This study sought to address limitations in the current literature by studying the effects of years of clinical experience on the variability and reliability of ratings using the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) (Kempster et al., 2009). This study compared the ratings of a group of inexperienced speech-language pathologists to those of a group of experienced speech-language pathologists with extensive background in voice disorders. This study used voice recordings of non-therapy seeking individuals to provide non-pathological voice samples for the two groups of clinicians to rate. This was done to address the paucity of research focusing on the reliability of a subset range of the CAPE-V. It was hypothesized that the inexperienced clinician will demonstrate greater variability and less reliability in using the CAPE-V to rate non-pathological voices. The resulting data supports these hypotheses generally, though inferential statistics were ineffective methods of analysis due to limitations of study.
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