Subject: UCL Psychology Stuttering Survey
From: steve@banana.psychol.ucl.ac.uk (Steve Davis)
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:44:15 +0100

Dear colleague,

We are currently working on a project to identify and assess
a variety of measures for the diagnosis and prognosis of child
stutterers (ie does a child stutter, and if so, is treatment
likely to be successful?). Our preliminary investigations have 
identified 10 measures that may be important.

We are writing to you to ask if you would be willing to take
a look at these measures and rank them in order of importance,
both for diagnosis and for prognosis. If there are any others
which you think should be included, please add them in the space
at the end.

When you have finished, we would be grateful if you would return 
your responses to me (steve@banana.psychol.ucl.ac.uk). The easiest 
thing would probably be to include the whole of this message in 
your reply and just fill in the blanks.

Here is a brief description of the measures:

CLIENT ATTITUDE - measures of affective, behavioural and cognitive 
responses to speech situations.

INTELLECTUAL & SOCIAL SKILLS - a general picture of the childs 
performance in and out of school, measures of social, cognitive 
and physical competence. 

FAMILY HISTORY OF STUTTERING (GENETICS) - frequency score of 
stuttering occurrences in 1st., 2nd. and 3rd. degree relatives. 

CEREBRAL DOMINANCE - an average handedness score derived from a 
28 item questionnaire. 

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT - standardised score from a picture based 
vocabulary test. 

PARENTAL ATTITUDE - measure from a 45 item attitude inventory.

GENERAL HEALTH - score from an adapted general health questionnaire. 

MOTOR SKILLS - motor co-ordination index from a balance task with 
a selective choice reaction time task.

AUDITORY SKILLS - score from a computer generated test measuring  
word discrimination threshold. 

SPEECH SCORES - stuttering frequency scores from computer based 
psychometric procedures.


Please rank the measures 1 - 10 (where 1 = most important and
10 = least important).

                                 DIAGNOSIS             PROGNOSIS

CLIENT ATTITUDE                   [     ]               [     ] 
      
INTELLECTUAL & SOCIAL SKILLS      [     ]               [     ]

FAMILY HISTORY (GENETICS)         [     ]               [     ]

CEREBRAL DOMINANCE                [     ]               [     ]

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT              [     ]               [     ]

PARENTAL ATTITUDE                 [     ]               [     ]

GENERAL HEALTH                    [     ]               [     ]

MOTOR SKILLS                      [     ]               [     ]

AUDITORY SKILLS                   [     ]               [     ]  

SPEECH SCORES                     [     ]               [     ] 
             
                           
If there is a measure that you consider to be important, that is not 
listed above, please indicate in the space provided below, together 
with position in rank. e.g. If new measure is ranked between the third 
and fourth in the above list, rank it 3-4. If new measure is more
important than all those in the list, rank it 0-1 etc etc.

MEASURE:

RANK                  (DIAGNOSIS) [     ]   (PROGNOSIS) [     ] 

Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey. 
We will keep you updated on the progress of our research.

Yours,

Steve Davis (in collaboration with Peter Howell)