Measurement of Speech Reception Threshold by Picture Identification in Young Children / 대한이비인후과학회지

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Young children response more readily to speech than to pure tone stimuli. Although there are several reports on modification of speech Reception Threshold Testing by picture identification in the States, none has been reported in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, we investigated the testing of SRT-PI in 102 young children of normal development between 24 and 36 months. All subjects were tested not only with SRT-PI but also with play audiometry in the same condition. RESULTS: Overall success rate of SRT-PI was 80.3% while only 3.9% of subjects were successful in play audiometry. The success rate of SRT-PI was significantly higher in the 29-36 months group than in the 24-28 months group. Test time and threshold did not show significant differences between in sex and age of subjects with regard to SRT-PI. CONCLUSION: SRT-PI is a simple, efficient and very useful test battery for audiologic evaluation in young children.