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From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 04 Oct 2010
Time: 13:57:06 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
Dear Dr. Rommel, Thank you for your question, and for pointing out that I neglected to address the coding of multiple SLD on the same word, which does occur fairly frequently in preschool children. Since this system is looking at disfluency counts, each disfluency is coded, so if a child has a repetition and is also disrhythmic, there would be 2 disfluencies on the same word. You also mention the weighted measure, which is a way to assess severity and help differentiate children who stutter from those who are normally fluent. Unfortunately, a discussion of this measure was outside the scope of this short paper. In regard to reliability, I believe all the Yairi studies have used point by point agreement for the occurrence of SLD, for intra- and interrater reliability, with percentages of agreement around 90% or more. Point-by-point reliability for disfluencies has not been the focus of its own study, but I know I did these reliability measures for my own studies with disfluency counts, and found reliability to be relatively high. Cordially, Jean