PMID- 27191394
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170724
LR  - 20190219
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 5
DP  - 2016
TI  - Known-Groups and Concurrent Validity of the Mandarin Tone Identification Test 
      (MTIT).
PG  - e0155595
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0155595 [doi]
LID - e0155595
AB  - OBJECTIVE: The Mandarin Tone Identification Test (MTIT) is a new test designed to 
      assess the tone identification abilities of children with hearing impairment 
      (HI). Evidence for reliability and sensitivity has been reported. The present 
      study aimed to evaluate the known-groups and concurrent validity of the MTIT. 
      DESIGN: The MTIT and Mandarin Pediatric Speech Intelligibility test (MPSI) were 
      administered in quiet and in noise conditions. The known-groups validity was 
      evaluated by comparing the performance of the MTIT on children with two different 
      levels of HI. The MPSI was included to evaluate the concurrent validity of the 
      MTIT. STUDY SAMPLE: 81 children with HI were recruited in the present study. They 
      were Mandarin-speaking children with profound HI (mean age = 9; 0, n = 41) and 
      with moderate to severe HI (mean age = 8; 9, n = 40). RESULTS: Scores on the MTIT 
      differed between the two groups with different hearing levels suggesting good 
      known-groups validity. A strong relationship between tone and sentence perception 
      both in quiet and in noise provided preliminary evidence for concurrent validity. 
      CONCLUSIONS: The present study confirmed that the MTIT has good known-groups 
      validity and provided preliminary evidence for concurrent validity. The MTIT 
      could be used to evaluate tone identification ability in children with HI with 
      confidence.
FAU - Zhu, Shufeng
AU  - Zhu S
AD  - Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science 
      and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
AD  - Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
FAU - Wong, Lena L N
AU  - Wong LL
AD  - Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 
      China.
FAU - Chen, Fei
AU  - Chen F
AD  - Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science 
      and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
AD  - Neural and Cognitive Sciences Research Center, Southern University of Science and 
      Technology, Shenzhen, China.
FAU - Chen, Yuan
AU  - Chen Y
AD  - Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 
      China.
FAU - Wang, Bin
AU  - Wang B
AD  - Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20160518
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Auditory Threshold
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Language
MH  - Male
MH  - Noise
MH  - *Pitch Discrimination
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Signal-To-Noise Ratio
MH  - *Speech Perception
PMC - PMC4871517
COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2016/05/19 06:00
MHDA- 2017/07/25 06:00
PMCR- 2016/05/18
CRDT- 2016/05/19 06:00
PHST- 2015/11/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/05/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/05/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/05/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/07/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/05/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-15-51668 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0155595 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2016 May 18;11(5):e0155595. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155595. 
      eCollection 2016.