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Psycholinguistic Abilities and Audiometric Performance in Partially Hearing Children
Author(s) -
BENCH JOHN,
COTTER SARAH
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682827909011358
Subject(s) - audiogram , itpa , audiology , psychology , active listening , intelligibility (philosophy) , audiometry , sentence , hearing loss , linguistics , communication , medicine , hepatitis c virus , philosophy , virus , epistemology , virology , ribavirin
Summary Twenty partially hearing children aged 9–18 years were assessed for connected‐speech (sentence list) audiometry with and without their hearing aids, for the auditory/verbal subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), and for the quality of their uttered speech (SQ). The threshold shift obtained when listening with an aid was poorly related to all variables, apart from a significant quadratic correlation with the unaided speech intelligibility threshold. Otherwise, the audiometric measures were generally moderately or highly correlated with ITPA scores and SQ. The slopes of the speech audiograms were the audiometric measures best correlated with ITPA scores, while the threshold audiometric measures were best correlated with SQ. Performances across the ITPA subtests, which were lower than would have been obtained for normally hearing children, were significantly and highly intercorrelated, suggesting a general rather than a specific linguistic retardation in aspects assessed by the auditory/verbal subtests. The relationships between the audiometric and psycholinguistic variables are discussed, and a case is made for further work.