A trial speech screening test for school entrants

Abstract

An objective, low-cost means of screening school entrant children for speech disorders was designed, and speech therapists evaluated the doctors' screening results. In a field trial comprising 438 children, an accuracy rate of 92% was reported, with a referral rate by doctors of 14%, and speech therapists subsequently observing or treating 10%. The trial showed also the effects on accuracy rates of setting different pass levels. © 1981, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.