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Instrument Reviewers

Initial review completed by University of Illinois at Chicago MS in Occupational Therapy students Raveena Kingra, Rikki Ostrowski, & Amalia Zeidman.

Considerations

Hemmingsson, Kottorp, and Bernspang (2004) suggest adding more difficult items to the SSI in order to improve the psychometric properties. Adding more challenging items would increase the ability of the assessment to separate people and be more precise in measuring the student-environment fit. The authors also specify the need for testing the validity of the SSI among different cultures with larger samples.

The manual states practitioners can use the SSI with students who have physical disabilities and students who have cognitive disabilities even though the research has focused on student populations with physical disabilities (Hemmingsson et al., 2005). This assessment could introduce bias if students¡¯ perceptions do not accurately reflect environmental adaptations they might need. Moreover, some of the items may not apply to different cultures (e.g. going on field trips, doing sports activities), and published research has only focused on students from Sweden. 

Bibliography

Hemmingsson, H. & Borell, L. (1996). The development of an assessment of adjustment needs in the school setting for use with physically disabled students. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 3, 156-162.

Hemmingsson, H., Egilson, S., Oshrat, H., & Kielhofner, G. (2005). The School Setting Interview: SSI version 3.0. Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists.

Hemmingsson, H., Kottorp, A., & Bernspang, B. (2004). Validity of the School Setting Interview: An assessment of the student-environment fit. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 11, 171-178.