Normative data of the A§E® discrimination and identification tests in preverbal children

Abstract

The A§E® is a set of suprathreshold tests for the auditory evaluation of the hearing impaired. A particular population of interest is the hearing-impaired preverbal child. This paper reports on normative data of the A§E® discrimination test in children aged 10 months and of the A§E® identification tests in children aged 2 to 4 years. Normally hearing children of these ages were tested and pass criteria were defined in such a way that 95% of the hearing infants would pass the tests. With these criteria, the A§E® discrimination test is feasible at 10 months of age and the A§E® identification test from 30 months of age. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords:

• A§E
• auditory speech sounds evaluation
• suprathreshold test
• hearing impaired infant
• preverbal