Tehran University of Medical Sciences Auditory and Vestibular Research 2423-480X 22 1 2017 07 31 85 94 Sanaz Soltanparast Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Zahra Jafari Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Seyed Jalal Sameni Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran Masoud Salehi Department of Statistics and Mathematics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran 2017 05 30 Background and Aim: Sustained attention refers to the ability to maintain attention in target stimuli over a sustained period of time. This study was conducted to develop a Persian version of the sustained auditory attention capacity test and to study its results in normal children. Methods: To develop the Persian version of the sustained auditory attention capacity test, like the original version, speech stimuli were used. The speech stimuli consisted of one hundred monosyllabic words consisting of a 20 times random of and repetition of the words of a 21-word list of monosyllabic words, which were randomly grouped together. The test was carried out at comfortable hearing level using binaural, and diotic presentation modes on 46 normal children of 7 to 11 years of age of both gender. Results: There was a significant difference between age, and an average of impulsiveness error score (p=0.004) and total score of sustained auditory attention capacity test (p=0.005). No significant difference was revealed between age, and an average of inattention error score and attention reduction span index. Gender did not have a significant impact on various indicators of the test. Conclusion: The results of this test on a group of normal hearing children confirmed its ability to measure sustained auditory attention capacity through speech stimuli. https://avr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/avr/article/view/337