Congratulations to the team from Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison who have won the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing - Speech Editor's Award for the following paper:
Soriano, J. U., Mahr, T. J., Rathouz, P. J., & Hustad, K. C. (2025). Characterizing the relationship between the Intelligibility in Context Scale and transcription intelligibility in typically developing English-speaking children between ages 2;6 and 9;11. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 34(5), 2877-2892. https://doi.org/doi:10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00530
The award was announced here: https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/07/2026-asha-journals-awards/
We are thrilled to see the rigor of our Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) being applied in such a robust way.
- ICS: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments/ics
- Original manuscript: McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., & McCormack, J. (2012). Intelligibility in Context Scale: Validity and reliability of a subjective rating measure. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 648–656. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0130)