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Clinician Bias in Evaluating Speech Proficiency
Author(s) -
MEITUS IRV J.,
RINGEL ROBERT L.,
HOUSE ARTHUR S.,
HOTCHKISS JOHN C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1973.tb01619.x
Subject(s) - psychology , clinical psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , medical education , medicine
Summary The effect of clinician bias in evaluating the speech of children was studied. Case presentations were made to 30 clinicians by means of videotape. Prior to evaluation, graduate‐student clinicians were exposed to fabricated case‐histories containing positive‐bias or negative‐bias factors, or to no case‐history information. The clinicians generated phonetic inventories, scaled judgments of articulatory proficiency, scaled prognoses, and scaled therapeutic judgments. The case‐history preconditions had little effect on the measured behaviour of the clinicians. Implications for clinical evaluative procedures are discussed.