Development of the Mandarin Phoneme Detection Score Sheet as a Screening Tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Hearing thresholds across frequencies must be obtained for hearing aid fitting. Narrow-band noise (NBN) and speech sounds are often used as stimuli in pediatric audiologic assessments to elicit children's attention due to their wider frequency ranges as compared to pure tones. However, obtaining complete responses across frequency ranges is challenging in pediatric practice. Therefore, we developed a frequency-specific phoneme screening tool, the Mandarin Phoneme Detection Score Sheet, to help clinicians evaluate aided performance in pediatric practice.

Subjects and methods

A total of 30 adults with typical hearing and 30 children aged 3-12 years with hearing loss were recruited. Threshold ranges for the aided detection of Mandarin phonemes and NBN

SUBMITTER: Lin CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8755435 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature