Speech Audiometry

Question 1

Speech Recognition Threshold

Answer 1

Lowest intensity at which a subject can understand/ recognize speech material (spondaic words)

Question 2

Spondee

Answer 2

Word with two syllables, both pronounced with equal stress

Question 3

What is the importance of SRT?

Answer 3

Helps establish degree of communication difficulty

Question 4

Word Recognition Score

Answer 4

Percentage of correctly identified speech material at a supra threshold level

Question 5

What speech material is used for WRS?

Answer 5

Phonetically balanced monosyllables words

Question 6

What does WRS Show us

Answer 6

How well the patient identifies words at a suprathreshold level

Question 7

What is the purpose of the WRS

Answer 7

To aid in diagnosis of the site of the disorder in the auditory system
To assist in the determination of the need for and proper selection of amplification systems

Question 8

What is pure tone average

Answer 8

Three frequency average (500, 1000, and 2000) major frequencies of speech

PTA and SRT are usually at 0 - 6 dB of each other (at a good agreement)

Question 9

Speech testing results for normal Hearing

Answer 9

SRT and PTA are at 0-6 dB of each other

WRS 96-100