Dichotic Word (CVC) Test for Native Hindi Speaking Children

Abstract

The study was aimed in developing dichotic word test for native Hindi speaking children and also to investigate the effect of list, gender, age and ear. The developed test consists of two lists of monosyllables with each list having 23 word pairs. These word pairs have equal duration and aligned in such a way that both words were presented dichotically at the same time. The developed test material was administered on five groups of normal hearing children (18 in each group) with the age range of 7 to 11.11 years. The results revealed significant influence of age and ear. As the age increased, the performance of the children also increased showing greater right ear score followed by left ear score and double correct score indicating the presence of right ear advantage. However, there was no significant influence of list and gender. This test can be administered on larger population for standardize and to be used as a clinical tool for assessment of central auditory processing disorder. This developed dichotic word test can be used in other clinical population such as learning disability, stutterer, ADHD.