TABLE 7.

Interrater Reliability for NA Samples: Kappas, Strength of Agreement, and Mean % Agreement Rating 1 and Rating 2

Parameter	Rating 1			Rating 2
	Kappa	Strength of Agreement*	M % Agreement	Kappa	Strength of Agreement	M % Agreement
Intelligibility	.29	Fair	64	.28	Fair	48
Voice	.10	Poor	71	.18	Poor	69
Hypernasality	.71	Good	40	.70	Good	49
Hyponasality	.39	Fair	73	.67	Good	70
Audible nasal emission	.71	Good	71	.53	Moderate	69
Anterior oral CSCs	.45	Moderate	47	.38	Fair	49
Posterior oral CSCs	.06	Poor	79	.00	Poor	78
Nonoral CSCs	.78	Good	83	.60	Moderate	71
Passive CSCs	.55	Moderate	59	.72	Good	76
Recommend STx†	.26	Fair	81	.21	Fair	77
Recommend VPF Eval†	.69	Good	78	.63	Good	80

^*Altman (1991).

^†STx = speech intervention; VPF Eval = velopharyngeal function evaluation.