Taking Language Samples Home: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity of Child Language Samples Conducted Remotely With Video Chat Versus In-Person

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 63; no. 12; pp. 3982 - 3990
• Main Authors: Manning, Brittany L., Harpole, Alexandra, Harriott, Emily M., Postolowicz, Kamila, Norton, Elizabeth S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Auditory Evaluation; Between-subjects design; Chat; Child Language; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Comparative analysis; COVID-19; Demographic aspects; Expressive Language; Families & family life; Family (Sociological Unit); Feasibility Studies; Female; Humans; Infant; Intelligibility; Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal communication in children; Interrater Reliability; Language; Language Disorders - diagnosis; Language Tests - standards; Language usage; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Mean length of utterance; Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Outcome Measures; Pandemics; Parent Child Relationship; Parent-child relations; Raw Scores; Reliability; Reproducibility of Results; Research Methodology; Researchers; Sampling; SARS-CoV-2; Scoring; Semantics; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomic status; Software; Speech; Speech Acts; Speech Communication; Speech Intelligibility; Speech Language Pathology; Speech perception in children; Speech Production Measurement - methods; Speech Production Measurement - standards; Statistical sampling; Statistics; Syntax; Telemedicine; Telemedicine - methods; Telemedicine - standards; Toddlers; Transcription; Urban Areas; Validity; Video Technology; Videoconferencing; United States

Purpose: There has been increased interest in using telepractice for involving more diverse children in research and clinical services, as well as when in-person assessment is challenging, such as during COVID-19. Little is known, however, about the feasibility, reliability, and validity of language...