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This study clarifies speech intelligibility and comprehensibility in speech disorders, defining assessment methods for better clinical and research communication. Clearer definitions improve patient care and research translation.

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Area of Science:

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Linguistics
  • Audiology

Background:

  • Consensus on terminology and speech measures for intelligibility and comprehensibility in speech disorders is lacking.
  • Current assessment methods are both perceptual and instrumental, but definitions remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish a consensual definition of speech intelligibility and comprehensibility.
  • To identify assessment methods appropriate for each concept in speech disorders.

Main Methods:

  • A three-round modified Delphi consensus study involving 40 international experts.
  • Experts included clinicians, linguists, and computer scientists specializing in speech disorders.

Main Results:

  • Intelligibility is defined as acoustic-phonetic decoding, while comprehensibility relates to message meaning reconstruction.
  • Distinct assessment tasks are specified: unpredictable material for intelligibility, and meaning/context-related tasks for comprehensibility.

Conclusions:

  • This consensus provides a clearer understanding of intelligibility and comprehensibility in speech disorders.
  • Disambiguated terminology enhances professional communication, improving patient assessment, care, and research translation.
  • Defined assessment tasks aid in standardizing speech disorder evaluation.