Assessing Language Skills as a Predictor of Children’s Listening Difficulties: Validation and Reference Data on a New Auditory Language Task
AudiCloze is the first validated language assessment tool specifically developed for audiologists to assess children as young as six years old to use their knowledge of language when listening in acoustically challenging situations. Language skills are crucial for children's sentence intelligibility in noise and reverberation. Being able to detect language deficits in children referred for an auditory processing assessment should facilitate referral of children who need specialist language assessment and intervention and hence improve outcomes for these children.
Authors
- Xiaofang Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6343-1455)
- Antje Heinrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5940-622X)
- Dani Tomlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-8807)
- Grace Nixon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4106-6554)
- Kelly Burgoyne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8765-5154)
- Harvey Dillon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7036-7890)
- Helen Gurteen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2924-2802)
- Alisha Isaac Gudkar
Institutions
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Macquarie University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ear and Hearing
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001715
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.89