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Abstract Otitis media is a common otological manifestation, is estimated between 79 and 95 percent of children, most of the cases are left undiagnosed on account of awareness and negligence in seeking early medical attention for trivial ailments untreated or recurrent, it might end up in serious consequences in the form of poor speech and intellectual development(Farida et al, 2006). Persistent OME have impaired perception in noise in preschool children and so speech and language abnormalities(Schilder et al, 1994). The study was designed to study performance of children with recurrent early OME on Pediatric speech intelligibility (PSI) and standardized speech perception in noise (SPIN) tests. Sixty children of Egyptian population of two groups; the study group (Forty children with early OME) and the control group (Twenty normal children) with normal peripheral hearing, normal intelligence with ages ranging from 3-7 years dealt as one group. All children were sumitted to full history taking, otological examination, basic audiological evaluation, PSI and SPIN tests. The equipment used were two channel pure tone and speech, Madsen audiometer, acoustic immittancemeter; GSI Tympstar, two channel Panasonic Stereo cassette, model RX-Ct 870 connected to the audiometer and adjusted to deliver recorded speech materials, sound treated booth model Amplisilence S.P.A-10070 and the two channel tape of Arabic PSI test |