You have indicated that you are the parent or primary caregiver of a young child who stutters or who may stutter (ages 2 to 6), 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 young children who stutter consists of two parts:
- 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 two steps to participate in the study:
Step 1: Complete Your Conversational Partner Response Form
First, please complete your conversational partner response form. This form asks about your perspectives on your young child's stuttering. 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 this code, because you will need it for Step 2. Completing the form takes approximately 20 minutes in total.
Response Form for Parents of Young Children (Ages 2 to 6)
Step 2: Invite Others to Complete Their Conversational Partner Response Forms
Second, please invite your child'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.
