Effective Use of the Six Sound Test

Validation of the Chinese Sound Test: Auditory Performance of Hearing Aid Users

“…The most widely used screening test for detecting hearing fluctuations and poor auditory access in Englishspeaking regions is the Ling Six-Sound Test (Ling, 1976(Ling, , 2002, which comprises six phonemes from low to high frequencies: /m, u, a, i, ʃ, and s/. To provide a highly accurate diagnosis, several modified versions of the Ling Six-Sound Test have been developed for non-American English speakers in order to incorporate their native speech sounds, such as the Australian English Sound Test (Agung, Purdy, & Kitamura, 2005) and the Chinese Sound Test (Hung, Lin, Tsai, & Lee, 2016;Hung & Ma, 2016). In the Australian version, /u / was replaced with /ɔ/ because /ɔ/ is lower in frequency than /u / in the Australian accent.…”

“…Although the Ling Six-Sound Test and the Chinese Sound Test have high face validity and have been extensively used in therapy sessions and home settings because of their simplicity (Hung & Ma, 2016;Ling, 2012;Smiley, Martin, & Lance, 2004), according to our review of the relevant literature, these tests are yet to be validated. To the best of our knowledge, the only relevant work in the literature was dedicated to the development of a calibrated version of the Ling Six-Sound Test for evaluating aided detection thresholds (Glista, Scollie, Moodie, & Easwar, 2014;Scollie et al, 2012).…”

Effect of different personal protective equipment on sound discrimination in children using unilateral cochlear implants during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…In auditory rehabilitation, the Ling's six-sound test is one of the most popular methods for swiftly determining a patient's ability to hear speech sounds [9]. The Ling's six sounds are widely employed to evaluate the performance of an amplifier (hearing aid) or a cochlear implant.…”