نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 گروه گفتار درمانی، دانشکده علوم توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
2 گروه گفتاردرمانی، دانشکده علوم توان بخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
3 دانشکده فناوری‌های نوین پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران
4 دکترای گفتاردرمانی، استادیار گروه گفتاردرمانی، دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی، تهران، ایران
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نویسندگان [English]
Background and Aim: The Intelligibility Context Scale (ICS) is the first screening tool for the intelligibility of speech. The ICS assesses parents' perceptions of their child's speech clarity in real situations when talking with different people and has been translated into more than 60 languages. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ICS-Persian in pre-school Persian-speaking children.
Materials and Methods: This is a validation and instrumentation research study. The parents of 118 children aged 4 to 6 years with and without Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) from 10 kindergartens in Isfahan were recruited to the study through a clustered randomized sampling method. All children were evaluated by a speech therapist to confirm their overall health. Their parents completed the ICS-Persian and the ages and stages questionnaire (ASQ) was also completed for each child to determine the construct validity of the ICS. In the test-retest study, 54 parents re-filled the ICS-Persian after 3 weeks. Statistical methods included Cronbach's alpha coefficients, Pearson correlation, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), and paired t-test.
Results: Internal consistency and test-retest values were good and calculated as 0.89 and 0.82, respectively. The mean scores of children with and without SSD were statistically significant (P<0/001). In addition, a significantly higher score was observed in children who spoke similar to their peers and children who did not speak similar to their peers on the ASQ, documenting good construct validity.
Conclusion: The ICS-Persian showed good psychometric properties for the population of Persian-speaking preschool children. Iranian speech therapists can reliably use it for clinical and research purposes with Persian-speaking children.
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