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From: Emily Garnett
Date: 14 Apr 2010
Time: 17:49:22 -0500
Remote Name: 173.81.117.198
I agree with Judy. I developed a set of rating scales for just that reason while doing my thesis. I knew that my clutterers probably wouldn't show evidence of cluttering when I met them, so I had 3 people fill out the rating scales: the clutterer, a good friend or family member of the clutterer, and myself, both prior to meeting the clutterer (e.g. if we spoke on the phone) and then when I ran the subject in my thesis. The scales allowed the rater to judge several areas such as expressive language, rate, disfluencies, etc. And I did find differences when comparing the clutterers to my controls. If anyone is interested I can provide the scales and my data, although it is nothing fancy.