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 comfortable listening level (MCL) and loudness discomfort listening level (LDL); immittance testing including tympanograms, acoustic reflex thresholds, and reflex decay.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500231 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Dye, Amy |
| Contributors | Jacquot, Willard S., Larson, George W., Haynes, Jack Read |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | v, 52 leaves : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Dye, Amy, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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