The Szenario-Kids: Psychometric Properties of a Novel, Participation-Oriented Language Assessment as Determined in Children and Youth without Communication Deficits

Autor/inn/en	Plum, Lea; van der Meulen, Ineke; Krzok, Franziska; Overbeck, Rena; van de Sandt-Koenderman, W. Mieke E; Willmes, Klaus; Binkofski, Ferdinand; Bruehl, Stefanie
Titel	The Szenario-Kids: Psychometric Properties of a Novel, Participation-Oriented Language Assessment as Determined in Children and Youth without Communication Deficits
Quelle	In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 38 (2022) 3, S.254-275 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Plum, Lea)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-6590
DOI	10.1177/02656590221111346
Schlagwörter	Aphasia; Language Impairments; Clinical Diagnosis; Communication Disorders; Psychometrics; Language Tests; German; Diagnostic Tests; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Foreign Countries; Elementary Secondary Education; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Kommunikationsstörung; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Language test; Sprachtest; Deutscher; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Background: Creating a holistic picture of children and youth who suffer from acquired aphasia or another (developmental) language disorders is very difficult due to missing diagnostic instruments covering participation. Szenario-Kids is a new diagnostic instrument to measure multimodal communication abilities in everyday life situations of children and youth aged 6 to 16 years. Aims: We aimed to examine feasibility and psychometric properties of the model-based Szenario-Kids in the healthy population, to build the basis for later test evaluation in the language-impaired patient group. Method: Szenario-Kids was administered to n = 57 children and youth without communication deficits (mean age 9.16 years; German as native language). The diagnostic instrument was presented twice within two weeks, complemented by standardized diagnostic instruments to cover all communication modalities and enable correlation of performance between tests. Results: Data analysis showed good practicability, satisfying parallelism of test versions A and B (p = 0.098-0.845), acceptable to excellent reliability (Cronbach's [alpha] = 0.781-0.920) and high interrater reliability (ICC = 0.733-0.960), very strong test-retest correlation (r = 0.736-0.893) and moderate to strong concurrent validity (r = -0.475-0.611; p [less than or equal to] 0.01). Conclusions: The analysis of feasibility and psychometric properties revealed promising results for the group without communication deficits. Neurolinguistic underpinnings can be explained within our Multimodal Communication Model (MCM). Thus, the evaluation of Szenario-Kids in language-impaired children and youth is a next step. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01