Normative and validation data of an articulation test for Italian-speaking children

Tresoldi, Martina; Barillari, Maria Rosaria; Ambrogi, Federico; Sai, Elena; Barillari, Umberto; Tozzi, Elvira; Scarponi, Letizia; Schindler, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2018.05.002

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“…In the present study, the age for the mastery of the utterance of /s/ consonant was determined as 7;0-7;11 years, i.e. in line with the results reported by Poole [28], and Tresoldi [8].…”

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“…Comparing the data with the normative data reported in other studies investigating the children who speak other lan- guages suggests numerous similarities in speech development. For instance, consistent with other studies, Persian-speaking children acquire nasal consonants and frontal stop consonants sooner and affricatives and /s/, /z/, and /ʒ/ consonants later [8,14,[27][28][29]. In the present study, the age for the mastery of the utterance of /s/ consonant was determined as 7;0-7;11 years, i.e.…”

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“…Fluharty [4] has underscored the necessity of performing highly reliable and valid articulation tests; such inventories are suggested to be culturally and phonemically feasible, simple, comprehensive, and quick to administer and can represent the articulation competence in the pediatric population. Picture naming tests are clinically applied for speech assessment during childhood across the world in different languages Arabic [5], English [6], European-Portuguese [7], Italian [8], and Farsi [9][10][11]. Such tests target the assessment of the production of all consonant phonemes (23 consonants) in all word positions, namely initial, middle, and final.…”

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“…Implementing the picture naming tests requires the elicitation of long-list words (e.g. 80 words [9] or 180 words [8]).…”

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Developing and Examining the Psychometrics of Single-word Quick Repetition Test for Speech Sound Production in Persian-speaking Children

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Schindler

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Objectives: The present study aimed to develop and validate a quick repetition test using familiar and culture-based words for assessing Persian-speaking children with Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs). Methods: The study sample was divided into two groups, including 419 participants without any clinical signs of speech impairment and 36 cases with SSD. The psychometric properties of the single word quick repetition test, including reliability (inter-rater and test-retest reliability) and validity (construct, discriminant, convergent, clinical and concurrent validity) were examined. Moreover, the descriptive data for children without SSD were reported. Results: The obtained test-retest and inter-rater reliability data were satisfactory with Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC): >0.7. There was a positive correlation between the results of the quick repetition test and phonetic test, indicating the scale’s acceptable convergence validity. Using inflated beta-binomial regression, statistically significant improvement in test score was found with age (discriminant validity). Comparing the correct responses of the control and case groups (clinical validity) revealed a significant difference in responses between the study groups. Results of Bland–Altman plot suggested an acceptable agreement between quick repetition test and phonetic test (construct validity). Discussion: The Persian quick repetition test is a valid and reliable instrument facilitating the screening of speech sound abilities in 3-8-year-olds. Moreover, this test’s conciseness makes it easily applicable in clinical practice and epidemiologic investigations. Establishing descriptive data from a large sample facilitated comparing children’s speech ability to the speech development standards.

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“…In the present study, the age for the mastery of the utterance of /s/ consonant was determined as 7;0-7;11 years, i.e. in line with the results reported by Poole [28], and Tresoldi [8].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Implementing the picture naming tests requires the elicitation of long-list words (e.g. 80 words [9] or 180 words [8]).…”

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Developing and Examining the Psychometrics of Single-word Quick Repetition Test for Speech Sound Production in Persian-speaking Children

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Schindler

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“…Consid ering the Italian learning process specifically, these phonemes are pro duced last both in mother tongue and second language context. 8 In Ta ble 5, I report the results of a recent experiment conducted by Italian speech therapists on the phonological development of Italianspeaking children (Tresoldi et al, 2018). They measured the average age of cus tomary production, acquisition, and mastery of Italian consonants in an L1 context.…”

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Mystic Messages---The Magic of Writing

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Grapholinguistics and Its Applications

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Phonological variations in typically-developing Italian-speaking children aged 3;0-4;11

Fox-Boyer

Lavaggi

Fricke

2021

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Normative data on phonological acquisition of a language are a prerequisite for evaluating children's speech sound competences. To date, these data are not sufficiently available for Italian. This study, therefore, aimed to describe the phonological development of 183 typically-developing monolingual Italian-speaking children aged 3;0-4;11 (four 6-months age bands). Participants were assessed through a picture naming task, and performances analysed in terms of number of phonological variations (Tokens), Types and percentage of occurrence of patterns, and number of infrequent variants (InfrVar) as a measure of stability in speech production. Two cut-off criteria to distinguish InfrVar from phonological patterns were applied. Results showed a gradual reduction of all measures with increasing age. Twenty-two patterns generally in line with previous Italian and cross-linguistic studies were observed, with only five patterns and two phonetic distortions occurring across all age groups. Eight patterns only emerged when applying the lower cut-off criterion, while further seven patterns only occurred with very low frequency or in isolated age groups. These findings highlight the influence of the selected cut-off criterion on the identification of patterns and raise the question of whether some patterns should rather be considered InfVar. Data on younger children are still needed to clarify whether low frequency patterns are patterns of younger typicallydeveloping children that have almost resolved in the age groups assessed. At least half of the phonological variation Tokens fell into the category of InfrVar, indicating a need to pay more attention to this so far ignored measure.

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Normative and validation data of an articulation test for Italian-speaking children

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Developing and Examining the Psychometrics of Single-word Quick Repetition Test for Speech Sound Production in Persian-speaking Children

Developing and Examining the Psychometrics of Single-word Quick Repetition Test for Speech Sound Production in Persian-speaking Children

Mystic Messages---The Magic of Writing

Phonological variations in typically-developing Italian-speaking children aged 3;0-4;11

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