The Behavior Assessment Battery for School-Aged Children Who Stutter (BAB) is designed to provide valid and reliable measures in regard to a child’s affective, behavioral, and cognitive reactions to his or her speech.  There are three tests to this assessment battery which include the Speech Situation Checklist, the Behavior Checklist, and the Communication Attitude Test.  Each test in this assessment battery is independently scored and is completed through a self-reported format to children 6-15 years of age.  Each self-reported test will entail a total score that can be interpreted by comparing it to the score of an average child who does not stutter.  A total test score which is 2 or more standard deviations (SD) above the average mean for that population would be considered atypical. 

Speech Situation Checklist:

Section I : Emotional Reaction is designed to measure the reported extent to which a child tends to experience negative feelings in a range of different speech situations.

Total Test Score:  

Average Mean for children who do not stutter: 74.5

Average Mean for children who do stutter: 89.04

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Section 2: Speech Disruption is designed to measure the reported likelihood that disfluent speech behaviors will occur in speech situations that are deemed stressful for children who stutter. 

Total Test Score:  

Average Mean for children who do not stutter: 80.47

Average Mean for children who do stutter: 97.73

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Section 3: Behavioral Checklist was designed to measure a child’s coping response to deal with the anticipation or occurrence of disfluency. 

Total Test Score: 

Average Mean for children who do not stutter:  5.78

Average Mean for children who do stutter: 12.52

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Section 4: Communication Attitude was designed to directly measure a child’s attitude in regard to their speech and their ability to communicate with others. 

Total Test Score:  

Average Mean for children who do not stutter:  6.38

Average Mean for children who do stutter: 16.83

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