(DE) G-O-H: Indirect Hearing Screening for children

The GOH Speech Hearing Screening Process is a new, indirect solution for quick and friendly assessment of speech hearing in young children ages 4 and up. It is mainly used by speech therapists and  speech-language pathologists.  The procedure was developed in 1984-85 in the Phonetics Laboratory of the Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1988 it received Hungarian patent protection (Registration number: 193211). The principle of the procedure is completely different from the traditional sinusoidal method, it uses synthetic speech items made by a formant synthesiser. The spectral content of the synthesized syllables are carefully planned so they have special acoustic structure with less redundant frequency elements. During the measurement the child listens to synthesised syllables through headphones and has to say back what she/he heard. If the hearing mechanism of the child is OK, she/he tells back that syllable that was transmitted through the headset. If she/he tells another syllable back, there may have been a problem in the hearing mechanism. The measurement results (the spoken answers) are marked by hand on the GOH evaluation sheet by the assistant. The right and left ear are examined separately. One complete measurement takes 3-4 minutes. This is a fun activity for children. 

The software development of the goh-test-de.exe program was partly supported by the European Union's HORIZON Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101120657, project ENFIELD (European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI)

G-O-H HÖRTEST FÜR KINDER

Für Kleinkinder ist ein Hörscreening bereits sehr wichtig. Mit dem Computerprogramm goh-test-de.exe kann das Gehör eines Kindes ab dem 4. Lebensjahr gemessen werden. Dies ist ein Spiel für die Kinder. Der Test misst das rechte Ohr separat und das linke Ohr separat. Über Kopfhörer spielen wir den Kindern einsilbige Wörter vor. Die Wörter wurden mit Computer nach speziellen phonetischen Kriterien generiert, synthetisiert. 
Das Kind wird gebeten, das gehörte Wort sofort laut zu wiederholen. Die Antwort wird vom Assistenten aufgezeichnet (aufgeschrieben). Anhand der Antworten kann die Fachkraft feststellen, ob das Kind Hörprobleme hat. Für die Durchführung des Tests am Computer ist keine vorherige Schulung erforderlich. Der Test dauert maximal 3 Minuten/Person.