TY - JOUR ID - 44956 TI - Assessment of Speech Sound Production by Story-retelling in Persian Speaking Children: Introducing a New Instrument JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - IJMS LA - en SN - 0253-0716 AU - Ahmadi, Akram AU - Kamali, Mohammad AU - Mohamadi, Reyhane AU - Zarifian, Talieh AU - Ebadi, Abbas AU - Dastjerdi Kazemi, Mehdi AU - Ghasisin, Leila AD - Department of Speech and Language Pathology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Ira AD - Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran AD - Communication Disorders Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 299 EP - 306 KW - children KW - Assessment KW - Test KW - Persian KW - Articulation DO - 10.30476/ijms.2019.44956 N2 - Background: Speech and language pathologists should include connected speech assessment as part of their evaluation for children with speech sound disorders. The purpose of the present study was to design and validate an instrument for assessment of articulation by story-retelling for Persian children.Methods: 261 typically developing children, aged 4-5 years old in Iran, Tehran, in 2016-2017, were recruited in the current study. First, two stories were designed. Next, the expert panel reviewed those two stories and selected one story for assessment. The strengths of the test for discriminating between the two age groups (48-54 months and 55-60 months) and between boys and girls were investigated for construct validity. Test-retest was performed for 15 children. Also, inter-rater reliability was evaluated via calculating the correlation between the two examiners’ scores. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 24, was used for statistical analysis. The significance level was set at (P<0.05).Results: There was 80% or more agreement in experts’ response to questions regarding content validity. All of the reliability values were higher than 0.85. No significant difference was observed between boys and girls (P=0.77), but there was a significant difference between the two age groups (P<0.001). There was a significant correlation between this test and phonetic test of the Persian version of diagnostic articulation and phonology (r=0.62, P=0.002). Conclusion: The Persian story for the assessment of speech sound production is a reliable and valid instrument that can be used to evaluate the articulation of Persian children. UR - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_44956.html L1 - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_44956_4d13a16e890d1d0350c455961a709bda.pdf ER -