BKB Test
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This is the BKB (Bamford-Kowal-Bench) sentence lists. The vocabulary used in the tests was chosen to suit that of partially hearing children aged 8 and above. The test can also be used with adults and children with normal hearing from the age of 5.
The original test consisted of 21 lists of 16 sentences. Each list has 50 key words to be scored. We have used 20 of the 21 available lists and split them into 4 groups of 5 lists. We are using the recordings developed by the Institute of Hearing Research, Medical Research Council (IHR/MRC) and University College London (UCL). These recordings are of both male and female speakers and can be used with any of our three background noises.
The test is scored by asking the child to repeat the spoken sentence and identifying the correctly spoken target words. The final score being the number of correctly identified words from the list of 50 expressed as a percentage. For example
| Spoken words | Max Score |
|---|---|
| the CLOWN had a FUNNY FACE | 3 |
| the CAR ENGINE’S RUNNING | 3 |
| SHE CUT with her KNIFE | 3 |
| CHILDREN LIKE STRAWBERRIES | 3 |
| the HOUSE had NINE ROOMS | 3 |
| THEY’RE BUYING some BREAD | 3 |
| the GREEN TOMATOES are SMALL | 3 |
| HE PLAYED with his TRAIN | 3 |
| the POSTMAN SHUT the GATE | 3 |
| THEY’RE LOOKING AT the CLOCK | 4 |
| the BAG BUMPS on the GROUND | 3 |
| the BOY DID a HANDSTAND | 3 |
| a CAT SITS ON the BED | 4 |
| the LORRY CARRIED FRUIT | 3 |
| the RAIN CAME DOWN | 3 |
| the ICE CREAM was PINK | 3 |
| TOTAL | 50 |
