1Lt Malisha Patel and 1Lt Matthew Williams
Audiologists have traditionally used monosyllabic words to test word recognition in a quiet setting. This can be useful in the clinic because it provides additional information about the person’s hearing loss when compared to their pure tone average (PTA). However the everyday listening environment is not a quiet, controlled setting. In addition, conversational speech is usually in sentence form rather than single words. Therefore sentence testing may provide a more realistic measure of a person’s ability to understand speech in noise. Our research is focusing on the effectiveness and efficiency of adding a sentence test to the clinical audiology test battery and what additional information it may provide.
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