Investigation of the reliability of the SSI-3 for preschool Persian-speaking children who stutter.
There is a pressing need in Iran for the translation of widely used speech-language assessment tools into Persian. This study reports the interjudge and intrajudge reliability of a Persian translation of the Stuttering Severity Instrument-3 (SSI-3) (Riley, 1994). There was greater than 80% interjudge and intrajudge agreement on scale scores for Frequency and Duration, 54% interjudge and 62.2% intrajudge agreement for "Physical Concomitants" and greater than 80% interjudge and intrajudge agreement for the Overall score. In conclusion, although percentage agreement for Physical Concomitant Behaviors was low, the Persian translation of SSI-3 shows otherwise acceptable interjudge and intrajudge reliability when performed under ideal conditions.


OBJECTIVE
The reader of this article will be able to: (1) explain the process of test translation from the original language to another language; (2) summarize the process of determining interjudge and intrajudge reliability of the SSI-3 in preschoolers.
Bakhtiar
Mehdi
M
Speech Therapy Department, Faculty of Para Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Razmju Moghadam Lab., Kafami St., Zahedan, Iran. mbakhtiar@gmail.com
Seifpanahi
Sadegh
S
Ansari
Hossein
H
Ghanadzade
Mehdi
M
Packman
Ann
A
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D014175:Translating