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| What Is Speech Audiometry? |
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Procedures that use speech to assess
auditory function and measures sensitivity (threshold) and clarity (suprathreshold) |
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| The lowest level of sound intensity in decibels at which a person identifies a spoken word 50% of the time; don't have to repeat the word back; just acknowledge that they heard something |
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| Speech Detection Threshold (SDT) |
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| is the softest intensity spondee words that an individual can repeat at least 50% of the time. Spondees are bisyllabic words equally emphasizing both syllables. |
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| Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) |
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Advantages of Recorded Materials:
Available for ___ or ___ speakers
___ recorded
Intensity level calibrated and ___
Variability in patient performance
___ permitting comparison of test
results over time
Speech materials are the same
-Each ___ used in clinic
-From one ___ to the ___ |
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| male or female; Professionally; consistent; minimized; time; clinic; next |
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Presentation Level:
Normal hearing listeners
-Achieve maximal performance for WRS at
___ to ___ dB SL (sensation level re:SRT)
Often used to obtain ___ ___ ___
-Single level may provide ___ information |
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SRT:
___ words-Two syllable words with equal stress on
each syllable
Use approximately ___ words
___ patients and ___ with words
Make patient aware words will become
very ___, it is ok to guess |
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| Spondaic; 15; Instruct; familiarize; soft |
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SRT Calculation Example:
40 dB, 5 correct
35 dB, 3 correct
30 dB, 0 correct
5 + 3 = 8 (number of correct words)
40 (starting level) – 8 = 32 + 2 correction
factor = 34 dB HL |
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Function of SRT:
___ ___ for PTA
Reference for ___ measures
Assessing response ___ |
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| Cross validation; suprathreshold; reliability |
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| Level at which best word recognition score in quiet is obtained |
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PB Max:
Normal hearing approximately __-__ dB SL
re:SRT
Must test more than ___ level |
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Decrease in word recognition score of
20% or greater at louder levels (for
monosyllabic word lists) |
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PAL PB-50:
___ words divided into 20 lists of 50
words
___ ___ – proportionally
correct representation of phonetic
elements in English discourse
JP Egan (1948) |
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| 1,000; Phonetically balanced |
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What test does this describe?
First clinically accepted sentence test
10 lists of 10 sentences with 50 key words in
each list
Calculated as percent correct for key words |
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CID Everyday Sentences, Silvermann and Hirsh
(1955) |
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Sentence Tests
Provide a more ___ ___ listening
situation
Provide semantic, syntactic and lexical
clues (may be evaluating top-down
processing)
As sentence length grows, ___ needs
grow
Typically too easy creating ___ effect |
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| real world; memory; ceiling |
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Nonsense Syllable Tests
Reduce ___ context
Allows detailed examination of ___
errors
Clinical use occurred beginning in the
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Speech Recognition in Noise
Primary complaint of patients – difficulty
hearing in ___
Prior to ___ ___ technology
(1990s) for hearing aids, nothing we could do
about difficulty in noise, so we didn’t test it
Now, directional microphones, ___ ___ algorithms, digital signal ___
___ to measure speech in noise |
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noise; directional microphone; noise
reduction; processing; Important |
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Puretone thresholds and WRS in quiet do
not predict ___ person with hearing
loss has in noise
Since we can’t predict ability of an
individual in noise (real-life situations) using
puretone thresholds and speech in quiet,
we should measure ___ ___ ___ |
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| difficulty; speech in noise |
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What kind of tests are these?
Synthetic Sentence Identification
Speech Perception in Noise
The Connected Speech Test |
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Comparisons
Wilson and McArdle (2005)
Both sentences and words in noise ___ ___ to effects of hearing loss |
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