VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 3
Kyle Brouwer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP,
University of South Dakota, Kyle.brouwer@usd.edu
Monica Gordon-Pershey, Ed.D., CCC-SLP,
Cleveland State University
Introduction
Speech-language pathologists rely on high quality research and assessment
methods to provide evidence-based therapy to children with visual impairments
(VI). A major barrier to this endeavor is that no published standardized measures
of speech sound production have included children with VI. Ferrell (2014) and
Kesitkas (2009) suggested that reliable and valid educational assessments for
children with VI may be the exception rather than the norm. Although the clinical
use of a measure to test children who come from a population that is not
specifically represented in a test's standardization sample may pose some risks of
inaccuracy, doing so is often a clinical necessity. For these reasons, the present
study aims to address the lack of valid assessments of speech sound production in
children with VI.
Utilization of an Auditory-Based Assessment of Speech Sound
Production in Children with Visual Impairment