A Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 37 (3) , 314-322
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.3703.314
Abstract
A new instrument for measuring stuttering severity has been standardized on 109 children and 28 adults. The instrument attempted to meet the criteria of simplicity, objectivity, sensitivity to fluency changes of clinical significance, reliability, validity, and usability with children and adults. The frequency, duration, and associated physical concomitants of prolongations or repetitions of short speech segments are described. Procedures have been devised for scoring so that a range of 0 to 45 is possible. The statistical reliability and validity appear to qualify the instrument for clinical and research uses.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: