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Abstract
Otitis media is a common otological manifestation, is estimated between
79 and 95 percent of children, most of the cases are left undiagnosed on
account of awareness and negligence in seeking early medical attention for
trivial ailments untreated or recurrent, it might end up in serious
consequences in the form of poor speech and intellectual development(Farida
et al, 2006).
Persistent OME have impaired perception in noise in preschool children
and so speech and language abnormalities(Schilder et al, 1994).
The study was designed to study performance of children with recurrent early
OME on Pediatric speech intelligibility (PSI) and standardized speech
perception in noise (SPIN) tests. Sixty children of Egyptian population of two
groups; the study group (Forty children with early OME) and the control
group (Twenty normal children) with normal peripheral hearing, normal
intelligence with ages ranging from 3-7 years dealt as one group.
All children were sumitted to full history taking, otological examination,
basic audiological evaluation, PSI and SPIN tests.
The equipment used were two channel pure tone and speech, Madsen
audiometer, acoustic immittancemeter; GSI Tympstar, two channel Panasonic
Stereo cassette, model RX-Ct 870 connected to the audiometer and adjusted
to deliver recorded speech materials, sound treated booth model
Amplisilence S.P.A-10070 and the two channel tape of Arabic PSI test