Play Audiometry Using TV Program by Video Tape Recorder: A Modification of Peep-Show Test
1976 Volume 19 Issue 5 Pages 284-288
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1976 Volume 19 Issue 5 Pages 284-288
A new play audiometry was devised, in which a popular TV program for children was used as reinforcement by Video Tape Recorder.
APPARATUS: Infant Audiometer (Rion, MA-68) was connected to Video Cassette Recorder (Sony, VO-1720) and TV setting (Sony, PVM-2020).
SUBJECTS: Thirty-one normal children aged 2 to 4 years were tested.
TEST PROCEDURE: Principle method was the same as that of Peep-Show test by Dix and Hallpike (1947). The warble tones (frequency deviation: 10%) of 500Hz, 1, 000Hz were given to the subjects as stimulus sounds by descending method. RESULTS: Percentages of children whose audiograms were obtained were as follows: 70% in 2-year-old children, 93% in 3 and 100% in 4.
Each average threshold was 7.9dB (JIS-1956) for 500Hz, 4.4dB for 1.000Hz, 10.0dB for 2, 000Hz in 2-year-old subjects, 4.6dB, 3.9dB and 8.2dB in 3-year-old subjects, and 5.8dB, 2.5dB and 3.3dB in 4-year-old subjects respectively.
CONCLUSION: We concluded that our VTR audiometry would be usable as a clinical hearing test.
It was left for further study on this VTR play audiometry to use TV spots as stimuli and rewards for response, and to apply this audiometry to normal and so-called difficult-to-test children.
