Paediatric Automatic Phonological Analysis Tools (APAT)

Saraiva, Daniela; Lousada, Marisa; Hall, Andreia; Jesus, Luis M. T.

doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.4004730.v1

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Paediatric Automatic Phonological Analysis Tools (APAT)

journal contribution

posted on 2016-10-11, 10:28 authored by Daniela Saraiva, Marisa Lousada, Andreia Hall, Luis M. T. Jesus

Purpose: To develop the pediatric Automatic Phonological Analysis Tools (APAT) and to estimate inter and intrajudge reliability, content validity, and concurrent validity.

Method: The APAT were constructed using Excel spreadsheets with formulas. The tools were presented to an expert panel for content validation. The corpus used in the Portuguese standardized test Teste Fonético-Fonológico – ALPE produced by 24 children with phonological delay or phonological disorder was recorded, transcribed, and then inserted into the APAT. Reliability and validity of APAT were analyzed.

Results: The APAT present strong inter- and intrajudge reliability (>97%). The content validity was also analyzed (ICC = 0.71), and concurrent validity revealed strong correlations between computerized and manual (traditional) methods.

Conclusions: The development of these tools contributes to fill existing gaps in clinical practice and research, since previously there were no valid and reliable tools/instruments for automatic phonological analysis, which allowed the analysis of different corpora.