The Reliability Analysis of the Chinese Version of Speech Intelligibility Rate (SIR)

VernacularTitle:中文版言语可懂度分级标准的建立及其信度检验
Author: Yu WANG ; Tao PAN ; Si MI ; Furong MA
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Speech intelligibility; Hearing disordor; Children; Reliability
From: Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology 2013;(5):465-468
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To discuss the application of Chinese version of Speech intelligibility rating (SIR) in e-valuating the speech intelligibility of Chinese children with hearing disorder ,and analyze its scorer reliability .Meth-ods 50 children with cochlear implants or hearing aids were interviewed using SRI Chinese version .Each child was rated by a parent and a speech and language therapist .The reliability of scores was analyzed with Spearman correla-tion coefficient ,Kendall's coefficient of concordance and Kappa coefficient .Results The complete agreement was foud in 34 cases(68% ) ,with a disagreement of one category in 14 cases(28% ) ,and a disagreement of 2 categories was found in 2 cases (4% ) .Spearman correlation coefficient was 0 .885 ,Kendall's coefficient of concordance was 0 .801 ,Kappa coeffi-cient was 0 .593 ,the result was statistically significant (P<0 .001) .Conclusion SRI Chinese version has good reliability and is helpful in evaluating Chinese speech producing ability of children with hearing disorder in everyday life .