PMID- 16119257
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20051108
LR  - 20200423
IS  - 1050-0545 (Print)
IS  - 1050-0545 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 5
DP  - 2005 May
TI  - Measuring the ability of school children with a history of otitis media to 
      understand everyday speech.
PG  - 301-11
AB  - The present study compared the ability of school-aged children with and without a 
      history of otitis media (OM) to understand everyday speech in noise using the 
      University of Queensland Understanding of Everyday Speech Test (UQUEST). 
      Participants were 484 children (246 boys, 238 girls) attending Grade 3 (272, mean 
      age = 8.25 yr., SD = 0.43) and Grade 4 (212, mean age = 9.28 yr., SD = 0.41) at 
      19 primary schools in Brisbane metropolitan and Sunshine Coast schools. Children 
      selected for inclusion were native speakers of English with normal hearing on the 
      day of testing and had no reported physical or behavioral impairments. The 
      children were divided into three groups according to the number of episodes of OM 
      since birth. The results showed no significant differences in speech scores 
      across the participant groups. However, a significant difference in mean speech 
      scores was found across the grades and the noise conditions. Although children 
      with a history of OM performed equally well at a group level when compared to the 
      controls, they exhibited a large range of abilities in speech comprehension 
      within the same group.
FAU - Keogh, Tegan
AU  - Keogh T
AD  - Division of Audiology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 
      t.keogh@uq.edu.au
FAU - Kei, Joseph
AU  - Kei J
FAU - Driscoll, Carlie
AU  - Driscoll C
FAU - Cahill, Louise
AU  - Cahill L
FAU - Hoffmann, Alison
AU  - Hoffmann A
FAU - Wilce, Emma
AU  - Wilce E
FAU - Kondamuri, Prasanth
AU  - Kondamuri P
FAU - Marinac, Julie
AU  - Marinac J
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Am Acad Audiol
JT  - Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
JID - 9114646
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Impedance Tests
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Audiometry, Pure-Tone
MH  - Audiometry, Speech
MH  - Auditory Threshold/*physiology
MH  - Child
MH  - *Child Language
MH  - Female
MH  - Hearing Loss, Conductive/*etiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Noise/adverse effects
MH  - Otitis Media/*complications
MH  - Otoscopy
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - *Speech Perception
EDAT- 2005/08/27 09:00
MHDA- 2005/11/09 09:00
CRDT- 2005/08/27 09:00
PHST- 2005/08/27 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/11/09 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/08/27 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3766/jaaa.16.5.5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Am Acad Audiol. 2005 May;16(5):301-11. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.16.5.5.