Early Identification of Stuttering Risk Level: A Brazilian Protocol Proposal

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Valuable, Promising Contribution

From: Gunars Neiders neiders@halcyon.com
Date: 10/10/00
Time: 8:37:06 PM
Remote Name: 12.13.226.13

Comments

Professor Andrade,

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your paper and made a copy in order to revisit some of the references.

As you say, " Screenings are by definition simple procedures; easy to use; low in cost and have a good discriminating response." And this indeed appears to cover most of the topics mentioned in the literature and, in my opinion, is an excellent start.

I would like you to answer a couple questions for me:

1) What has been your experience in the consistency of this screening with respect to different administrators of the instrument. Specifically, have you studied if after an initial training period different persons administering this instrument come up with the same scores (within a given tolerance)?.

2) Have you instituted any feedback mechanism to evaluate after the fact if, indeed, the "correct" (useful) outcomes were provided by this instrument?

3) Are you using the feedback from your experience to provide weighting factors for each of the fifteen items? (For example, child's reaction (item 13) may have to be scaled with a weighting factor of 1.5).

Hopefully my questions have been clearly stated.

Respectfully,

Gunars Neiders


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