Measurement of speech thresholds of Spanish-speaking children by non-Spanish speaking clinicians.
This study investigated the feasibility of a prerecorded speech threshold procedure that was used in a picture-pointing format, and was administered to Spanish-speaking children by non-Spanish-speaking clinicians. The derived Spanish word list was compared for equivalency to English spondees on a group of bilingual adults. The test, administered to 16 children ages three to six years, resulted in good agreement between SRT and pure-tone average. The test was found to be feasible, rapid, and reliable.
D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D013030:Spain / Q000208:ethnology; D013060:Speech; D014481:United States