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The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS; McLeod, Harrison, & McCormack, 2012), was developed as a parent-rated measure of children's intelligibility when speaking with people of varying levels of familiarity and authority. The 7-item ICS asks parents to think about their child’s speech intelligibility over the past month and identify the degree to which they (themselves) and the six other types of communication partners understood the study child on a 5-point Likert scale. The sample tested included children from Australian preschools and child care centers who were reported by parents and teachers as having difficulty talking and making speech sounds. Speech skills of the sample were assessed with the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (Dodd, et al., 2002) and parents completed the ICS. Factor analysis confirmed the internal consistency of the ICS items; therefore, ratings were averaged to form …