title: On the construction of a Finnish audiometric sentence test.
abstract: To respond to the demands of clinical practice and the needs of rehabilitation, a Finnish audiometric sentence test is being developed. The test consists of 10 sets of 10 sentences, each set serving as an independent test. The test is scored by words (50 per set). Homogeneity between the sets was guaranteed by a number of linguistic and phonetic criteria, controlled by using the Virko Sentence Analyzer, a programme especially constructed for the purpose. Recognition tests for the validation of the sentence sets were made with young normally hearing adults (n = 70; age group 18-25 years). Psychometric recognition properties of the test are described. The selection process of the final 10 sentence sets is illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Finnish, Saami and Logopedics, University of Oulu. Taisto.Maatta@oulu.fi
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Määttä
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Sorri
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Huttunen
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Välimaa
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Muhli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011594:Psychometrics; D013067:Speech Perception