Test-retest reliability of the Toy Discrimination Test with a masker of noise or babble in children with hearing impairment

Lovett, Rosemary; Summerfield, Quentin; Vickers, Deborah

doi:10.3109/14992027.2013.769064

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“…Data were reanalyzed for reliability using methods described by Bland and Altman (1996a, 1996b) and employed by Summerfield et al (1994) and Lovett et al (2013). These analyses were applied to evaluate the reliability of the longitudinal data.…”

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Nonlinguistic Outcome Measures in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Over the First Year of Implantation

Drennan

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et al. 2016

Ear &Amp; Hearing

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Objectives Post-lingually deaf cochlear implant users’ speech perception improves over several months after implantation due to a learning process which involves integration of the new acoustic information presented by the device. Basic tests of hearing acuity might evaluate sensitivity to the new acoustic information and be less sensitive to learning effects. It was hypothesized that, unlike speech perception, basic spectral and temporal discrimination abilities will not change over the first year of implant use. If there were limited change over time and the test scores were correlated with clinical outcome, the tests might be useful for acute diagnostic assessments of hearing ability and also useful for testing speakers of any language, many of which do not have validated speech tests. Design Ten newly implanted cochlear implant users were tested for speech understanding in quiet and in noise at 1 and 12 months post activation. Spectral-ripple discrimination, temporal-modulation detection, and Schroeder-phase discrimination abilities were evaluated at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months post activation. Results Speech understanding in quiet improved between 1 and 12 months post activation (mean 8% improvement). Speech in noise performance showed no statistically significant improvement. Mean spectral-ripple discrimination thresholds and temporal-modulation detection thresholds for modulation frequencies of 100 Hz and above also showed no significant improvement. Spectral-ripple discrimination thresholds were significantly correlated with speech understanding. Low frequency modulation detection and Schroeder-phase discrimination abilities improved over the period. Individual learning trends varied, but the majority of listeners followed the same stable pattern as group data. Conclusions Spectral-ripple discrimination ability and temporal-modulation detection at 100-Hz modulation and above might serve as a useful diagnostic tool for early acute assessment of cochlear implant outcome for listeners speaking any native language.

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Nonlinguistic Outcome Measures in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Over the First Year of Implantation

Drennan

Won

Timme³

et al. 2016

Ear &Amp; Hearing

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“…Additional constraints arise from the short attention span of young children and the related difficulty in maintaining interest and therefore compliance with the task. Tests need to have a sufficient number of items to give small critical differences between test scores (Thornton & Raffin 1978;Vickers et al 2018) and to give good test/retest reliability (Bland & Altman 1986;Lovett et al 2013), but they should not be so long that the child loses interest and/or concentration. As a result of these problems "few clinically useful measures exist to evaluate auditory development in infants and toddlers", regardless of hearing status (McConkey Robbins et al 2004).…”

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Comparison of Different Hearing Aid Prescriptions for Children

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“…It is an adaptive discrimination test using words presented in either speech-shaped noise or two-talker babble. Lovett et al (2013)…”

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Closed-Set Speech Discrimination Tests for Assessing Young Children

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The CCT is appropriate for children with developmental age in the range 2 to 4.5 years and the CAPT is appropriate as a follow-on test from the CCT. If a child scores 80% or more on the CCT, they can be further tested using the CAPT, which contains more advanced vocabulary and more difficult contrasts. This allows the assessment of consonant perception ability and of changes over time or after an intervention.

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Test-retest reliability of the Toy Discrimination Test with a masker of noise or babble in children with hearing impairment

Abstract: The results can inform the interpretation of scores from individual children. If a child completes a condition twice in different listening situations (e.g. aided and unaided), a difference between scores ≥ 7.5 dB would be statistically significant (p <.05).

Cited by 9 publications

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Nonlinguistic Outcome Measures in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Over the First Year of Implantation

Nonlinguistic Outcome Measures in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Over the First Year of Implantation

Comparison of Different Hearing Aid Prescriptions for Children

Closed-Set Speech Discrimination Tests for Assessing Young Children

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