Parent rating of intelligibility: A discussion of the construct validity of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) and normative data of the Swedish version of the ICS.

Background: Intelligibility can be defined as the speakers' ability to convey a message to the listener and it is considered the key functional measure of speech. The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a parent rating scale used to assess intelligibility in children.

Aims: To describe normative and validation data on the ICS in Swedish and to investigate how these are related to age, gender and multilingualism.

Measuring intelligibility in spontaneous speech using syllables perceived as understood.

Purpose: Intelligibility, the ability to convey a message by speech, is one of the most important variables in speech-language pathology. The assessment of intelligibility is a challenge especially when it comes to spontaneous speech. The aim of the study was to investigate validity and reliability of a method for assessment of intelligibility, syllables perceived as understood (SPU); a method that is more time-efficient than previous methods based on transcription, as it does not require a master transcript for reference.

Intelligibility of Children With Speech Sound Disorders Evaluated by Listeners With Swedish as a Second Language.

Purpose This study aimed to investigate the intelligibility of children's atypical speech in relation to listeners' language background. Method Forty-eight participants listened to and transcribed isolated words repeated by children with speech sound disorders. Participants were divided into, on the one hand, a multilingual group ( = 29) that was further divided into subgroups based on age of acquisition (early, 0-3 years; intermediate, 4-12 years; and late, > 12 years) and, on the other hand, a monolingual comparison group ( = 19).

An Investigation of the Clinical Use of a Single-Word Procedure to Assess Intelligibility (Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children) and an Evaluation of the Validity and Reliability of the Intelligibility in Context Scale.

Purpose Intelligibility is a core concept of speech-language pathology, central both to the assessment of speech disorders and to intervention in such disorders. One purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and usability of a single-word assessment procedure, the Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children (STI-CH), in a clinical setting. Another purpose was to investigate the validity and reliability of an assessment method designed to assess functional intelligibility: the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS).

Effect of the number of presentations on listener transcriptions and reliability in the assessment of speech intelligibility in children.

Background: The assessment of intelligibility is an essential part of establishing the severity of a speech disorder. The intelligibility of a speaker is affected by a number of different variables relating, inter alia, to the speech material, the listener and the listener task.

Aims: To explore the impact of the number of presentations of the utterances on assessments of intelligibility based on orthographic transcription of spontaneous speech, specifically the impact on intelligibility scores, reliability and intra-listener variability.

Swedish Test of Intelligibility for Children (STI-CH)--validity and reliability of a computer-mediated single word intelligibility test for children.

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.

Assessment of intelligibility using children's spontaneous speech: methodological aspects.

Background: Intelligibility is a speaker's ability to convey a message to a listener. Including an assessment of intelligibility is essential in both research and clinical work relating to individuals with communication disorders due to speech impairment. Assessment of the intelligibility of spontaneous speech can be used as an overall indicator of the severity of a speech disorder.