Comparison of Selected Pure-Tone and Speech Tests in Predicting Hearing Handicap
Description:
This study assessed the effective use of pure-tone testing versus speech testing as used to predict the degree of hearing handicap experienced by an individual. Twenty-one subjects over the age of 65 were tested. Each subject was administered the following test battery: spondee threshold; a pure-tone evaluation, including air and bone conduction; Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) test; Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) test; NU-6 for speech discrimination; establishment of most comfortabl…
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Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Dye, Amy
Partner:
UNT Libraries