The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, United Kingdom.
J Fluency Disord. 2011 Sep;36(3):206-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2011.02.007. Epub 2011 Mar 16.
To find out what information children, parents and education staff feel would be important to know to support a child who stutters in the educational environment, in order to develop appropriate resources.
A Delphi study was carried out to seek the opinions of experts about the information to include. A structured six stage process was completed in order to gain consensus within four expert panels: children who stutter (CWS) aged 7-11 (n=25); young people who stutter aged 12-18 (n=27); parents of children and young people who stutter aged 2-18 (n=67); and members of the education workforce (n=35).
In response to the questions, 538 statements were generated across the four expert panels, categorised and reduced to 276. Of the 154 rating questionnaires sent out, 99 were returned (64.2% response rate). The top 32 statements, which were those most highly rated and with the greatest consensus, were retained to inform the resources.
This study demonstrates the value of including service users when devising materials aimed for the benefit of CWS. The methodology employed ensured that ideas, perceptions and needs were representative of a range of people who experience stuttering from different perspectives. The results indicated that each expert panel had different priorities of what should be included. The resulting resources may therefore be considered to have high content validity and would be predicted to meet the needs of those who require them.
The reader will be able to (1) define the Delphi Approach (2) discuss the development of a user led resource for raising awareness about stuttering.
了解儿童、家长和教育工作者认为在教育环境中支持口吃儿童需要了解哪些信息，以便开发合适的资源。
开展了一项德尔菲研究，以征求专家对纳入信息的意见。为了在四个专家小组内达成共识，完成了一个结构化的六阶段过程：7-11 岁口吃儿童（n=25）；12-18 岁口吃青少年（n=27）；2-18 岁口吃儿童和青少年的家长（n=67）；教育工作者（n=35）。
针对这些问题，四个专家小组共生成了 538 条陈述，分类后减少到 276 条。在发出的 154 份评分问卷中，有 99 份（64.2%的回复率）被退回。排名前 32 的陈述是那些被高度评价且共识度最高的陈述，这些陈述被保留下来作为资源的依据。
本研究表明，在设计旨在惠及口吃儿童的材料时，纳入服务使用者具有重要价值。所采用的方法确保了从不同角度体验口吃的一系列人群的想法、看法和需求具有代表性。结果表明，每个专家小组对口吃者应该包含的内容都有不同的优先级。因此，所产生的资源可能被认为具有较高的内容效度，并有望满足需要这些资源的人群的需求。
读者将能够（1）定义德尔菲方法；（2）讨论为提高对口吃的认识而开发用户主导的资源。
