Normative data of the A(section)E discrimination and identification tests in preverbal children.

The A(section)E((R)) is a set of suprathreshold tests for the auditory evaluation of the hearing impaired. A particular population of interest is the hearing-impaired preverbal child. This paper reports on normative data of the A(section)E((R)) discrimination test in children aged 10 months and of the A(section)E((R)) identification tests in children aged 2 to 4 years. Normally hearing children of these ages were tested and pass criteria were defined in such a way that 95% of the hearing infants would pass the tests. With these criteria, the A(section)E((R)) discrimination test is feasible at 10 months of age and the A section signE((R)) identification test from 30 months of age.