Age-Related Maturation of Antiphasic Arabic Digits-in-Noise Thresholds in Children.
Purpose: Pediatric data in Arabic are largely absent from the digits-in-noise (DIN) literature, representing a critical gap in knowledge. This study aimed to describe the developmental patterns of Arabic antiphasic DIN thresholds in children aged 5–17 years, determine the age at which DIN thresholds...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 7; pp. 3466 - 3483 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=195295687&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 195295687 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 69 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 195295687 10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00742 ppf: 3466 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Age-Related Maturation of Antiphasic Arabic Digits-in-Noise Thresholds in Children. aug: au: Ewaida, Alaa Guest, Hannah Plack, Christopher J. Jaber, Aseel Jamal, Alaa Mitwasi, Elissa Stephan, Lourd Zaheh, Kefaya Basem, Feda Loukieh, Stephanie Abdulhaq, Nadia Shehabi, Adnan M. affil: Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Department of Audiology and Speech Therapy, Birzeit University, Palestine. Communication Development Center for Speech and Hearing, Ramallah, Palestine. su: Palestine Cross-sectional method Task performance Age distribution Child development Arabs Hearing Auditory perception testing Research funding Noise Data analysis Descriptive statistics Audiometry Speech audiometry Statistics Hearing levels Speech perception Reaction time Comparative studies Confidence intervals Data analysis software sug: subj: Cross-sectional method Task performance Age distribution Child development Arabs Hearing Palestine Auditory perception testing Research funding Noise Data analysis Descriptive statistics Audiometry Speech audiometry Statistics Hearing levels Speech perception Reaction time Comparative studies Confidence intervals Data analysis software ab: Purpose: Pediatric data in Arabic are largely absent from the digits-in-noise (DIN) literature, representing a critical gap in knowledge. This study aimed to describe the developmental patterns of Arabic antiphasic DIN thresholds in children aged 5–17 years, determine the age at which DIN thresholds converge with adult levels, and characterize age-related changes in task performance metrics, including response time, response time variability, psychometric function slopes, and digit-position effects. Method: Audiometrically normal Arabic-speaking children (n = 65) and adults (n = 33) completed antiphasic DIN testing. Age-related trends were analyzed to identify the onset of adultlike performance, with thresholds beyond this point compared to adults using equivalence testing. Exploratory analyses estimated developmental inflection points via segmented regression and reported effect sizes with confidence intervals. Further supplementary analyses examined age-related trends in response times, response time variability, psychometric slopes, and effects of digit position (1/2/3) on response accuracy. Results: Most 5-year-olds were unable to complete the DIN task, but thresholds approached adultlike levels from the age of 10 years, with evidence of equivalence from the age of 13 years within predefined bounds. Exploratory segmented regression suggested inflection points near the ages of 6 and 10 years, although confidence intervals were wide for the latter. Increasing age was linked to faster and more consistent responses with less consistent evidence for changes in psychometric slope. Response accuracy in the youngest children varied by digit position. Conclusions: Findings indicate rapid maturation of antiphasic Arabic DIN performance, with task acquisition emerging in early school age and near-adult thresholds observed in early adolescence. The observed developmental pattern likely reflects a combination of auditory and task-related cognitive and linguistic factors; however, these processes were not directly assessed in the present study and should be interpreted cautiously. These results provide provisional developmental reference points and require validation and test optimization in children with hearing loss before pediatric hearing screening implementation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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