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Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Scale of Auditory Behaviors Questionnaire
- Source :
- Language, speech, and hearing services in schools. 50(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- PurposeChildren with (central) auditory processing disorder [(C)APD] exhibit many cognitive difficulties and receive negative psychosocial consequences from their disorder. Diagnosis of (C)APD relies on multidisciplinary assessment, including psychological testing. There is a strong need for valid and reliable questionnaires to identify children who are at risk of (C)APD. This work aims to establish the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Scale of Auditory Behaviors (SAB;Domitz & Schow, 2000;Krzeszewska & Kurkowski, 2015;Miranda, Bruera, & Serra 2016;Musiek & Chermak, 2007;Nunes et al., 2013) as a screening tool in children.MethodThe SAB was administered to parents of 326 children (152 girls and 174 boys) aged from 6 to 12 years (M= 8.24,SD= 1.56). The questionnaire consists of 12 items related to various symptoms of (C)APD and allows the frequency of particular behaviors to be assessed. In addition, the questionnaire Children's Home Inventory for Listening Difficulties was administered to parents, and 3 other psychoacoustic behavioral tests (Frequency Pattern Test, Duration Pattern Test, Dichotic Digit Test;Czajka et al., 2012) were conducted on the children to evaluate their auditory abilities.ResultsThe Polish version of SAB demonstrated high internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .93), confirmed by interitem correlations. Intraclass correlation, which was used to determine reproducibility, was .95. There were also significant and positive relationships, ranging fromr= .17 to .68, between the SAB score and scores of other measures, indicating convergent validity of the tool. Girls demonstrated higher SAB scores than boys (p< .05); however, age was not statistically significant. A ceiling effect was detected, but no floor effect.ConclusionsResults of psychometric and statistical analyses suggest the Polish version of SAB appears to be a valid and reliable questionnaire to evaluate symptoms of (C)APD in children, especially as a screening tool.
- Subjects :
- Auditory perception
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male
Parents
Linguistics and Language
medicine.medical_specialty
Speech-Language Pathology
Psychometrics
Test validity
Audiology
Speech Therapy
Language and Linguistics
030507 speech-language pathology & audiology
03 medical and health sciences
Speech and Hearing
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Psychological testing
Language Development Disorders
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Child
Language
Reproducibility of Results
Cognition
Auditory processing disorder
medicine.disease
Cross-cultural studies
Auditory Perception
Female
Poland
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Psychosocial
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15589129
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....161179a6c0e378e404d91e82d1cac252