5.5. Sentence testing

This section is still under development.

Bamford-Kowal-Bench (BKB) Sentence Test

Lists of 10 sentences, each containing 50 key words put together by Bamford Kowal and Bench (BKB) for testing the ability of deaf children (usually >8 years old) to hear words in sentences.   The test is scored by asking the child to repeat the spoken sentence and identifying the correctly spoken target words.  The final score is the number of correctly identified words from the list of 50 expressed as a percentage.  The test can be administered in quiet conditions or in presence of background noise.

For more information:

The Functional Listening Evaluation (Hands and Voices)

Next pages in this section

5.6 Automated tests

5.7 Parent/guardian reports (under construction)

5.8 Teacher reports (under construction)

5.9 Children and young people reports  (under construction)

Previous pages in this section

5.1 Sound based testing

5.2 Toy based testing

5.3 Picture based testing

5.4 Single word testing

Other sections

• Section 1 Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Section 2 Aetiology and types of deafness
• Section 3 Auditory perception and hearing testing
• Section 4 Acoustics and physics of sound
• Section 6 Hearing technologies