5.5. Sentence testing
This section is still under development.
Bamford-Kowal-Bench (BKB) Sentence Test
Lists of 10 sentences, each containing 50 key words put together by Bamford Kowal and Bench (BKB) for testing the ability of deaf children (usually >8 years old) to hear words in sentences. 聽聽The test is scored by asking the child to repeat the spoken sentence and identifying the correctly spoken target words. 聽The final score is the number of correctly identified words from the list of 50 expressed as a percentage. 聽The test can be administered in quiet conditions or in presence of background noise.
For more information:
Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss –聽Functional Listening Eval Demo Recorded Sentences 2 min (Youtube video)
Next pages in this section
5.6 Automated tests
5.7 Parent/guardian reports (under construction)
5.8 Teacher reports聽(under construction)
5.9 Children and young people reports 聽(under construction)
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Other sections
- Section 1聽Anatomy and physiology of the ear
- Section 2聽Aetiology and types of deafness
- Section 3聽Auditory perception and hearing testing
- Section 4聽Acoustics and physics of sound
- Section 6聽Hearing technologies
