Determinant factors of severity rating of phonological disorder.
BACKGROUND
Phonological disorder.


OBJECTIVE
To analyze the severity descriptors used by graduation students of the Speech-Language Communication Sciences and Speech-Language Pathologists to classify the phonological disorder.


METHODS
60 judges classified the speech of 50 phonological disordered children regarding the severity of the disorder, after listening to their speech samples.


RESULTS
The most used and applied severity descriptors, to justify the severity of the disorder, were: phonology, age, intelligibility, voice and speech.


CONCLUSIONS
The judges used similar criteria in the perceptual judgment of the severity.
Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. hfwertzn@usp.br
Haydée Fiszbein
HF
Wertzner
Luciana
L
Amaro
Suzana Sumie
SS
Teramoto
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013065:Speech Intelligibility / Q000145:classification