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The Reliability of Expert Diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

Purpose: The current standard for clinical diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is expert clinician judgment. The psychometric properties of this standard are not well understood; however, they are important for improving clinical diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to determine the ex...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; pp. 3309 - 3327
Main Authors: Murray, Elizabeth, Velleman, Shelley, Preston, Jonathan L., Heard, Robert, Shibu, Akhila, McCabe, Patricia
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2024 Supplement
Subjects:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Consensus (Social sciences)
Medical personnel
Decision making
Psychometrics
Children
Neurologic examination
Speech therapists
Research funding
Differential diagnosis
Research evaluation
Questionnaires
Diagnosis
Diagnosis of developmental disabilities
Longitudinal method
Speech evaluation
Attitudes of medical personnel
Intraclass correlation
Statistics
Expertise
Confidence intervals
Data analysis software
Speech apraxia
Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics)
Video recording
Inter-observer reliability
Standards
Symptoms
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