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Validity and Reliability Study of the Turkish Version of Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six-34.
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Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research . Feb2024, Vol. 67 Issue 2, p586-594. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Purpose: Speech and language disorders can negatively affect preschool children’s communicative participation skills. Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six-34 (FOCUS-34) is a valid and reliable scale that evaluates communicative participation in preschool children with speech and language disorders. This study aimed to establish the Turkish version of FOCUS-34 (FOCUS-34-TR) and investigate its validity and reliability. Method: A total of 175 children with language disorders, speech sound disorders, and fluency disorders (aged 20-72 months) and their parents were included in the study. Parents were asked to complete the demographic information form, the FOCUS-34-TR scale, and the Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ-SE) Turkish version. The construct validity, convergent and divergent validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability of the scale were investigated. Results: The FOCUS-34-TR had high values for internal consistency (α = .97) and test-retest reliability (r = .95). The correlations between the FOCUS-34-TR total score and its subscales were between .77 and .90. A moderately significant negative correlation was found between the FOCUS-34-TR scale and the ASQ-SE. Conclusion: The Turkish version of FOCUS-34 is a valid and reliable scale that can be used in clinics and for research purposes to evaluate the communicative participation skills of Turkish-speaking preschool children with speech and language disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EXPERIMENTAL design
*STUTTERING
*STATISTICS
*STATISTICAL reliability
*RESEARCH methodology evaluation
*RESEARCH methodology
*SPEECH disorders
*ONE-way analysis of variance
*MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
*CRONBACH'S alpha
*PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
*T-test (Statistics)
*COMMUNICATION
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*DATA analysis
*LANGUAGE disorders
*CHILDREN
RESEARCH evaluation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10924388
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175404831
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00667