Measuring the ability of children to understand everyday speech using computer technology: a normative study

Kei, Joseph; Smyth, Veronica; Burge, Erin; Fernando, Sharon; Fiteni, Renee; Haslam, S Kimberly; Driscoll, Carlie; Keogh, Tegan; McMahon, Sandra

doi:10.1179/136132803805576093

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“…The present study showed that normally hearing children (group 3, children who passed pure-tone audiometry and tympanometry in both ears) obtained mean scores of 80.3 and 72.0% under noisy conditions of 5 and 0 dB SNR, respectively. These scores compare reasonably well with the findings of Kei et al [2003] of 88.8 and 82% under the same noise conditions obtained from 99 older children with a mean age of 8.3 years. The results of the present study showed that children with normal hearing did experience difficulty in understanding everyday speech under adverse noise conditions.…”

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“…Noise has been found to affect speech understanding in children and adults using the UQUEST [Kei et al, 2003;Percy and Kei, 2008]. The present study provid ed further evidence to this effect.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…These scores are clearly lower than the mean score of 90% obtained from 99 normally hearing children (mean age = 8.3 years, range 7-10, SD = 0.7) under the less noisy conditions (i.e. SNR = 10 dB and in quiet) in the study by Kei et al [2003]. The negative effect of noise on speech understanding is expected since a higher level of noise would have masked weaker speech sounds, such as the fricative sounds and the soft consonants, which are important for speech comprehension [Stelmachowicz et al, 2004].…”

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confidence: 41%

“…These 6 test videos were found to be of equal difficulty across 2 noise conditions (SNR = 0 and 5) [Kei et al, 2003]. These conditions were chosen to represent the noise environment commonly experienced in a standard classroom [Bess et al, 1984].…”

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Children with Minimal Conductive Hearing Impairment: Speech Comprehension in Noise

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Based on a study sample of 1071 primary school children (5.3–11.7 years), 10.2% of the children were found to have conductive hearing loss in 1 or both ears. Binaural speech comprehension scores of a subset of 540 children were analyzed. The results showed that children with bilateral conductive hearing loss had the lowest mean scores of 60.8–69.3% obtained under noise conditions. These scores were significantly lower than the corresponding scores of 69.3–75.3% obtained by children with possible middle ear disorders but no apparent hearing loss, 70.5–76.5% obtained by children with a unilateral conductive hearing loss and 72.0–80.3% obtained by their normally hearing peers. This study confirms that young children, who are known to have poorer speech understanding in noise, show further disadvantage when a bilateral conductive hearing loss is present.

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“…Although traditional speech audiometry such as the AB word lists (Boothroyd, 1968), is useful in many diagnostic applications, its use as an indicator of understanding of everyday speech has been questioned (Kei & Smyth, 1997;Kei et al, 1999Kei et al, , 2003. To assess speech comprehension, the University of Queensland Understanding Everyday Speech Test (UQUEST) was developed (Kei et al, 2003).…”

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Effect of Noise on the Comprehension of Everyday Speech by Normally Hearing Adults

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Kei²

2008

Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing

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The present study aimed to investigate the ability of normally hearing adults to comprehend everyday speech at various signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) using the University of Queensland Understanding Everyday Speech Test. Participants were 18 normally hearing adults (4 males and 14 females) with a mean age of 28.8 years. The speech material, consisting of 2 practice passages and 10 test passages, was delivered to each participant under binaural listening conditions at 65 dB SPL in sound field. The participant listened to the test passages under 5 different listening conditions (quiet, SNR = 5, 0, −5, and −10 dB). After the presentation of each passage, the participant was required to answer 4 content-related multiple choice questions. The maximum score for each passage was 4. The results of the study showed that the mean speech scores for the quiet, 5 dB, 0 dB, −5 dB, and −10 dB SNR conditions were 3.89, 3.83, 3.72, 3.64, and 2.36, respectively. A trend of diminishing speech scores with decreasing SNR was observed. The present study showed that speech comprehension in noisy environments by normally hearing adults was compromised especially at the most unfavorable noise condition of −10 dB SNR.

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Hearing loss in children with otitis media with effusion: a systematic review

Cai

McPherson

2016

International Journal of Audiology

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Measuring the ability of children to understand everyday speech using computer technology: a normative study

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Children with Minimal Conductive Hearing Impairment: Speech Comprehension in Noise

Children with Minimal Conductive Hearing Impairment: Speech Comprehension in Noise

Effect of Noise on the Comprehension of Everyday Speech by Normally Hearing Adults

Hearing loss in children with otitis media with effusion: a systematic review

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