PURPOSE: To investigate the performance of children with no hearing complaints with ages between 7 and 12 years on the Gaps-in-Noise (GIN) test. METHODS: All children were submitted to otoscopy, pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, acoustic immittance measures, and dichotic digits test. Only children who passed the previous audiological assessment carried out the GIN test (37 children - 20 who were enrolled in private schools, and 17 from public schools). As there was no difference between the performance of children from public and private schools, both groups were combined for the analysis. RESULTS: The following average values were found for performance on the GIN test: 7-year-olds (5.65 ms), 8-year-olds (5.12 ms), 9-year-olds (4.87 ms), 10-year-olds (5.1 ms), and children over 11 years old (4.75 ms). CONCLUSION: The mean gap detection threshold in the right ear was 5 ms and in the left ear, 5.19 ms. No age, gender, or ear effects were found for gap detection thresholds assessed by the GIN test.
Acoustic stimulation; Auditory perception; Hearing tests; Hearing; Child; Questionnaires
