Journal article
Feasibility and Preliminary Data for a Training Protocol and Perceptual Rating Scale of Linguistic Conversation Measures in Aphasia
American journal of speech-language pathology, Vol.34(6S), pp.3789-3800
12/2025
DOI: 10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00420
PMID: 40774259
Abstract
Speech-language pathologists and people with aphasia recognize the importance of social conversation (Wallace et al., 2017; Worrall et al., 2011). However, linguistic analysis of conversation is time intensive and difficult to clinically implement. Perceptual rating scales are a potential method that could increase the clinical feasibility of evaluating linguistic aspects of conversation. In this study, a perceptual training and rating protocol were created, and validity, reliability, and rater confidence were explored.
A protocol was developed to train four linguistic measures of conversation and practice perceptual ratings of those measures. The four measures included
, percent utterances with subject + verb structure (
),
, and
. Thirteen research assistants (RAs) completed the training and then five test ratings in which they rated 3-min conversation samples on the four linguistic measures. RAs also rated their confidence and provided feedback on the training.
Trained RAs rated the four linguistic measures within 20% of the established utterance-by-utterance lab-coded values on average, but with variable performance on individual conversations.
and
demonstrated good interrater reliability based on intraclass correlation coefficients. A significant weak negative correlation was found between RA rating confidence and the difference between coded values and perceptual ratings for
and
.
These findings suggest that further development and refinement are required before this training procedure can be implemented in a clinical setting. Valuable insight was gained that will help refine the training for future research.
https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.29594606.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Feasibility and Preliminary Data for a Training Protocol and Perceptual Rating Scale of Linguistic Conversation Measures in Aphasia
- Creators
- Jessica Obermeyer - University of North Carolina at GreensboroMarion C Leaman - University of Kansas Medical CenterJacob J Oleson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of speech-language pathology, Vol.34(6S), pp.3789-3800
- DOI
- 10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00420
- PMID
- 40774259
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Speech Lang Pathol
- ISSN
- 1558-9110
- eISSN
- 1558-9110
- Publisher
- AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 08/07/2025
- Date published
- 12/2025
- Academic Unit
- Biostatistics; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984945085502771
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