1Lt Catherine Wynn
Word recognition is one of the critical measures of speech perception most commonly used in a standard audiometric test battery. Traditionally, this test is performed presenting lists of 25 or 50 phonetically balanced monosyllabic words. The purpose of this study is to determine if the speech recognition scores obtained using the 25-word Northwestern University (NU–6) list is equivalent to the scores obtained using the AB 10-word list created by Arthur Boothroyd. If results indicate scores are equivalent, using the AB list would save critical clinic time without sacrificing reliability.