Ninety‐six normally hearing children (24 each at ages 11, 13, 15, and 17 years) were individually administered the Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) Test (see preceding paper by Kalikow, Stevens, and Elliott) at signal‐to‐noise (SIN) levels of 5, 0, and −5 dB in counterbalanced order and in quiet. Their task was to repeat the last word of each sentence. Average performance of the 17‐year old Ss was very similar to performance of adults on all conditions. An age effect appeared in the results for the high‐predictability sentences at 0‐dB S/N level, with younger Ss showing poorer performance. This age effect was specific to the listening‐in‐noise condition, since the 11‐year‐old Ss demonstrated perfect or near perfect scores when later tested in quiet. Implications of these findings will be discussed and the results of testing some children with learning disabilities will also be presented. [Supported by a grant from B.E.H.]