Thesis
Web-based telerehabilitation assessment of receptive language
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102872
Abstract
Telerehabilitation has the potential to extend services to unreached populations in speech-language pathology. Evidence-based research is needed for various technologies, assessment tools, disorders, ages and populations to give precedence to assessment via telerehabilitation. This study's purpose was to demonstrate reliability of a unique web-based telerehabilitation method for assessing children's receptive language abilities. Thirty-four children between the ages of 4 and 13 were given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Fourth Edition via two methods, traditional paper assessment and a version available as a web page, in a counterbalanced design. The web-based version was accessed in home settings from a variety of computers and web browsers. It administered all items with scanned images and recorded audio before storing the automatically calculated scores on a secure server. The administrator present for the web-based assessment gave no input; they simply clicked on the child's gestured or verbalized answer. No significant difference was found between the traditional method and the web-based version for time taken, raw score, or standard score. A high level of correlation was found between the two methods for raw scores and standard scores. The results of this study validate the use of a web-based standardized assessment tool for assessment of childhood receptive language via telerehabilitation. This research also gives precedence for further investigation into web-based methods of telerehabilitation assessment in speech-language pathology.
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- Title
- Web-based telerehabilitation assessment of receptive language
- Creators
- Alyssa Anderson
- Contributors
- Mark VanDam (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525167501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis