British children's performance on the listening in spatialised noise-sentences test (LISN-S)

• Published in: International journal of audiology Vol. 58; no. 11; p. 754
• Main Authors: Murphy, C F B, Hashim, E, Dillon, H, Bamiou, D E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 02.11.2019
• Subjects: Child; Cues; Female; Humans; Language; Language Development Disorders - diagnosis; Male; Noise; Prospective Studies; Reference Values; Sound Localization; Speech Perception; Speech Reception Threshold Test - methods; Speech Reception Threshold Test - statistics & numerical data; United Kingdom; United States; United States; United Kingdom; auditory processing; auditory stream segregation; Spatial processing disorder; children
• ISSN: 1708-8186
• DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2019.1627592

To investigate whether British children's performance is equivalent to North American norms on the listening in spatialised noise-sentences test (LiSN-S). Prospective study comparing the performance of a single British group of children to North-American norms on the LiSN-S (North American version). The British group was composed of 46 typically developing children, aged 6-11 years 11 months, from a mainstream primary school in London. No significant difference was observed between the British's group performance and the North-American norms for Low-cue, High-cue, Spatial Advantage and Total Advantage measure. The British group presented a significantly lower performance only for Talker Advantage measure (z-score: 0.35, 95% confidence interval -0.12 to -0.59). Age was significantly correlated with all unstandardised measures. Our results indicate that, when assessing British children, it would be appropriate to add a corrective factor of 0.35 to the z-score value obtained for the Talker Advantage in order to compare it to the North-American norms. This strategy would enable the use of LiSN-S in the UK to assess auditory stream segregation based on spatial cues.