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Validity and reliability of logopedic assessments of tongue function
Juliane Mehnert1, Helga Landau, Helmut Orawa
1Department of Orthodontics, Dentofacial Orthopedics and Pedodontics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Objective:
This study investigated the validity and reliability of logopedic assessments of tongue function.
Materials And Methods:
At two practices for myofunctional therapy, diagnosis of tongue dysfunction according to Kittel (1984, 1996, 2008) was carried out in 52 subjects (aged 5 to 63 years) by three speech pathologists at each practice.
Results:
The agreement of the logopedic assessments was mostly satisfactory at one of the two practices but was unsatisfactory in most cases at the other practice.
Conclusion:
The inconsistent agreement between the logopedic assessments does not permit a definitive statement about the actual clinical situation.
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