Design of an instrument to analysis the competences of the speech therapist and the specialist teacher in hearing and language

Abstract

The present study was carried out by the inconsistences found on the competences of the speech therapist and the specialist teacher in hearing and language (AL) and the difficulty to assess this phenomenon, arising the need to delimit the diferences between both, as well as to know what they understood education professionals on this issue. Therefore, the aim of this investigation was the design and implementation of a questionnaire to analyze the profiles of the speech therapist and the AL. The questionnaire was provided to a total of 104 people belonging to eight public and subsidized schools, an early care center, an association and a private center; all of them developed their professional work in the municipality of Totana (Murcia, Spain). This instrument had a total of 29 closed items being carried our validation. After the administration and data collection, the results were evaluated through the statistical program SPSS, through which an evaluation of the item-total correlation, the reliability coefficient and the empirical validation through the correlations were performed. In agreement with results, the analyzed group lacks notions about the differences of these degrees and consider them as similar professions.