Vanryckeghem Martine, Matthews Michael, Xu Peixin
University of Central Florida, Orlando.
University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2017 Nov 8;26(4):1129-1140. doi: 10.1044/2017_AJSLP-16-0170.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the Speech Situation Checklist for adults who stutter (SSC) in differentiating people who stutter (PWS) from speakers with no stutter based on self-reports of anxiety and speech disruption in communicative settings. The SSC's psychometric properties were examined, norms were established, and suggestions for treatment were formulated.
The SSC was administered to 88 PWS seeking treatment and 209 speakers with no stutter between the ages of 18 and 62. The SSC consists of 2 sections investigating negative emotional reaction and speech disruption in 38 speech situations that are identical in both sections.
The SSC-Emotional Reaction and SSC-Speech Disruption data show that these self-report tests differentiate PWS from speakers with no stutter to a statistically significant extent and have great discriminative value. The tests have good internal reliability, content, and construct validity. Age and gender do not affect the scores of the PWS.
The SSC-Emotional Reaction and SSC-Speech Disruption seem to be powerful measures to investigate negative emotion and speech breakdown in an array of speech situations. The item scores give direction to treatment by suggesting speech situations that need a clinician's attention in terms of generalization and carry-over of within-clinic therapeutic gains into in vivo settings.
本研究旨在评估口吃成人言语情境检查表（SSC）基于在交流情境中焦虑和言语中断的自我报告，在区分口吃者（PWS）与非口吃者方面的有用性。对SSC的心理测量特性进行了检验，建立了常模，并制定了治疗建议。
对88名寻求治疗的口吃者和209名年龄在18至62岁之间的非口吃者进行了SSC测试。SSC由两个部分组成，调查38种言语情境中的负面情绪反应和言语中断，两个部分的情境相同。
SSC情绪反应和SSC言语中断数据表明，这些自我报告测试在统计学上能显著区分口吃者与非口吃者，具有很大的判别价值。这些测试具有良好的内部信度、内容效度和结构效度。年龄和性别不影响口吃者的得分。
SSC情绪反应和SSC言语中断似乎是在一系列言语情境中调查负面情绪和言语障碍的有效措施。项目得分通过指出在泛化以及将诊所内治疗效果应用到实际生活情境方面需要临床医生关注的言语情境，为治疗提供指导。
