SA Importance
The assessment of a patient’s ability to detect and understand speech
What is speech audiometry?
Spondee Words are
What is phonetically balanced?
What are the two ways to present speech stimuli
What is live voice and recorded?
SDT stands for
What is speech detection threshold?
Crucial for language development
What is hearing and understanding speech?
Word list used to assess how well an adult understands speech at a comfortable listening level
What is the NU-6?
Beginning presentation level for WRS
What is a comfortable listening level?
SRT stands for
What is speech recognition threshold?
One reason to complete speech audiometry with pediatrics
What is to monitor performance over time?
Cowboy is an example of a
What is a spondee word?
Decrease the presentation level when trying to determine what?
What is a patient's SRT?
WRS stands for
What is word recognition score?
Benefit of cross-checking speech audiometry with pure-tone audiometry
identify potentially hidden abnormality like retro-cochlear involvement
identify malingerer
Word list used to assess speech understanding of a child in kindergarten
What is the PBK-50?
Purpose of presenting words when VU meter is at 0 when using monitored live voice
What is to prevent attenuation and increase reliability?
A type of noise used to simulate real world listening experience during speech audiometry
What is white noise?