Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 202-211Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/17549507.2015.1081284
Keywords
speech sound disorder; bilingualism; Speech screen
Funding
- Academy of Korean Studies Grant - Korean Government (MEST) [AKS-2012-BAA-2101]
- Ministry of Education (MOE), Republic of South Korea [AKS-2012-BAA-2101] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Purpose: This study investigated whether parents were reliable in judging their bilingual children's speech and whether parent-rated measure of children's speech could be used as a tool for a universal speech screen to identify children with speech sound disorder (SSD). Method: Single word samples from 33 Korean-English bilingual (KEB) pre-school children were analysed for percentage of consonants correct (PCC). Their parents completed the Intelligibility in Context Scale and a similarly constructed scale devised by Stertzbach and Gildersleeve-Neumann. Spearman rank correlations were used to examine the association between the PCC scores and the parent-rated measures. Result: A number of factors influenced parents' reliability in judging their bilingual children's speech, including language dominance and the nature of the questions that were asked. The perception of strangers on a child's speech problems, as judged by the parents, could be significant in identifying children with SSD. When the cut-off ICS mean score derived from a previous monolingual research was applied to KEB children, over 40% of the sample was identified as requiring a comprehensive clinical assessment. Conclusion: Implementation of a universal speech screen utilising parent-rated measures of children's speech cannot be introduced without further research.
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