Mediterr. J. Otol 2008; 4:(1)
A Modern Greek word recognition score test designed for school aged children.
Nikolaos Trimmis, Evangelos Papadeas, Theodoros Papadas, Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos, Panagiota Gouma, and Panos Goumas.
Department of Otolarynogology, University Hospital of Patras, Greece. trimmis@teipat.gr
Objective: Several word recognition tests in Greek have been developed over the years. However, none of these tests was especially designed for children. In this study, a test for measuring suprathreshold word recognition score in Modern Greek speaking children has been developed.
Material and method: The test is designed in an open-set format and consists of two lists of 50 bisyllabic words in each list. Two syllable words were chosen as stimuli because of the limited number of monosyllabic words in Modern Greek. The lists are phonemically balanced with a vocabulary level of 6 through 12 years of age.
Results and conclusion: Results
of the lists in Modern Greek speaking children with normal-hearing and different
types of hearing loss revealed that the test
appears to be a
useful additional tool for the audiological evaluation of children.