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Using a scoring template to identify intervention goals for adolescent social communication interventions 使用评分模板确定青少年社会沟通干预的干预目标
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106513
Gerard H. Poll , William J. Boone , Janis Petru
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Vocabulary and reading skills in adults with Prader-Willi syndrome 成人普瑞德-威利综合症的词汇和阅读技巧
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106508
Christelle Robert , Séverine Estival , Virginie Postal , Virginie Laurier , Fabien Mourre , Julie Tricot , Stéphanie Mathey
{"title":"Vocabulary and reading skills in adults with Prader-Willi syndrome","authors":"Christelle Robert ,&nbsp;Séverine Estival ,&nbsp;Virginie Postal ,&nbsp;Virginie Laurier ,&nbsp;Fabien Mourre ,&nbsp;Julie Tricot ,&nbsp;Stéphanie Mathey","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic condition associated with global intellectual impairment. While research has evidenced speech problems, little is known about reading, which is a critical language ability involved in communication. The aim of the present study was to investigate vocabulary and reading skills in adults with PWS.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A total of 56 individuals (35 females, mean age = 33.64 years, range = 19–57 years) with PWS participated. Standardized paper and pencil tests were used to examine the level of vocabulary (LexTale-FR test) and reading performance (Alouette-R test). Two computerized tasks were also administered to assess the efficiency of lexical and phonological processes in reading (lexical and phonological decision tasks, taken from the ECCLA software). Performance was analyzed and compared with available norms on neurotypical adults and/or children.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results showed that adults with PWS had a low level of vocabulary (i.e., three to five standard deviations difference compared to neurotypical adults), poor reading skills (i.e., equivalent to the level of nine-year-olds), and less efficient lexical and non-lexical phonological processes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The present data suggest a global impairment in vocabulary and reading skills in adults with PWS. These findings might help clinicians to better understand the language abilities of these patients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106508"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143547135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Psychometric properties of the Intelligibility in Context Scale in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without speech sound disorders from Peru 秘鲁有或无语音障碍的单语西班牙语儿童语境可理解度的心理测量特征
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106511
Chelsea L. Sommer , Caitlin A. Cummings , Evelyn Cáceres-Nano , Carolina Romero-Narváez , Sarah Hatch Pollard
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Intelligibility in Context Scale in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without speech sound disorders from Peru","authors":"Chelsea L. Sommer ,&nbsp;Caitlin A. Cummings ,&nbsp;Evelyn Cáceres-Nano ,&nbsp;Carolina Romero-Narváez ,&nbsp;Sarah Hatch Pollard","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This study explored the construct validity, internal consistency, and criterion validity of The Intelligibility in Context Scale: Spanish (ICS-S) with monolingual Spanish-speakers from Peru.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Participants included 40 Spanish-speaking children (3 years and 3 months to 10 years and 11 months of age), <em>n</em> = 21 with typical speech, and <em>n</em> = 19 with speech sound disorders (SSD). Caregivers completed the ICS-S and children completed a single word articulation test; percent of consonants correct (PCC) were calculated. To evaluate construct validity, correlations were run between the ICS-S mean and the 7 ICS items; mean ICS-S scores in those with and without an SSD were compared using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Additionally, correlations were conducted between PCC and ICS-S mean scores to assess criterion validity and Chronbach's alpha was used to assess internal consistency. Because eight participants were rated as having both an SSD and severe hypernasality (defined as EAI=4), we ran sensitivity analyses with these participants excluded.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The mean ICS-S score for the children with SSD was 3.5 and for the children with typical speech was 4.4. Correlations between item and total mean on the ICS-S were significant (<em>p</em> = 0.000 - 0.004) in all but one case (parent's rating with the ICS-S mean score for the children with typical speech and those without CP; <em>p</em> = 0.203 &amp; 0.131). Mean ICS-S scores were significantly lower in those with SSDs (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). Criterion validity between PCC and the ICS-S mean score was <em>r</em> = 0.564, CI= 0.307 - 0.745 <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001 and internal consistency between all the test items on the ICS-S was α = 0.913. Most results (except one) remained consistent when the eight with SSD and severe hypernasality were excluded.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The ICS-S demonstrated construct and criterion validity as well as internal consistency for a cohort of monolingual Spanish children with and without SSD. These findings support the use of the ICS-S for screening for speech sound disorders (SSDs) in Spanish-speaking children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106511"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Performance of autistic adults on conversational implicatures: A comparison of material and behavioural inferences 自闭症成人在会话含义上的表现:物质和行为推论的比较
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106509
Mark Jary , Isabel Martín-González , Agustín Vicente , Elena Castroviejo
{"title":"Performance of autistic adults on conversational implicatures: A comparison of material and behavioural inferences","authors":"Mark Jary ,&nbsp;Isabel Martín-González ,&nbsp;Agustín Vicente ,&nbsp;Elena Castroviejo","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper compares the performance of autistic and neurotypical participants in discourse-completion tasks that require the identification of two types of particularised conversational implicature. Material implicatures are those in which the inferential relationship from what is said to the implicature can be reconstructed without recourse to descriptions of the speaker's behaviour and the reasons underlying it, while behavioural implicatures do require such descriptions. We hypothesised that autistic participants would perform on a par with neurotypical participants in the material cases, but less well than neurotypicals in the behavioural cases, given that the latter make greater demands on theory of mind. In fact, we found that autistic participants’ performance mirrored that of neurotypicals in both conditions. We note a general tendency in the literature for autistic individuals to perform well on tests of comprehending implicit communication, in contrast to attested and self-reported difficulties in this area. We speculate that this mismatch might be explained in terms of a difference in underlying competence and the performance demands of real-world interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A systematic review of the relationships amongst older adults’ cognitive and motor speech abilities 老年人认知和运动语言能力之间关系的系统回顾
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510
Laura Manderson, Anna Krzeczkowska, Anja Kuschmann, Anja Lowit, Louise A. Brown Nicholls
{"title":"A systematic review of the relationships amongst older adults’ cognitive and motor speech abilities","authors":"Laura Manderson,&nbsp;Anna Krzeczkowska,&nbsp;Anja Kuschmann,&nbsp;Anja Lowit,&nbsp;Louise A. Brown Nicholls","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Age-related differences in motor speech performance may be only partially explained by physiological factors. In this systematic review we investigated the extent to which cognition is related to older adults’ motor speech production. PsycInfo, PubMed, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were last searched on 1st October 2024. Eligible studies involved healthy older adults, and/or those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with an average age of 60 or above. Study quality was formally evaluated and results presented via a narrative synthesis. In total, there were 22 eligible studies identified including 747 older adults. Ten of eighteen studies investigating attention/executive abilities reported significant relationships with motor speech subprocesses in 571 of 661 participants. Relationships between other cognitive abilities and motor speech outcomes were also reported, however, there were significant gaps in the literature and heterogeneity in the measurements used. In addition, only five studies contained the highest quality evidence. Cognition, and potentially executive abilities specifically, may affect speech articulation in healthy aging and in MCI. Further research implementing a range of tasks is required to better understand the trajectory of age-related changes to cognition and motor speech production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A year in stuttering research: A systematic review of global representation and sociodemographic reporting practices in English-language journals in 2020 口吃研究的一年:2020年英语期刊全球代表性和社会人口报告实践的系统回顾
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106500
Ryan A. Millager , Talia Liu , Dillon G. Pruett , Robin M. Jones
{"title":"A year in stuttering research: A systematic review of global representation and sociodemographic reporting practices in English-language journals in 2020","authors":"Ryan A. Millager ,&nbsp;Talia Liu ,&nbsp;Dillon G. Pruett ,&nbsp;Robin M. Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106500","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Demographic data is inconsistently reported and defined in communication sciences and disorders research, yet gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) may be critical considerations for investigations of stuttering. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the global scope and sociodemographic reporting practices among stuttering research published in the year 2020.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Article searches were conducted in February 2023 in PsycINFO, PubMed, and ASHAWire for studies sampling participants with developmental stuttering or cluttering. Further inclusion criteria for systematic review were that articles must: (a) be published in the year 2020, (b) be published in a peer-reviewed journal, and (c) present original empirical research. Participant gender, ethnicity, and SES were extracted via a manualized coding scheme.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The total corpus for review included <em>k</em> = 92 articles, representing a total <em>n</em> = 7,342 participants recruited from 26 different countries. The majority of articles (<em>k</em> = 36) were based in the United States (US), with all other countries contributing between 1 and 5 articles each. Gender (or sex) was reported in 93.5% of included studies, ethnicity in 22.8%, and SES in 41.3%. Reporting practices did not significantly differ between US and non-US countries. Of note, only one article in 2020 recruited participants who clutter, with all others recruiting participants who stutter.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This is the first systematic review of diversity and reporting practices in the global stuttering research literature. Our results revealed a narrow global distribution of research participants, with limited reporting and analyses regarding participant ethnicity or SES. Consequently, we have identified opportunities to improve research participant transparency and to further consider sociocultural variables toward the advancement of global and inclusive stuttering research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143330278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Measuring communicative style in parents of infants with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders: Reliability test and adaptation of the RAACS instrument 测量疑似神经发育障碍婴儿父母的沟通方式:RAACS仪器的信度检验和适应性
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106499
Lena Lindberger , Päivikki Aarne , Gunilla Thunberg , Anna Rensfeldt Flink
{"title":"Measuring communicative style in parents of infants with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders: Reliability test and adaptation of the RAACS instrument","authors":"Lena Lindberger ,&nbsp;Päivikki Aarne ,&nbsp;Gunilla Thunberg ,&nbsp;Anna Rensfeldt Flink","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The Responsive Augmentative and Alternative Communication Style Scale, version 3 (RAACS 3) has been used when assessing communicative style in parents of children with communicative disabilities between 12 and 60 months of age and it has demonstrated validity and reliability. The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of RAACS when applied to video-recorded communication between parents and their infants (aged four to 12 months) with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders, and, if needed, adapt, and retest the instrument.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Four speech language pathologists performed a three-phase reliability procedure using twenty-six audio-video recordings of interactions between parents and infants. Inter- and intrarater agreement was calculated. In phase I the original instrument RAACS 3 was used, on twenty recordings. In phase II the instrument was adapted to better suit the target group (parents of infants aged four to 12 months) and was called RAACS 4. In phase III RAACS 4 was pilot tested on six new audio-video recordings. This phase also included two joint ratings and a consensus discussion between the raters preceding the rating procedure.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The testing during phase I showed low reliability rates of RAACS 3 independent of statistical test method. The pilot testing that was done during phase III showed that the adapted version, RAACS 4, had higher reliability rates.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>RAACS 3 was not reliable for assessment of communicative style in parents of infants. RAACS 4 showed promising results when assessing communicative style of parents of infants with neurodevelopmental delays. Further reliability and validity investigation is needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Longitudinal predictors of reading ability in children with CI learning to read in Swedish 学习瑞典语阅读的CI儿童阅读能力的纵向预测因素。
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497
Malin Wass , Lena Anmyr , Björn Lyxell , Eva Karltorp , Elisabet Östlund , Ulrika Löfkvist
{"title":"Longitudinal predictors of reading ability in children with CI learning to read in Swedish","authors":"Malin Wass ,&nbsp;Lena Anmyr ,&nbsp;Björn Lyxell ,&nbsp;Eva Karltorp ,&nbsp;Elisabet Östlund ,&nbsp;Ulrika Löfkvist","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Purpose: This study investigated long-term predictors of reading development (phonological decoding, word recognition, and reading comprehension) in 24 children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: The predictor variables were age, sex, nonverbal intelligence, working memory, paired associate learning, receptive vocabulary, phonological skills, grammatical knowledge, age at implantation, speech perception, and reported interest in reading. The children's mean age was approximately 7;8 years at the start of the study and they were then measured at three time points. The first and second assessments took place approximately 13 months apart, and the children were approximately 11;8 years of age at the third time point. Results: Decoding ability at age 11 was associated with early measures of nonverbal cognitive ability, visual-verbal paired associate learning, and grammatical knowledge when 0.05 was used as significance level but none of them remained significant after correcting for multiple comparisons. Several predictor variables from earlier measurements were significantly related to reading comprehension at age 11. The predictors that remained significant after Bonferroni correction were receptive vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. Discussion: The findings from this research suggest that early exposure to hearing and language, in particular vocabulary and grammar, is associated with reading outcomes at age 11.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106497"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Relationships between executive functions and vocabulary knowledge in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder 有与无发展性语言障碍的西班牙语儿童执行功能与词汇知识的关系
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498
Felipe Torres-Morales , Gary Morgan , Ricardo Rosas
{"title":"Relationships between executive functions and vocabulary knowledge in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder","authors":"Felipe Torres-Morales ,&nbsp;Gary Morgan ,&nbsp;Ricardo Rosas","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Developmental language disorder (DLD) is often associated with deficits in executive functions (EFs). One common area of language difficulty in DLD is the development of vocabulary knowledge and it has been suggested that EF abilities may be linked to this difficulty. However, an explanation for this relationship remains unclear. The rationale for the current study examined the relationship between EFs and two aspects of vocabulary knowledge, receptive vocabulary size and vocabulary depth, in Spanish-speaking children with and without DLD. Vocabulary skills, the EFs of interference control, response inhibition, verbal and nonverbal working memory, and switching, were assessed in a total of 204 children aged 6–8 years: 105 with DLD and 99 with typical development (TD). Relationships were assessed using multiple regression models and path analysis, including EF as predictors, receptive vocabulary size and vocabulary depth as outcome or mediating variables, and age and non-verbal intelligence as covariates. In children with DLD, the EFs verbal working memory and switching were directly associated with receptive vocabulary size and indirectly with vocabulary depth. This indirect relationship was mediated by receptive vocabulary size. In contrast, no EFs were associated with receptive vocabulary size, and vocabulary depth in the TD group. These results suggest that verbal working memory and cognitive flexibility play a role in the cognitive mechanisms linked to vocabulary development in school children with DLD. Intervention programs aimed at improving vocabulary in this population should include EF activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106498"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhancing online speech and language assessment: Item development for the remote adult language experiment (ReAL-E) tool 加强在线语音和语言评估:远程成人语言实验(ReAL-E)工具的项目开发。
IF 1.8 3区 医学
Journal of Communication Disorders Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106496
Hope Sparks Lancaster , Ryan Parks , Seth Bashford , Denis Fitzpatrick , Alicia Buttner
{"title":"Enhancing online speech and language assessment: Item development for the remote adult language experiment (ReAL-E) tool","authors":"Hope Sparks Lancaster ,&nbsp;Ryan Parks ,&nbsp;Seth Bashford ,&nbsp;Denis Fitzpatrick ,&nbsp;Alicia Buttner","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><strong>Purpose</strong>: Recent technological advancements in psychology have yielded multiple unsupervised online tools for measuring cognitive skills. However, these tools do not measure key features of communication abilities in adults, such as productive speech or oral language. To address this gap, we developed the Remote Adult Language Experiment (ReAL-E) using a three-step approach that incorporates domain identification, expert evaluation, and piloting testing.</div><div><strong>Method</strong>: Step 1 focused on domain and task identification by collaborating with experts and reviewing the literature. Step 2 included two rounds of evaluation by content and lay experts to assess the initial tool design, identify areas for refinement, and solicit feedback for desired features. Step 3 involved piloting the tool in a sample of adults recruited online.</div><div><strong>Results</strong>: The ReAL-E tool adapted three speech planning and production tasks and four oral and written language tasks into online versions. Feedback from content and lay experts led to significant improvements, including enhanced task instructions, presentation modifications, and the incorporation of features to address potential confounds. Pilot testing demonstrated that adults perform within expected ranges, and five out of seven tasks had good to excellent preliminary reliability.</div><div><strong>Conclusion</strong>: The development of the ReAL-E tool contributes to the field by offering a scalable, efficient method for assessing a broad range of communication skills in adults, paving the way for future research and clinical applications in developmental communication disorders. Our study underscores the collaborative effort and innovative approach required for creating a digital assessment tool that promises to expand research capabilities and improve diagnostic processes in the discipline.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106496"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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