num_pages: 200
description: The Behavior Assessment Batter, or BAB, is a multi-dimensional set of inter-related, evidence-based, self-report tests that provide normative data for children between the ages of six and fifteen. The Battery has evolved and been refined over many years and has been used with thousands of clients all over the world. The test procedures include: the Speech Situation Checklist (SSC), which is a means of evaluating a child's emotional reaction to and speech disruption in a range of speech situations; the Behavior Checklist (BCL), which makes apparent the particular coping responses that a child uses to deal with dysfluency; and the Communication Attitude Test (CAT), which measures a child's attitude about his or her speech. While designed for use with children who stutter, the CAT is also an effective measure of communication attitude in patients with other voice and speech difficulties. These self-report test procedures provide the speech pathologist, teacher, pyscho- and neurolinguist, clinical and educational psychologist and pediatrician with a multi-dimensional view of how a child is affected by what he or she feels, reacts to and thinks about speech. Through the eyes of the child whose fluency is problematic, the BAB test procedures provide a picture of the speech-related aspects of the child's world that only the child can validly supply. By evaluating a child's overall score on the SSC, BCL and CAT and his or her reaction to the particular items that make up these procedures, clinicians can determine the most successful strategies and tactics of therapy. This battery serves to shape therapy and it provides the therapist with clear-cut indications of a child's speech-associated strengths and weaknesses and his or her particular needs.
language: English
title: The Behavior Assessment Battery for School-Age Children Who Stutter
titlecomplete: The Behavior Assessment Battery for School-Age Children Who Stutter
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publisher: Plural Publishing, Inc.