General Guidelines Regarding Transcription

1. Transcribe into the template by making a copy of the template (make sure to turn off spell check so you can note paraphasias and word fragments without it auto-correcting). Make sure to read the rules on utterance segmentation, paraphasias, fillers, fragments, and unintelligible words.
2. After *PAR: and the text it needs to be a TAB (so it's the larger spacing that needs to be present). Between *PAR: and the text there needs to be a TAB (so it's the larger spacing that needs to be present).Do not leave a space between *PAR: and the text.
3. Only transcribe the participant's utterances
  1. For VISTA script probes, start after the clinician's probe phrase, "Tell me about [topic of script]."
  2. For discourse samples, start after the clinician's instructions to talk about what they see in the picture/talk about a personal event.
4. Transcribe EVERYTHING they say, including fillers such as "uh" or "er" and any word fragments or false starts they make. This can mean listening to the clip a couple of times.
5. If the participant makes a comment about the task, or a tangential comment at the beginning or end of the probe, omit that from the transcription.
  1. If the participant is clearly talking about something other than the topic in the middle of the probe such as "my dog won't stop barking," then omit that from the transcription.
  2. If the participant restates the topic of the probe, (e.g. Clinician: "Tell me about your family." Participant: "My family. I was born in…") omit the restatement (in this example the transcription would start: "I was born in…"). Otherwise, if there are somewhat tangential, brief comments in the middle of the probe, include them.
  3. Examples of comments to omit at beginning and end:
    1. this is hard.
    2. that's all I remember.
    3. Done.

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General Guidelines Regarding Transcription

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