Time-interval measurement in stuttering

This paper explores the importance of measurement in the management of stuttering, and suggests that time-interval measurement may be a clinically useful tool for speech-language pathologists in working with children and adults who stutter. Four experienced speech-language pathologists (Expert raters) and four speech pathology students (Novice raters) used both time-interval measurement (TIM) procedures and percent syllable stuttered (PSS) measurement procedures to rate three 5-minute spontaneous speech samples for a child, adolescent and adult who stuttered. Intrarater reliability for both Expert and Novice raters was acceptable for both measures. As expected from previous findings in the literature for PSS, inter-rater reliability was acceptable for Expert raters, but not for Novice raters. However, for TIM, inter-rater reliability was acceptable for both Expert and Novice raters, which suggests that TIM may provide a useful addition to the measurement tools used by both experienced and inexperienced speech-language pathologists

Audiology · Cognition · Communication disorder · Developmental psychology · German · Inter-rater reliability · Language disorder · Linguistics · Psychiatry · Rating scale · Speech recognition · Stuttering · Syllable · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Stuttering Research and Treatment

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