You have indicated that you are the parent or primary caregiver of a child or teen who stutters (ages 7 to 17), and you are interested in our research study on the Assessment of Multiple Perspectives on Stuttered Speech™ (AMPSS) Protocol. Thank you for helping us develop this new assessment.
The AMPSS study protocol for children and teens (Ages 7 to 17) consists of three parts:
- a speaker response form, to be completed by you and your child or teen, with your guidance
- a conversational partner response form for parents and primary caregivers, to be completed by you
- a conversational partner response form for others, to be completed by other caregivers, teachers, and especially speech-language pathologists
Please follow these three steps to participate in the study:
Step 1: Guide Your Child or Teen as they Complete the Speaker Response Form
The Speaker Response Form describes the AMPSS protocol and obtains consent for you and your child or teen to participate. Please complete the first part of the form yourself. Then, support your child or teen as they complete the second part of the form, which asks about their perceptions and experiences. As part of completing this form, you will create a unique speaker confidentiality code that allows us to keep track of data without identifying participants by name. Please remember the code, because you will need it for Steps 2 and 3. Completing the form takes approximately 20 minutes in total.
Response Form for Children and Teens (ages 7 to 17)
Step 2: Complete Your Conversational Partner Response Form
Next, you will complete your conversational partner response form. This form asks the same questions as the speaker response form, but they are based on your perspectives. You will need the unique speaker confidentiality code that you created in Step 1, so that we can link your data to your child's or teen's form while maintaining confidentiality. Completing this form also takes approximately 20 minutes in total.
Response Form for Parents and Primary Caregivers of Children and Teens (ages 7 to 17)
Step 3: Invite Others to Complete Their Conversational Partner Response Forms
Finally, please invite your child's or teen's other caregivers, teachers, and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to complete their conversational partner response forms. The information that we gain from these conversational partners provides important perspectives about your child's speech and communication, so please do not skip this step. The conversational partners will access the form through the main study website, shown below. Be sure to give them the unique speaker confidentiality code that you created in Step 1. This allows us to link your data to theirs in our analyses while maintaining confidentiality. No one other than the authors of the AMPSS protocol (J. Scott Yaruss & Nina Reeves) will have access to any of the data collected in this study.
