Kim, Jae-Hyun, Ballard, Elaine, and McCann, Clare M. (2016) Parent-rated measures of bilingual children's speech accuracy: implications for a universal speech screen. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18 (2). pp. 202-211.

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Abstract

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) preschool children were analysed for percentage of consonants correct (PCC) in each language. Their parents completed the Intelligibility in Context Scale (McLeod, Harrison, & McCormack, 2012) and a similarly constructed scale devised by Stertzbach and Gildersleeve-Neumann (2006). Spearman rank correlations were used to examine the association between the PCC scores and the parent-rated measures in each language.

Results: 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 by a speech-language pathologist. 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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