A Study on Whispered Voice Test for Auditory Screening at Three-year-old Health Examinations in Aichi Prefecture
1994 Volume 37 Issue 6 Pages 704-713
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1994 Volume 37 Issue 6 Pages 704-713
A comparative study on the results with the whispered voice test and pure tone audiometry was undertaken on 104 patients from 3 to 21 years old. The results obtained were as follows.
1) The whispered voice test, which had already been performed in Aichi Prefecture and consisted of words with the acoustical characteristics at 1000Hz and 4000Hz, was benefical for screening of children for low frequency or high frequency hearing loss. And the test was available to detect whether the hearing loss was over 20dB or not at mean hearing level of 2000, 4000 and 1000Hz.
2) About 20% of mothers were not able to whisper correctly but talked in low voice. We must invent a scheme how mothers can whisper correctly. But even if the test is undergone by low voice, we expect that considerable number of hearing impaired children whose mean hearing level at 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000Hz is 40-49dB can be detectable. Therefore it is very important for mothers to undertake the whispered voice test at home.
