title: Prediction of hearing thresholds in children using an automated toy discrimination test.
abstract: A previous paper described the development of the prototype of a semi-automated, sensitive and accurate version of the McCormick Toy Discrimination Test. In this report we describe a further development of the hardware, and demonstrate that results obtained from the automated test provide a basis for estimating the mean elevation of pure-tone threshold in the child's better ear. The correlation between speech and pure-tone results is high. The average of the better ear pure-tone thresholds at 0.5, 1 and 4 kHz can be predicted from the word-discrimination threshold obtained with the toy test, with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 11 dB.
authors.affiliation: MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheppard
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Marshall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010988:Play and Playthings; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*