The new Mainz speech test for children 3-7 years old (MATCH) : Design, standardization, and validation.

Objective: To develop a new, German, age-appropriate speech audiometry test for children, by using 26 nouns that are most likely part of the lexicon of 2-year-olds. The test is a picture-pointing task with a four-option non-forced choice method.

Materials And Methods: In total, 179 children aged 2;11 to 6;9 y were included for standardizing and validating the speech test.

[The new Mainz speech test for children aged 3-7 years (MATCH) : Design, standardization, and validation. German version].

Objective: A new German speech audiometry test was developed using 26 nouns that are most likely part of the lexicon of 2‑year-old children. The test was a picture-pointing task using a four-alternative non-forced choice method.

Materials And Methods: In total, 179 children aged 2 years 11 months to 6 years 9 months were included to standardize and validate the speech test.

Phonological awareness in German-speaking preschool children with cochlear implants - 3 case examples.

Objective: The aim was to explore PA skills German-speaking preschool children with cochlea implants (CIs) and how these skills may be related to their speech and language skills.

Methods: Three monolingual German-speaking pre-school children aged 5;04-6;01 with bilateral CIs were tested. Their cognitive, speech and language skills were assessed.

Development and evaluation of the LittlEARS Early Speech Production Questionnaire - LEESPQ.

Objective: Universal Newborn Hearing Screening programs, now instituted throughout the German-speaking countries, allow hearing loss to be detected and treated much earlier than ever before. With this earlier detection, arises the need for tools fit for assessing the very early speech and language production development of today's younger (0-18 month old) children. We have created the LittlEARS Early Speech Production Questionnaire, with the aim of meeting this need.