Time-Compressed Speech Test in Kannada for Children

Abstract

The study aimed at developing a time-compressed speech test in Kannada for children and establishes norms on a group of children. The developed test consisted of four lists. Each list had 25 eve words that were phonemically balanced. These word lists were compressed at four different levels 0%, 40%, 50% and 60%. The developed test material was administered on 60 normal hearing children in the age range of 7 to 12 years. It was found that with increase in compression level the scores generally dropped. There was significant decrease in performance seen with increase in the level of compression in all age groups except the oldest group. Generally the results indicated that as the age increased performance on the time-compressed speech test also increased. However there was no significant difference between the lists and gender.