title: Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children (STI-CH)--validity and reliability of a computer-mediated single word intelligibility test for children.
abstract: The aim of this study was twofold: first, to describe a new Swedish intelligibility test (Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children, STI-CH) and second to evaluate its validity and reliability. STI-CH is based on the repetition of single words. Ten children with a speech-sound disorder (4:6-8:3 years of age, mean = 6.0 years) and 10 children with typical speech and language development (4:8-7:4 years of age, mean = 5.9 years) were included. Twenty speech-language pathology students served as listeners. Intra-judge reliability was high (r > 0.92), as was the intra-class correlation of inter-judge reliability (0.97). In terms of validity, there was a significant difference in STI-CH scores between the two groups, and the scores correlated statistically significantly with the Percentage of Consonants Correct (r = 0.94) and with intelligibility in spontaneous speech (r = 0.85). To sum up, the results indicate that STI-CH could be an option for the assessment of intelligibility in Swedish-speaking children, and that the principles used in the development of the test could be of use in the design of intelligibility tests in languages other than Swedish.
authors.affiliation: Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden and.
authors.forename: Tove B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Lagerberg
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hartelius
authors.forename: Jakob Åsberg
authors.initials: JÅ
authors.lastname: Johnels
authors.forename: Anna-Karin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ahlman
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Börjesson
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Persson
mesh_terms: D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013548:Sweden
keywords: Assessment; child; intelligibility; speech; speech disorders