The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of using an FM auditory trainer on the speech intelligibility with unilateral hearing loss. Half lists of the NU-6 was administered to 20 normal hearing adults under the following conditions: binaurally (quiet and noise), one ear occluded without and FM auditory trainer (quiet and noise), and one ear occluded with an FM auditory trainer (quiet and noise). The occlusion of the right and left ears was performed in order to control for the dominance of the right ear in speech discrimination under noise.The results indicated a significant improvement in speech discrimination when an FM auditory trainer is used with the unilaterally hearing impaired. / Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/183708 |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Creators | Eley, Cynthia S. |
| Contributors | Ball State University. Dept. of Speech Pathology & Audiology., Updike, Claudia D. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | iii, 55 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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