Thresholds of discomfort in young children.
Procedures for obtaining thresholds of discomfort from young children are almost nonexistent. This is likely due to the problems encountered in finding a task that they can easily perform. The purpose of this project was to design and test a procedure appropriate to the cognitive and language abilities of 4- to 5-yr-old hearing-impaired children. Data obtained from normally hearing subjects indicate that the procedure can be used with children whose mental ages are at or above 5 yr.
University of Iowa, Iowa City.
B J
BJ
Macpherson
J L
JL
Elfenbein
R L
RL
Schum
R A
RA
Bentler
D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology