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Preliminary study of a Digital Brazilian Portuguese Speech Assessment Instrument: validity and reliability of imitation and naming tasks.

Eduarda Pinheiro Oliveira, Dara da Silva Oliveira, Isabel da Rosa Alvaro, Letícia Bitencourt Uberti, Márcia Keske-Soares, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin

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Eduarda Pinheiro OliveiraPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6391-8028
Dara da Silva OliveiraPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-9647-9691
Isabel da Rosa AlvaroPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-1149-6932
Letícia Bitencourt UbertiPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-652X
Márcia Keske-SoaresPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5678-8429
Karina Carlesso PagliarinPrograma de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Santa Maria (RS), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-1396

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purposeTo evaluate the psychometric properties of the naming and imitation tasks of the Digital Speech Assessment Instrument.

methodsForty-five Brazilian Portuguese (BP)-speaking children aged 4 to 9 years, with and without Phonological Disorder (PD) participated in the study. Construct validity was verified by convergent validity, criterion validity was analyzed using Student's t-test for independent samples, and inter-rater reliability was assessed.

resultsThe naming task demonstrated satisfactory construct validity. In the imitation task, correlations ranged from moderate to nearly perfect. Both tasks discriminated well between groups, with children with PD presenting consistently lower scores. Inter-rater agreement was substantial to nearly perfect.

conclusionThe results indicate that the naming and imitation tasks of the Digital Speech Assessment Instrument are valid and reliable.

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Speech Production MeasurementSpeech Sound DisorderBrazilChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMalePsychometricsReproducibility of Results

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