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Speech-language pathology students' perceptions of child speech
What is it about?
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) rely on their perceptions to make judgements every day. How comfortable we are in making those judgement depends on the amount of experience we have. How accurate are graduate student clinicians with limited clinical experience in judging child speech sound errors? This paper examined how consistent graduate students are in rating child speech and highlighted the need for additional listening training in SLP graduate programs.
Why is it important?
Many graduate students with limited clinical experience often need to judge children’s speech using their auditory perception as part of supervised assessments and interventions early in their graduate program. This study showed that although graduate students reached substantial agreement with the expert rating on average, they reached moderate agreenment when judging errored speech. Since the accuracy of clinical judgements is expected to improve with greater exposure to disordered speech, this study highlighted the need for graduate students to receive perceptual training as part of their coursework to refine their clinical judgements.