Ling 6 Sound Test

Content

Peter Keen, qualified Educational Audiologist, will discuss the use of Ling 6 Sound test by educational professionals. The Ling 6 sound test is a daily hearing aid check that is used to see if key speech sounds can be heard.

Ling 6 Sound test is a tool that evaluates how well children hear in everyday settings with their hearing aids or cochlear implant. The test is a behavioural listening test that uses simple sounds to detect changes in the quality of a child's hearing. The test should be completed when you suspect a child is not hearing as well as they normally do. The sounds used for the Ling 6 Sound Test are: ahh, eee, ooo, mmm, shh, and sss. These sounds broadly represent the sounds needed to hear spoken language.

We recommend reading in advance of the webinar, Peter's recent BATOD magazine article on the Ling 6 Sound test.

Target Audience

Qualified teachers of the deaf, teachers of the deaf in training, early years practitioners, audiologists, speech & language therapists, support staff and class teachers.

Presenter

Peter Keen, Consultant Educational Audiologist, Keenhearing

Previous employment includes Mary Hare Grammar School; Head of Secondary School St Thomas' School for Deaf Children; Lead Educational Audiologist SMT Specialist Teacher Advisory Service, Hampshire; Deputy Director of Educational Development & Inclusion (Audiology) Mary Hare Training.

"I have had a number of articles published in the BATOD magazine on Audiological matters and have produced:

• a Consonantal Speech Banana (based on the research of others)
• a version of the Count-the-Dot Audiogram (with permission from Professors Killian & Mueller)
• a frequency analysis of vowels in English with a timeline for following Infant spontaneous development
• an Analysis of the Ling 6 Sound Test
• the Target Graph for comparing speech & language test results over time (0-8yrs, then 0-16 years)
the Keen Profile which brings together speech & language (including Phonology) development related to acoustics & hearing provision etc.

I have also compiled advice about Lipreading, Assessing deaf children, tests and methods, Using Sound Level Meters, Conducting Speech Discrimination Tests (tips and pitfalls), and am author of Hearing & Age Related Phonological Analysis (HARPA).

For over 20 years I had a caseload of deaf children from 0-18 yrs old that I had helped to diagnose and had supported over time which enabled me to research the factors which contributed to their good speech and language perception and development. I have continuous test results (Audiological and Speech & Language) demonstrating year on year development for these children. I also have results of some children where (as with some hearing children) this has not happened and my analyses of why."