The Validity of New Material for Nasalance Evaluation and the Characteristics of Nasalance Scores in Children
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2017.05.005
- VernacularTitle:学龄儿童鼻流量测试材料的效度验证及鼻流量值特征研究
- Author:
Hakyung KIM
;
Fenfen HUI
;
Qin WAN
;
Yiwen ZHANG
;
Zhaoming HUANG
- Keywords:
Normal school children;
Score of mean nasalance;
Gender;
Age
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2017;25(5):460-464
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the validity of a new material, to verify the influence of gender and age differences on normal school children, and give advice to establishing the norms of mean nasalance for normal school children.Methods The mean nasalance of 190 school children in Shanghai was obtained by reading the new, old material and the vowel /a/,/o/,/e/,/i/,/u/, and /ü/, the mean nasalance was analyzed for the standard deviations.The gender and age score differences were compared.Results The new material was more stable than the old.In the test of /i/ and/ü/and the nasal material, the girls'' MNS was higher than the boys''.In testing the vowels /a/,/o/,/e/,/i/,/u/, and /ü/and the new material, there were differences in different ages.Conclusion The validity of new material is more stable than the old.The MNS of the normal children in Shanghai show that it is higher for the girls than the boys, and also higher for the older children than for the younger.
