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Prevalence of Hearing Impairment among School Children.
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Lundeen, Conrad – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1991
Data from 1968-69 testing by the National Speech and Hearing Survey of over 38,000 United States school children indicates a prevalence of hearing impairment at roughly half the usually cited rates. Because of the number of subjects and the unique calibration technique used, these findings should be given greater weight and dissemination.…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Psychophysical Evidence in Support of the Auditory Numbers Test.
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Formby, C.; And Others – Volta Review, 1994
Temporal envelope and spectral cue resolution were evaluated simultaneously in seven adults with severe/profound hearing impairments. Results revealed that the Auditory Numbers Test (ANT) is differentially sensitive to responses based upon gross temporal envelope and spectral cues in the speech signal. The ANT is endorsed as a screening tool for…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
Complementing Behavioral Measures with Electrophysiological Measures in Diagnostic Evaluation: A Case Study in Two Languages
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Martin, Jeffrey S.; Jerger, James F.; Ulatowska, Hanna K.; Mehta, Jyutika A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
This case study focuses on a bilingual, older man who spoke Polish and English and showed weaknesses on clinical measures of dichotic listening in English. It was unclear whether these test results were influenced by the participant's facility with his second language or by other nonauditory factors. To elucidate the nature of this deficit, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Polish, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
The UCSF Tracking Procedure for Evaluation and Training of Speech Reception by Hearing-Impaired Adults.
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Owens, Elmer; Raggio, Marcia – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987
A tracking procedure (lipreading of word groups that are repeated by a hearing-impaired listener), emphasizing practical coping strategies and practice in responding to cues in connected speech, was utilized with one deaf adult subject. Tracking scores before and after training illustrate the value of the procedure for evaluation and training.…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests
Early Identification of Hearing Impaired Children: Expanding and Refining Best Practices. Final Report.
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White, Karl R.; Mauk, Gary W. – 1993
The goal of this project was to increase by 50 percent the number of children with significant hearing impairment identified by 12 months of age. Attainment of this goal was attempted through activities in three major areas: (1) replication and documentation of the benefits of a birth certificate-based screening system; (2) investigation of the…
Descriptors: Acoustics, At Risk Persons, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Tests
Test of Auditory Comprehension (TAC) for Hearing Impaired Pupils--Reliability and Validity Study.
Hoversten, Gloria H. – 1977
The Test of Auditory Comprehension (TAC), one component of the Auditory Skills Instructional Planning System, is a comprehensive test instrument designed for individual use with hearing impaired pupils, four through twelve years of age, for assessing receptive auditory functioning. Included in the TAC are ten discrete subtests measuring auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests