The Szenario-Kids: Psychometric properties of a novel, participation-oriented language assessment as determined in children and youth without communication deficits

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q4 EDUCATION, SPECIAL

Child Language Teaching & Therapy Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1177/02656590221111346

Lea Plum, Ineke van der Meulen, F. Krzok, Rena Overbeck, W. van de Sandt-Koenderman, K. Willmes, F. Binkofski, S. Bruehl

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Abstract

Background: Creating a holistic picture of children and youth who suffer from acquired aphasia or another (developmental) language disorders is very difficult due to missing diagnostic instruments covering participation. Szenario-Kids is a new diagnostic instrument to measure multimodal communication abilities in everyday life situations of children and youth aged 6 to 16 years. Aims: We aimed to examine feasibility and psychometric properties of the model-based Szenario-Kids in the healthy population, to build the basis for later test evaluation in the language-impaired patient group. Method: Szenario-Kids was administered to n = 57 children and youth without communication deficits (mean age 9.16 years; German as native language). The diagnostic instrument was presented twice within two weeks, complemented by standardized diagnostic instruments to cover all communication modalities and enable correlation of performance between tests. Results: Data analysis showed good practicability, satisfying parallelism of test versions A and B (p = .098-.845), acceptable to excellent reliability (Cronbach's α = .781-.920) and high interrater reliability (ICC = .733-.960), very strong test-retest correlation (r = .736-.893) and moderate to strong concurrent validity (r = -.475-.611; p ≤ .01). Conclusions: The analysis of feasibility and psychometric properties revealed promising results for the group without communication deficits. Neurolinguistic underpinnings can be explained within our Multimodal Communication Model (MCM). Thus, the evaluation of Szenario-Kids in language-impaired children and youth is a next step.

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Szenario儿童：在没有沟通障碍的儿童和青少年中确定的一种新颖的、以参与为导向的语言评估的心理测量特性

背景：由于缺乏涉及参与的诊断工具，很难对患有获得性失语症或其他（发展）语言障碍的儿童和青年进行全面了解。Szenario Kids是一种新的诊断工具，用于测量6至16岁儿童和青少年在日常生活中的多模式沟通能力。目的：我们旨在检验基于模型的Szenario Kids在健康人群中的可行性和心理测量特性，为语言障碍患者群体的后期测试评估奠定基础。方法：Szenario Kids = 57名没有沟通障碍的儿童和青年（平均年龄9.16岁；母语为德语）。诊断仪器在两周内提供了两次，并辅以标准化诊断仪器，以涵盖所有通信模式，并使测试之间的性能相互关联。结果：数据分析显示出良好的实用性，满足了测试版本A和测试版本B的并行性（p = .098-.845），可接受良好的可靠性（Cronbachα = .781-.920）和高的处理器间可靠性（ICC = .733-.960），非常强的重测相关性（r = .736-.893）和中等至强并发有效性（r = -.475-.611；p ≤ .01）。结论：可行性和心理测量特性的分析显示，对于没有沟通障碍的群体来说，结果很有希望。神经语言学的基础可以在我们的多模式沟通模型（MCM）中解释。因此，下一步是对语言障碍儿童和青年中的Szenario Kids进行评估。

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期刊介绍： Child Language Teaching and Therapy is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of children"s spoken and written language needs. The journal publishes original research and review articles of high practical relevance and which emphasise inter-disciplinary collaboration. Child Language Teaching and Therapy publishes regular special issues on specific subject areas and commissions keynote reviews of significant topics. The readership of the journal consists of academics and practitioners across the disciplines of education, speech and language therapy, psychology and linguistics.