Psychometric properties of MyCommunication-Children: an item bank for measuring communicative participation in children with speech, language, voice disorders or hearing loss
Eline Alons, Margreet Roelien Luinge, Ellen Gerrits, Nicole Ter Wal, Lizet Van Ewijk, Benjamin Schalet, Caroline Barbara Terwee · 2026
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Eline Alons leads a seven-author team testing MyCommunication-Children, a questionnaire bank built to measure how well children take part in everyday communication. The children involved had speech, language, or voice disorders, or hearing loss. Earlier tools for adults did not fit children's lives, and parent reports cannot capture a child's own view.
In the 2026 study, 310 children answered all 49 draft items plus comparison questionnaires. Careful item reduction removed 17 items, and factor analysis supported one underlying trait. Two short forms emerged, one with 10 items for all settings and one with 9 items for school. Reliability was high for the full bank, giving clinicians a child-reported outcome measure.
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| CREATOR | Eline Alons, Margreet Roelien Luinge, Ellen Gerrits, Nicole Ter Wal, Lizet Van Ewijk, Benjamin Schalet, Caroline Barbara Terwee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64357 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |