Gravel J S, Traquina D N
Department of Otolaryngology, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 1992 Jan;23(1):59-71. doi: 10.1016/0165-5876(92)90080-9.
Experience with the behavioral assessment of hearing sensitivity is reported for 211 babies and toddlers aged 6-24 months. The visually reinforced head-turn procedure, visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA), was utilized to obtain threshold estimates for infants evaluated for both research and clinical purposes. At the initial test session, 90% of the infants and toddlers provided useful audiometric threshold data for air-conducted tonal signals; 84% could be assessed using standard earphones. The equipment arrangement described allows a single audiologist to complete the VRA assessment. The behavioral test technique offers the clinician a simple, efficient procedure for the routine audiometric assessment of the vast majority of very young children.
报告了对211名6至24个月大的婴幼儿进行听力敏感度行为评估的经验。采用视觉强化转头程序，即视觉强化听力测定法（VRA），来获取因研究和临床目的而接受评估的婴儿的阈值估计值。在初次测试环节，90%的婴幼儿提供了气导纯音信号的有效听力阈值数据；84%的婴幼儿可以使用标准耳机进行评估。所描述的设备配置使一名听力学家就能完成VRA评估。这种行为测试技术为临床医生提供了一种简单、高效的程序，用于对绝大多数幼儿进行常规听力评估。
