Validity and Reliability of the Stuttering Severity Instrument-Fourth Edition for School-Aged Children and Adult Arabic-Speaking People Who Stutter.

IF 2.2 3区医学 Q1 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI:10.1044/2025_LSHSS-25-00021

Mazin T Alqhazo, Tha'er Al-Kadi, Firas S Alfwaress

{"title":"Validity and Reliability of the Stuttering Severity Instrument-Fourth Edition for School-Aged Children and Adult Arabic-Speaking People Who Stutter.","authors":"Mazin T Alqhazo, Tha'er Al-Kadi, Firas S Alfwaress","doi":"10.1044/2025_LSHSS-25-00021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The Stuttering Severity Instrument-Fourth Edition (SSI-4) is unavailable in Arabic language. The purpose of the current research is to translate the SSI-4 (Riley, 2009) into Arabic and to discuss its validity, as well as its intrajudge and interjudge reliability.Method: Archived videos of 28 school-aged children who stutter ranged in age from 8 to 16 years (M = 10.5, SD = 3.5) and 11 adults who stutter ranged in age from 19 to 22 years (M = 20.4, SD = 0.9) were assessed using a translated version of the SSI-4 by 10 graduate students in speech-language pathology. The 10 raters evaluated the speech samples for the cases using the translated versions at Time 1 and Time 2 (2 weeks apart). The validity of the scale was assessed using Pearson correlation coefficients, while intrajudge and interjudge reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients.Results: The results showed that the subscales of the SSI (frequency, duration, and physical features) were valid items. For reliability, the results revealed that the interjudge reliability values for both school-aged children and adults who stutter in all the items of the scale were less than 80%, whereas the intrajudge agreement was higher than 80% for all the items of the SSI-4 for both children and adults.Conclusion: In conclusion, the Arabic version of SSI-4 requires more data to assess its reliability before recommending its clinical use in Arabic-speaking communities.","PeriodicalId":54326,"journal":{"name":"Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_LSHSS-25-00021","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Purpose: The Stuttering Severity Instrument-Fourth Edition (SSI-4) is unavailable in Arabic language. The purpose of the current research is to translate the SSI-4 (Riley, 2009) into Arabic and to discuss its validity, as well as its intrajudge and interjudge reliability.

Method: Archived videos of 28 school-aged children who stutter ranged in age from 8 to 16 years (M = 10.5, SD = 3.5) and 11 adults who stutter ranged in age from 19 to 22 years (M = 20.4, SD = 0.9) were assessed using a translated version of the SSI-4 by 10 graduate students in speech-language pathology. The 10 raters evaluated the speech samples for the cases using the translated versions at Time 1 and Time 2 (2 weeks apart). The validity of the scale was assessed using Pearson correlation coefficients, while intrajudge and interjudge reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients.

Results: The results showed that the subscales of the SSI (frequency, duration, and physical features) were valid items. For reliability, the results revealed that the interjudge reliability values for both school-aged children and adults who stutter in all the items of the scale were less than 80%, whereas the intrajudge agreement was higher than 80% for all the items of the SSI-4 for both children and adults.

Conclusion: In conclusion, the Arabic version of SSI-4 requires more data to assess its reliability before recommending its clinical use in Arabic-speaking communities.

查看原文本刊更多论文

口吃严重程度量表第四版对学龄儿童和成年阿拉伯语口吃者的效度和信度。

目的：口吃严重程度量表-第四版（SSI-4）没有阿拉伯文版本。当前研究的目的是将SSI-4 （Riley, 2009）翻译成阿拉伯语，并讨论其效度，以及其法官内部和法官之间的信度。方法：由10名语言病理学研究生对28名8 ~ 16岁的学龄口吃儿童（M = 10.5, SD = 3.5）和11名19 ~ 22岁的口吃成人（M = 20.4, SD = 0.9）的录像档案进行评估，使用翻译版的SSI-4。10名评分员在时间1和时间2（间隔2周）使用翻译版本评估案例的语音样本。量表的效度采用Pearson相关系数进行评估，而法官内信度和法官间信度采用类内相关系数进行评估。结果：结果表明，SSI的子量表（频率、持续时间和身体特征）是有效条目。在信度方面，学龄儿童和口吃成人在量表所有项目的判断间信度值均小于80%，而在si -4的所有项目中，儿童和成人的判断内一致性均高于80%。结论：综上所述，阿拉伯语版SSI-4在推荐其在阿拉伯语社区的临床应用前，需要更多的数据来评估其可靠性。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

165

期刊介绍： Mission: LSHSS publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles pertaining to the practice of audiology and speech-language pathology in the schools, focusing on children and adolescents. The journal is an international outlet for clinical research and is designed to promote development and analysis of approaches concerning the delivery of services to the school-aged population. LSHSS seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work. Scope: The broad field of audiology and speech-language pathology as practiced in schools, including aural rehabilitation; augmentative and alternative communication; childhood apraxia of speech; classroom acoustics; cognitive impairment; craniofacial disorders; fluency disorders; hearing-assistive technology; language disorders; literacy disorders including reading, writing, and spelling; motor speech disorders; speech sound disorders; swallowing, dysphagia, and feeding disorders; voice disorders.