Speech Scale to classify the speech of children with cerebral palsy
| Autor: | Tone R. Mjøen, Daniel Virella, Andra Greitane, Audrone Prasauskiene, Maria da Graça Andrada, Gija Rackauskaite, Lindsay Pennington, Javier De La Cruz, Allan Colver, Kate Himmelmann, Janice Murray, Guro L. Andersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Speech production education Criança Speech Therapy Audiology Intelligibility (communication) Cerebral palsy Likert scale Developmental psychology Dysarthria Health care Prevalence Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Speech Child Speech scale Observer Variation business.industry Cerebral Palsy Disartria Direct observation Reproducibility of Results Fala medicine.disease HDE UCI NEO Paralisia Cerebral Vigilância Clinical Psychology Motor Skills Population Surveillance Female medicine.symptom Psychology business |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP Pennington, L, Virella, D, Mjøen, T, da Graça Andrada, M, Murray, J, Colver, A, Himmelmann, K, Rackauskaite, G, Greitane, A, Prasauskiene, A, Andersen, G & de la Cruz, J 2013, ' Development of The Viking Speech Scale to classify the speech of children with cerebral palsy ', Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 3202-10 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.035 |
| ISSN: | 0891-4222 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.035 |
| Popis: | Surveillance registers monitor the prevalence of cerebral palsy and the severity of resulting impairments across time and place. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy can affect children's speech production and limit their intelligibility. We describe the development of a scale to classify children's speech performance for use in cerebral palsy surveillance registers, and its reliability across raters and across time. Speech and language therapists, other healthcare professionals and parents classified the speech of 139 children with cerebral palsy (85 boys, 54 girls; mean age 6.03 years, SD 1.09) from observation and previous knowledge of the children. Another group of health professionals rated children's speech from information in their medical notes. With the exception of parents, raters reclassified children's speech at least four weeks after their initial classification. Raters were asked to rate how easy the scale was to use and how well the scale described the child's speech production using Likert scales. Inter-rater reliability was moderate to substantial (k>.58 for all comparisons). Test-retest reliability was substantial to almost perfect for all groups (k>.68). Over 74% of raters found the scale easy or very easy to use; 66% of parents and over 70% of health care professionals judged the scale to describe children's speech well or very well. We conclude that the Viking Speech Scale is a reliable tool to describe the speech performance of children with cerebral palsy, which can be applied through direct observation of children or through case note review. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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