Content validation of the Adapted Cycles Intervention Program (PROCICLOS-A) for children with Speech Sound Disorder - Activities.
Carolina Kuntz Ayub, Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner
PMID 41670120WHAT IT FOUND
Expert judges rated PROCICLOS-A activities appropriate for children with speech sound disorder.
This checks content only; it does not show the activities improve speech.
Key findings
01Twenty speech-language-hearing expert judges completed the activities validation form.
02For all activities, the 'I totally agree' response ranged from 70% to 100%.
03The overall agreement among the 20 expert judges on the activities was reported as moderate.
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What it does not show
Participants were expert judges, not children, and the paper reports no child outcomes. The study reports content validation, not efficacy or effectiveness outcomes. The overall agreement was classified as moderate by the paper, and some activities lowered the agreement index. The paper's conclusion describes the agreement as good, although the reported AC1 value is classified as moderate. Judges were speech-language-hearing pathologists with master's or doctoral-level experience in phonological SSD, so the ratings may not reflect all clinicians.
Declared interests
The study was funded by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). The supplied text does not report author conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that PROCICLOS-A improves children's speech. This paper reports expert agreement that activities are appropriate, not child outcomes. It mentions implementation and efficacy studies underway or parallel, but it does not report their results.
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