Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038, USA.
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2011 Jan;42(1):52-8. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2010/09-0081). Epub 2010 Jul 2.
Newborn hearing screening, early intervention programs, and advancements in cochlear implant and hearing aid technology have greatly increased opportunities for children with hearing loss to become intelligible talkers. Optimizing speech intelligibility requires that progress be monitored closely. Although direct assessment of intelligibility has been a cumbersome undertaking, advancements in digital recording technology and expanded strategies for recruiting listener-judges can make this tool much more practical in contemporary school and clinical settings.
The main purposes of this tutorial are to present a rationale for assessing children's connected speech intelligibility, review important uses for intelligibility scores, and describe time-efficient ways to estimate how well children's connected speech can be understood. This information is offered to encourage routine assessment of connected speech intelligibility in preschool and school-age children with hearing loss.
新生儿听力筛查、早期干预计划以及耳蜗植入和助听器技术的进步,极大地增加了听力损失儿童成为可理解说话者的机会。优化言语可理解性需要密切监测进展。尽管直接评估可理解性是一项繁琐的任务,但数字录音技术的进步和招募听众评判员的扩展策略可以使这个工具在当代学校和临床环境中更加实用。
本教程的主要目的是提出评估儿童连贯言语可理解性的基本原理,回顾可理解性得分的重要用途,并描述有效评估儿童连贯言语可理解性的方法。提供这些信息是为了鼓励对有听力损失的学龄前和学龄儿童进行连贯言语可理解性的常规评估。