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Gross occupational exposure to noise has been demonstrated to cause hearing loss and the authors believe that occupational hearing loss in Saudi Arabia is a widespread problem. Strategies of noise assessment and control are introduced which may help improve the work environment.

Phonetically balanced mono and disyllabic Classical Arabic word lists were chosen to construct a Saudi Arabic speech test for children. These words were taken from children's stories. They were first evaluated by primary and pre-school children in the urban and rural areas of the Province and then divided in eight subgroups of 10 words each. The articulation curves obtained from the children with this test material are similar in course and value to that of the German language using similar speech-test material under the same conditions.

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