Introduction

The Early Speech Perception (ESP) test has been previously used to assess speech perception skills in young hearing-impaired children. As the Arabic language is known to be diglossic, the purpose of this study was to develop a Colloquial Jordanian Arabic version (JAESP) of the ESP test and to check its usefulness.

Methods

The JAESP test encompasses four categories: detection of speech sounds, speech pattern perception, disyllabic word identification, and monosyllabic word identification. Picture boards representing the test materials were created and two equivalent lists for each test category were made. The word identification task was used to test a total of 43 children with reported normal hearing abilities (15 children aged 3 years, 15 aged 4 years, and 13 aged 5 years).

Results

The scores for all age groups were 98∼100% for all test materials. Statistical analysis showed that there was no significant difference between age groups and between lists (p ˃ 0.05).

Conclusion

The findings of this study indicate that the JAESP test materials are appropriate for Jordanian children who are at least 3 years old. Additional studies are needed to verify the validity of the test materials for Jordanian hearing-impaired children.

中文翻译：

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开发约旦阿拉伯语早期语音感知测试。

介绍

早期语音感知（ESP）测试以前曾用于评估听力受损儿童的语音感知能力。众所周知，阿拉伯语是一种难懂的语言，因此本研究的目的是开发ESP测试的约旦约旦阿拉伯语版本（JAESP）并检查其有效性。

方法

JAESP测试包含四类：语音检测，语音模式感知，双音节单词识别和单音节单词识别。创建了代表测试材料的画板，并为每个测试类别制作了两个等效的列表。单词识别任务用于测试总共43名具有正常听力能力的儿童（15名3岁儿童，15名4岁儿童和13名5岁儿童）。

结果

所有测试材料的所有年龄段得分均为98％至100％。统计分析表明，年龄组之间和列表之间没有显着差异（p˃0.05）。

结论

这项研究的结果表明，JAESP测试材料适用于至少3岁的约旦儿童。需要进一步的研究以验证测试材料对约旦听力受损儿童的有效性。