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Nonsense Syllable Discrimination by Picture Identification with Young Children

Nonsense Syllable Discrimination by Picture Identification with Young Children 0360-9294/79/0405-0 170$02.00/0 Vol. 4, No. 5 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY Printed in U. S. A. Copyright 0 1979 by The Williams & Wilkins Co. Nonsense Syllable Discrimination by Picture ldentif ication with Young Children Ben R. Kelly and Gary Pillow’ Department of Communicative Disorders, East Tennessee State University Received January 5. 1978; accepted revised October 27, 1978. Young children comprise a substantial portion which Haskins (1949) developed using normal- of the population for whom audiological services hearing adults. It is often administered by moni- are usually provided. Yet, very few tests have been tored live voice, and the child responds by repeat- developed that can successfully assess speech dis- ing what he hears. This test has not been commer- crimination abilities of young children. Therefore, cially recorded (Goetzinger, 1972). a need for a test which may be used in the accurate Ross and Lerman (1965) constructed the Word assessment of speech discrimination ability of Intelligibility by Picture Identification (WIPI) test young children exists. to assess the speech discrimination ability of hear- The audiologist who wishes to determine the ing-impaired children. The WIPI utilized simple speech discrimination ability of a young child monosyllabic words which could be represented http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Audiology Society Wolters Kluwer Health

Nonsense Syllable Discrimination by Picture Identification with Young Children

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0360-9294/79/0405-0 170$02.00/0 Vol. 4, No. 5 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY Printed in U. S. A. Copyright 0 1979 by The Williams & Wilkins Co. Nonsense Syllable Discrimination by Picture ldentif ication with Young Children Ben R. Kelly and Gary Pillow’ Department of Communicative Disorders, East Tennessee State University Received January 5. 1978; accepted revised October 27, 1978. Young children comprise a substantial portion which Haskins (1949) developed using normal- of the population for whom audiological services hearing adults. It is often administered by moni- are usually provided. Yet, very few tests have been tored live voice, and the child responds by repeat- developed that can successfully assess speech dis- ing what he hears. This test has not been commer- crimination abilities of young children. Therefore, cially recorded (Goetzinger, 1972). a need for a test which may be used in the accurate Ross and Lerman (1965) constructed the Word assessment of speech discrimination ability of Intelligibility by Picture Identification (WIPI) test young children exists. to assess the speech discrimination ability of hear- The audiologist who wishes to determine the ing-impaired children. The WIPI utilized simple speech discrimination ability of a young child monosyllabic words which could be represented

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Journal of the American Audiology Society – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: Mar 1, 1979

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