title: Parent-rated measures of bilingual children's speech accuracy: Implications for a universal speech screen.
abstract: This study investigated whether parents were reliable in judging their bilingual children's speech and whether parent-rated measure of children's speech could be used as a tool for a universal speech screen to identify children with speech sound disorder (SSD).
  
  
  
  Single word samples from 33 Korean-English bilingual (KEB) pre-school children were analysed for percentage of consonants correct (PCC). Their parents completed the Intelligibility in Context Scale and a similarly constructed scale devised by Stertzbach and Gildersleeve-Neumann. Spearman rank correlations were used to examine the association between the PCC scores and the parent-rated measures.
  
  
  
  A number of factors influenced parents' reliability in judging their bilingual children's speech, including language dominance and the nature of the questions that were asked. The perception of strangers on a child's speech problems, as judged by the parents, could be significant in identifying children with SSD. When the cut-off ICS mean score derived from a previous monolingual research was applied to KEB children, over 40% of the sample was identified as requiring a comprehensive clinical assessment.
  
  
  
  Implementation of a universal speech screen utilising parent-rated measures of children's speech cannot be introduced without further research.
authors.affiliation: a College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University , Townsville, Queensland , Australia .|b School of Psychology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand .
authors.forename: Jae-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: b School of Psychology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand .
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ballard
authors.affiliation: b School of Psychology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand .|c Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Clare M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: McCann
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D010290:Parents; D057566:Self Report; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Speech screen; bilingualism; speech sound disorder