A speech discrimination test for use with young children, specifically preschool age children, was devised utilizing monosyllabic words as the stimulus items and a picture identification task as the response. The test was administered to subjects in three experimental groups: hearing impaired adults, hearing impaired children, and normal hearing preschool age children. The CID Auditory Test W-22 was also administered to the adult subjects.Results of the testing suggested that the picture test is a reliable and stable instrument for assessing speech discrimination ability in normal hearing and hearing impaired children over the age of five years. It appeared that the use of this test with children below five years of age should be with caution because of the variability in scores obtained for this age group. There were indications that further study is needed to collect normative data for normal hearing preschool age children to use as a basis for comparison of clinically obtained scores.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/181450 |
| Date | January 1976 |
| Creators | Wilson, Landa J. |
| Contributors | Hoops, Richard A. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 47, 27 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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