Clinical Strategies for Sampling Word Recognition Performance

Conclusions A 25-word list produces unacceptably low precision for making clinical decisions. This finding holds in both single and multiple 25-word lists, as in a search for PB max. A table is provided, giving estimates of 95% critical ranges for successive presentations of a 50-word list analyzed by the number of phonemes correctly identified.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research