Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Int J Audiol. 2012 Apr;51(4):326-33. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2011.637079. Epub 2011 Dec 19.
The parents' evaluation of aural/oral performance of children (PEACH) scale was developed to assess the effectiveness of amplification for children, based on a systematic use of parents' observations of children's performance in real-world environments.
The purpose of the present study was to adapt the PEACH scale into the Malay language, and to collect normative data on a group of children with normal hearing.
The participants were parents of 74 children aged between 3 months and 13 years of age. Parents were requested to observe their children's auditory/oral behavior in everyday life and to record their observations in the PEACH booklet.
High internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.93) and item-total correlation were found (0.52-0.85). Similar to the published norms for English-speaking children, near-perfect scores were achieved by Malaysian children around 40 months of age.
The adapted version can be used to evaluate amplification for children in the Malay speaking environment. The normative curve relating age to scores for the Malay PEACH can be used as a reference against which functional aural/oral performance of hearing-impaired Malaysian children can be evaluated.
为评估儿童助听效果，开发了父母对儿童听觉/口语表现评估量表（PEACH），该量表基于系统使用父母对儿童在真实环境中表现的观察。
本研究旨在将 PEACH 量表改编为马来语，并收集一组正常听力儿童的常模数据。
参与者为 74 名年龄在 3 个月至 13 岁之间的儿童的父母。父母被要求观察其子女在日常生活中的听觉/口语行为，并在 PEACH 手册中记录他们的观察结果。
发现量表具有较高的内部一致性（Cronbach's alpha = 0.93）和项目总分相关性（0.52-0.85）。与英语儿童的发布常模相似，马来西亚儿童在大约 40 个月时取得了近乎完美的分数。
改编后的版本可用于评估马来语环境中儿童的助听效果。年龄与马来语 PEACH 分数之间的常模曲线可作为听力受损马来西亚儿童听觉/口语功能评估的参考。
