Using Personal Response Systems to Assess Speech Perception Within the Classroom

Vickers, Deborah; Backus, Bradford C.; Macdonald, Nora; Rostamzadeh, Niloofar K.; Mason, Nisha K.; Pandya, Roshni; Marriage, Josephine; Mahon, Merle

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“…Children had a practice run that consisted of 4 words to familiarize them with the process. Following Vickers’ speech test procedure [ 27 ], each child was assigned a hand-held infrared transmitter to record her or his response to each trial. Turning point software and a USB receiver were used to capture the children’s responses.…”

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The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

2021

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Objective: The aim of this project was to develop the Arabic CAPT (A-CAPT), a Standard Arabic version of the CHEAR auditory perception test (CAPT) that assesses consonant perception ability in children. Method: This closed-set test was evaluated with normal-hearing children aged 5 to 11 years. Development and validation of the speech materials were accomplished in two experimental phases. Twenty-six children participated in phase I, where the test materials were piloted to ensure that the selected words were age appropriate and that the form of Arabic used was familiar to the children. Sixteen children participated in phase II where test–retest reliability, age effects, and critical differences were measured. A computerized implementation was used to present stimuli and collect responses. Children selected one of four response options displayed on a screen for each trial. Results: Two lists of 32 words were developed with two levels of difficulty, easy and hard. Assessment of test–retest reliability for the final version of the lists showed a strong agreement. A within-subject ANOVA showed no significant difference between test and retest sessions. Performance improved with increasing age. Critical difference values were similar to the British English version of the CAPT. Conclusions: The A-CAPT is an appropriate speech perception test for assessing Arabic-speaking children as young as 5 years old. This test can reliably assess consonant perception ability and monitor changes over time or after an intervention.

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The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

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“…Our aim was to ensure that people were operating at the same point on the psychometric function. We selected the 50% point on the speech identification psychometric because we wanted the majority of scores to fall above chance plus the critical difference for the CAPT (18% ( Vickers et al., 2013 )) and below 100% minus the critical difference, that is, 43% to 82%.…”

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Simultaneous Assessment of Speech Identification and Spatial Discrimination

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With increasing numbers of children and adults receiving bilateral cochlear implants, there is an urgent need for assessment tools that enable testing of binaural hearing abilities. Current test batteries are either limited in scope or are of an impractical duration for routine testing. Here, we report a behavioral test that enables combined testing of speech identification and spatial discrimination in noise. In this task, multitalker babble was presented from all speakers, and pairs of speech tokens were sequentially presented from two adjacent speakers. Listeners were required to identify both words from a closed set of four possibilities and to determine whether the second token was presented to the left or right of the first. In Experiment 1, normal-hearing adult listeners were tested at 15° intervals throughout the frontal hemifield. Listeners showed highest spatial discrimination performance in and around the frontal midline, with a decline at more eccentric locations. In contrast, speech identification abilities were least accurate near the midline and showed an improvement in performance at more lateral locations. In Experiment 2, normal-hearing listeners were assessed using a restricted range of speaker locations designed to match those found in clinical testing environments. Here, speakers were separated by 15° around the midline and 30° at more lateral locations. This resulted in a similar pattern of behavioral results as in Experiment 1. We conclude, this test offers the potential to assess both spatial discrimination and the ability to use spatial information for unmasking in clinical populations.

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“…Excessive noise level, however, is the most significant contributor affecting speech perception (Sato & Bradley, 2008;Yang & Bradley, 2009). Many studies have shown the detrimental effect of noise on children's speech perception, reading and language comprehension, cognition, concentration, learning, and psychoeducational and psychosocial development (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2005;Anderson, 2001;Crandell & Smaldino, 1995;Dockrell & Shield, 2006;Finitzo-Hieber & Tillman, 1978;Jamieson et al, 2004;Klatte, Lachmann, & Meis, 2010;Ronsse & Wang, 2010, 2013Shield et al, 2010;Vickers et al, 2013).…”

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The Development of the Mealings, Demuth, Dillon, and Buchholz Classroom Speech Perception Test

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Using Personal Response Systems to Assess Speech Perception Within the Classroom

Cited by 15 publications

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The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

Simultaneous Assessment of Speech Identification and Spatial Discrimination

The Development of the Mealings, Demuth, Dillon, and Buchholz Classroom Speech Perception Test

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