[Dichotic hearing test in 750 German school-children (author's transl)]

Dichotic tests, according to Feldmann 1965, were carried out within a main highschool of Munich (W.-Germany). Over 750 school-children ranging from 6-17 years in age were tested in pure tone audiometry and dichotic Feldmann test. The result showed a poor reproduction of words in the dichotic test in age groups under 10 years. The conclusion seems to be that the single words of this dichotic test are 1. too difficult, 2. without real meaning, 3. hard to grasp or 4. without worthy motivation in these children. A new test for children is required to cope with the difficulties of speech assessment in young school-children.