Title: Observational Study to Preliminarily Characterize the Audiological Profile of Children With Down Syndrome
Authors: Heather Porter, Emily Buss, Gabrielle R. Merchant, and Lori J. Leibold
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2022), 65(11), 4498–4506
https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00023
An error was discovered in the reporting of 13 speech intelligibility index (SII) values following publication affecting some of the values reported in Table 2 and portions of the manuscript including discussion of SII values. Regarding corrections to the text, five children had an unaided SII < 80 in at least one ear meeting criteria for amplification based on SII values, as opposed to seven as stated in the original manuscript. In addition, two children had an unaided SII < 80 bilaterally as opposed to four as stated in the original manuscript. The study conclusions remain unchanged.
Table 2.
Air-conduction thresholds, speech intelligibility index values (SII; reported as unaided and aided, as indicated), and hearing status.
| Age (years) | Left ear |
Right ear |
|---|---|---|
| SII unaided (aided) | ||
| 5.6 | 96 | 96 |
| 6.0 | 100 | 100 |
| 7.9 | 93 | 94 |
| 9.3 | 98 | 99 |
| 10.1 | 99 | 99 |
| 10.7 | 81 | 89 |
| 10.7 | 88 | 96 |
| 10.9 | 100 | 99 |
| 12.1 | 0 (41) | 98 |
| 12.3 | 74 | 95 |
| 13.2 | ||
| 16.6 | 97 | 41 |
| 16.8 | 98 | 99 |
| 16.8 | 35 | 8 |
| 17.2 | 24 (94) | 60 |
Table 2
In Table 2, items in the “SII unaided (aided)” columns have been corrected. Changes are shown in bold font.
Results and Discussion
In the Results and Discussion section, the third and fourth sentences of the Speech Audibility subsection should read as follows:
In this study, five participants had an unaided SII < 80 in at least one ear; two of these participants had an unaided SII < 80 bilaterally. However, just two of the five participants with an unaided SII < 80 used amplification; in both cases a hearing aid was used just in the poorer hearing ear.
Funding Statement
Support for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Health INCLUDE Project (3R01DC01138-10S1) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (5P20GN10923-08).