[Dichotic listening performance in children--development of a reliable test (author's transl)]. / Untersuchung Zur Dichotischen Hörleistung Bei Kindern--Entwicklung Von Testverfahren.

ABSTRACT

With a new developed and reliable dichotic test (one part monosyllable words, other part monosyllable digits) we could show a significant Right-Ear-Advantage (REA) in children from age six to eight. The determination of an auditory-dominance-index (DI)--in analogy to the DI of handedness by Schilling (1977)--made it possible to determine the different degrees of REA/LEA in individuals or groups. Within the near future the auditory-dominance-index could be an important measure in diagnosis and therapy of child development (i.e. discrimination of language features like phonematics, syntax, semantic, and their lateralisation within ages) as far as standard-scales for all-over-accuity and lateralisation will exist. Our test is the first step to do this.