title: The efficacy of stuttering measurement training: evaluating two training programs.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Two stuttering measurement training programs currently used for training clinicians were evaluated for their efficacy in improving the accuracy of total stuttering event counting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four groups, each with 12 randomly allocated participants, completed a pretest-posttest design training study. They were evaluated by their counts of stuttering events on eight 3-min audiovisual speech samples from adults and children who stutter. Stuttering judgment training involved use of either the Stuttering Measurement System (SMS), Stuttering Measurement Assessment and Training (SMAAT) programs, or no training. To test for the reliability of any training effect, SMS training was repeated with the 4th group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both SMS-trained groups produced approximately 34% improvement, significantly better than no training or the SMAAT program. The SMAAT program produced a mixed result.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The SMS program was shown to produce a "medium" effect size improvement in the accuracy of stuttering event counts, and this improvement was almost perfectly replicated in a 2nd group. Half of the SMAAT judges produced a 36% improvement in accuracy, but the other half showed no improvement. Additional studies are needed to demonstrate the durability of the reported improvements, but these positive effects justify the importance of stuttering measurement training.
authors: Lauren A
authors: LA
authors: Bainbridge
authors: Candace
authors: C
authors: Stavros
authors: Mineh
authors: M
authors: Ebrahimian
authors: Yuedong
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Roger J
authors: RJ
authors: Ingham
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis*; D055815:Young Adult
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