Keywords
CAPE-V, Consensus Auditory Perception Evaluation of Voice, Roughness, Breathiness, Strain, Pitch, Loudness
Abstract
Rating scales are commonly used to study voice quality. The purpose of this study was to examine inter-rater reliability/agreement of graduate student clinicians with differing levels of experience in rating voice perception. The Consensus Auditory Perception Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) was used to asses 1.) overall severity, 2.) roughness, 3.) breathiness, 4.) strain, 5.) pitch and 6.) loudness from a sample of pediatric voices. Twenty-four graduate clinicians who had completed a graduate level course in voice disorders participated in the study. Twelve of the participants were randomly selected to complete a perceptual training course prior to the evaluation session. Voice samples included 10 disordered and 2 normal voices from a population of children age 3-10 years old. The 12 voice samples were randomly repeated 3 times. Results of analysis of variance indicated that the groups significantly differed in their severity rating of the perceptual indices, suggesting that training affected the participants' judgment of severity. Additionally, variability was reduced as a function of training. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient's revealed a moderate to strong relationship for all of the perceptual indices suggesting that regardless of training participants have an implicit understanding of normal versus disordered voice samples.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2005
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Hoffman Ruddy, Bari
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Health and Public Affairs
Department
Communicative Disorders
Degree Program
Communicative Disorders
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0000699
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000699
Language
English
Release Date
August 2005
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Pitts, Teresa Elizabeth, "Reliability Of The Concensus Auditory-perceptual Evaluation Of Voice On Pediatric Voices With Trained And Untrained Listeners" (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 488.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/488