유소아기 청력손실은 언어습득 및 언어발달, 학습 및 정서심리 등에 지대한 영향을 미치므로 가능한 조기에 발견하고 중재해야 한다. 이러한 일련의 과정에서 어음청각검사를 통하여 어음인지능력을 적절히 평가하고 이를 바탕으로 중재를 도모하는 일은 무엇보다 중요하다. 어음인지도(speech recognition score)는 듣기에 가장 적절한 강도로 어음을 제시하였을 때 정확히 확인하는 정도(%)를 측정하는 것28)으로 일상생활의 듣기능력에 대한 정보 제공뿐만 아니라 청력손실 병변 부위, 보장구의 선택 및 적합, 재활의 평
The Korean Standard Sentence Lists for Preschoolers (KS-SL-P) that uses pictures have been developed for the sentence recognition test, which is used in evaluating listening skills of pre-school age children (3 to 5 years of age) in everyday life. The KS-SL-P have four lists, each consisting of 10 sentences, and are made of 11 picture boards including one for practice. Each picture board is consisted of four test sentences and two non-test sentences. The number of words used in each sentence varies from 2 to maximum of 5 words. The sentences were selected based on the criteria for vocabulary and sentence structure that are understandable by a 3 year old child, and the naturalness and familiarity of the sentences were verified through the sentence naturalness test. The degree of difficulty for each sentence list was made to vary evenly through the analysis of vocabulary, sentence structure, phoneme composition, frequency characteristics and psychometric function. Frequency characteristics and psychometric function revealed significant equivalency among the lists. We highly expect these sentence lists to be used effectively as a useful testing device for evaluating pre-school age children’s listening skills of everyday life in clinical settings. KEY WORDS：Korean standard sentence lists·Korean standard sentence lists for preschoolers (KS-SL-P)·Sentence recognition test·Speech audiometry.
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