Speech production and deafness: implications of assessment

The Speech Intelligibility Rating Scale (SIR) rating widely used in the UK as a method of grading children’s level of intelligibility has been found to be reliable (Allen, Nikolopoulos, Dyar and O’Donoghue, 2001). Peng, Spencer and Tomblin, (2004) compared the “write down method” of scoring intelligibility with another 5 point ... ................
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