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Introducing Speech Audiometry in Albanian Language

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Research Article | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2835-7957/038

Introducing Speech Audiometry in Albanian Language

  • Xhuvani Adrian 1*
  • Ferrary Evelyne 2
  • Vasili Dritan 3
  • Hervochon Remi 1
  • Beci Bahri 6
  • Boci Besim 7
  • Tankere Frederic 1

1 ENT Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

2 Technologies etv thérapie génique pour la surdité, Institut de l’audition, Pasteur/INSERM, Paris, France.

3 ENT Department Salus Hospital, Tirana, Albania.

4 ENT Department, Hygeia Hospital, Tirana, Albania.

5 Phonetician, Paris, France.

6 ENT Department Mother Theresa Hospital, Tirana, Albania.

*Corresponding Author: Xhuvani Adrian, ENT Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Citation: Xhuvani Adrian, Ferrary Evelyne, Vasili Dritan, Sulaj Holta, Hervochon Remi, et al (2023), Introducing Speech Audiometry in Albanian Language, Clinical Reviews and Case Reports, 2(6); DOI:10.31579/2835-7957/038

Copyright: © 2023, Xhuvani Adrian. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Received: 14 August 2023 | Accepted: 28 August 2023 | Published: 11 October 2023

Keywords: speech audiometry; albania; audiology; pediatrics

Abstract

There are no validated speech audiometry lists of words in Albanian. The aim of this study was to create and evaluate lists of words for children and young adults with normal hearing.

In total, 20 lists of 10 spondaic dissyllabic words were created, taking into account the idiosyncrasies of the Albanian Language. Eighty-three (83) young adults and eighty-six (86) children were included in this study from November 2018 to November 2019. For each patient’s ear the difference between the Speech Recognition Threshold (SRT) and the Pure Tone Average threshold (PTA) was calculated to analyse if the value was less or equal to 7 dB in order to validate the 20 wordlists. 

The psychometric function slope of the resulted speech audiometry graph was also calculated to compare it with the ones of other Indo-European languages.

The difference between the SRT and PTA was 3.2 +/- 2.1 dB in adults and 3.3 + /- 2.4 dB in children. A value ≤ 7 dB was observed in 93 % of adults and 92% of children. The psychometric function slope was 7.3%/ dB in adults and 7.9%/ dB in children, similar to those found in other Indo-European languages.

Speech audiometry in the Albanian Language can now be performed using the lists defined in the present study.

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