Translation, assessment and deployment of stuttering instruments into different languages: Comments arising from Bakhtiar et al., Investigation of the reliability of the SSI-3 for preschool Persian- speaking children who stutter [J. Fluency Disord. 35 (2010) 87-91]

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-248

  Karimi, Hamid ^a   Nilipour, Reza ^b   Shafiei, Bijan ^a   Howell, Peter ^c  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LETTER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STUTTERING; STUTTERING SEVERITY INSTRUMENT VERSION 3 SCORE; VALIDITY;

COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING;

EID: 82355169898     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: 1873801X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2011.05.001     Document Type: Letter

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