DEVELOPMENT OF NORMATIVE DATA FOR LING’S SIX SOUND TEST IN QUIET AND NOISE IN PRESCHOOLERS
INTRODUCTION
The Ling six-sound test (Ling, 1976) is one of the procedures traditionally used to assess functional listening skills. It is invaluable as it is quick, encompasses the frequency range between 250 to 8000 Hz and can be used by audiologists, speech-language pathologists or even parents for a quick listening check. It can be effectively used with children and adults with hearing aids, cochlear implants or even in the unaided condition. Scollie et. al. (2012) aimed to develop and evaluate a calibrated version of the recorded Ling test for evaluation of aided detection thresholds. They tested 29 normally hearing young adults to determine
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Each child was explained the task and was conditioned well before the testing by presenting the stimulus at a comfortable supra-threshold level. The stimuli used were the Ling six sounds namely; |a| |i| |u| |s| |sh| |m|. Testing was done in quiet as well as noisy environment. For assessing the awareness of the sounds, the child was required to indicate if he/she heard the sound by raising the hand whereas for identification the child repeated the sound that was heard. For some children who could not repeat the sound, the second clinician sitting in the room along with the child asked the child to choose the correct sound from the options given by …show more content…
For the identification task, the thresholds ranged between 15.4 to 24 dB HL, with the lowest threshold for /a/ and the highest threshold for /s/. The mean awareness threshold for the 6 sounds in noise ranges from 29 to 49.6 dB HL, with the lowest threshold for /s/ and the highest threshold for /m/. The thresholds for identification in noise ranged between 33.7 to 51.6 dB HL, with the lowest threshold for /s/ and the highest threshold for
Specific Purpose: To help people to understand what Audism is and that the lack of an ability to hear does not mean they are incapable of performing tasks.
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When a child is diagnosed with deafness, many parents often wonder what the exact cause of the child’s deafness is. In recent studies (Arnos K. &., 2007) 50-60% of hearing loss (moderate to profound, congenital, or early-onset) have shown genetics to be a large factor. Non genetic factors (i.e. maternal infection, prematurity or postnatal infection) may cause 40-50% of the remaining hearing loss. About one-third of children with hereditary deafness have features that are part of a genetic syndrome and there are between 300-400 different forms of genetic deafness that are known. Most children benefit from a genetic evaluation as a dominant diagnostic tool in determining the exact cause of the deafness, and the role of the audiologist is pivitol in counseling parents of deaf children through this process.
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When most people think of the process of language development in “normal” children, the concepts that come to mind are of babies imitating, picking up sounds and words from the speakers around them. Trying to imagine that a child who cannot hear one single sound a person makes can learn to speak a language is absolutely fascinating. These children range from amazin...
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Neuronal plasticity found in infants, and the learning process has been of keen interest to neurobiologists for some time. How does the brain develop and attain the skills we need as one grows is fascinating. It is commonly understood that a crying infant can only be consoled by his/her mother, and is able to recognize her voice over the voice of a stranger. A number of studies have also been done on the distinct reaction of infants to sounds of their own language versus a foreign language, familiar melodies or fragments of stories they may have heard repeatedly during the fetus stage (Partanen et. al, 2013). However, these studies relied heavily on the infant’s reactions, which bared little credibility (Skwarecki, 2013). One research team developed a technique to show that infants actually develop memory of the sounds they hear while in the womb, and are able to recognize the similar sounds at the time of birth. The team was able to trace changes in brain activity in new born infants, and thus provided quantitative evidence that memory forms before birth (Partanen et. al, 2013). This paper begins by examining the literature that identifies associations between MMR used as a tool to measure auditory input and Exposure to Psuedoword and how its varations create memory traces.
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