Visual reinforcement audiometry is the appropriate conditioned behavioural hearing test for children in which age range?

• A 6 months to 2 years ✓
• B Birth to 5 months
• C 3 to 5 years
• D Above 6 years

Explanation

From about 6 months of age a child can make a reliable head-turn toward a sound source, and visual reinforcement audiometry pairs that turn with a lighted toy reward, giving valid frequency-specific thresholds up to about 2 years. Below 6 months only observation of reflexive responses (behavioural observation audiometry) is possible, and from roughly 2 to 5 years play audiometry, in which the child performs a task on hearing the tone, replaces it.

Reference: Katz, Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 7th ed.

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