Translation into Brazilian Portuguese and transcultural adaptation of the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale 3.5.
Dhébora Heloísa Nascimento Dos Santos, Ivonaldo Leidson Barbosa Lima, Leonardo Wanderley Lopes
PMID 37403877WHAT IT FOUND
A Brazilian Portuguese version of the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale was translated and adapted with high agreement among 18 speech therapists.
It is a rating sheet for observing apraxia features, and it was not tested here for diagnosing patients.
Key findings
01The ASRS 3.5 was translated into Brazilian Portuguese and cross-culturally adapted, producing a final version.
02Eighteen speech therapists rated the translated items, and agreement measures for individual items ranged from 0.83 to 0.94.
03Individual item relevance scores were 0.89 or higher, and feasibility scores were 0.83 or higher. The overall relevance score was 0.97 and the overall feasibility score was 0.94.
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What it does not show
The study tested only translation and cross-cultural adaptation, not diagnostic accuracy in patients. Eighteen speech therapists were recruited through social media, so the judges may not represent all clinicians. The paper says validation will continue from the translated version, so the scale is not fully validated here. The original diagnostic accuracy evidence for the ASRS 3.5 comes from a separate study, not from the Brazilian adaptation reported here.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that the Brazilian Portuguese ASRS 3.5 accurately diagnoses speech apraxia in patients. The study only translated and adapted the scale and asked 18 speech therapists to rate item relevance and feasibility; no patient diagnostic accuracy was tested.