Author: Vicki Ann LipptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A Study of the Speech Discrimination Ability of Subjects Exhibiting High Frequency Hearing Loss Utilizing a Closed Message Set Test
Author: Vicki Ann LipptonHearing Loss
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309092965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.
The Ability of Mildly Hearing-impaired Individuals to Discriminate Speech in Noise
Author: Alice Harriet SuterPublisher:
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Category : Audiometry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Study of Speech Discrimination Ability of Pupils Within a Classroom Environment
Author: Lucille Bertha StrohbeenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Comparative Investigation of Speech Discrimination Ability
Author: Robert Clyde RhodesA Comparison of Speech Discrimination Ability for Simulated and Real Hearing Loss at 3 and 6 KHz
Author: Russell L. SergeantPublisher:
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Category : Deafness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enlisted submariners with high-frequency hearing loss (ave. of 22, 45 and 60 decibels at 3, 4 and 6 kiloHertz, respectively) performed poorer than a normal-hearing control group by 6.2 percentage points on rather easy tests of speech intelligibility, and by 5 percentage points on rather difficult tests containing speech in background noise. The performance of the hearing-loss group, however, for the easier tests exceeded by 12.7 points that of another normal-hearing control group in which the hearing loss was simulated by filtering. The hearing-loss subjects may be experience have compensated to some extent in easier situations for their defect. This was not true for the more difficult situations. (Author).
The Utilization of a Combined Auditory and Visual Test of Discrimination Ability with People Wearing Hearing Aids as a Measure of Communication Effectiveness
Author: Hinda KahnPublisher:
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Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Discrimination by Normally Hearing Subjects for Filtered Speech Under Conditions of Hearing Aid Amplification
Author: Constance Rae WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hearing
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Speech Discrimination of the Hearing-impaired in Noise: Its Relationship to Other Audiometric Parameters
Author: Mark RossSpeech Recognition by the Hearing Impaired
Author: Earleen ElkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auditory perception
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description