A Danish Sentence Corpus for Assessing Speech Recognition in Noise in School-Age Children.
Shno Koiek, Jens Bo Nielsen, Laila Kjærbæk and 2 others
PMID 32865138WHAT IT FOUND
Six new Danish sentence lists allow reliable speech-in-noise testing for children aged 6 to 12.
Four other lists are better suited for practice because they are slightly harder. The material is ready for research but needs age-specific norms before clinical use.
Key findings
01Six test lists (A1, A2, A3, T2, T3, T4) showed equivalent difficulty and reliability suitable for assessment.
02Four training lists (D1, D3, D4, T1) were significantly harder than the test lists.
03Age significantly affected performance, with older children understanding speech in noise better than younger children.
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What it does not show
The study only included children with normal hearing, so it does not show how the material performs with children who have hearing loss. Age-specific normative data have not yet been collected, limiting clinical application. The sample size was small (20 children), and all participants were from families with middle to high incomes and were monolingual Danish speakers. One child was excluded from the final analysis due to inconsistent test-retest data.
Declared interests
The study was funded by the William Demant Foundation.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use this material for clinical diagnosis or to set patient goals yet. The authors explicitly state that age-specific normative data are needed before it can be used in clinical practice, and validation was restricted to children with normal hearing.