speech testing

Question 1

why is speech audiometry important?

Answer 1

evaluates real life speech lisitening situations.

has important rehabilitation function used for therapy planning and counseling

Question 2

certain types of speech audiometry testing

Answer 2

nonsense syllables, words, sentences

Question 3

speech audiometry testing source

Answer 3

MLV (monitored live voice, speaking thru a britney spears head set), or recorded

Question 4

what is SRT

Answer 4

speech reception threshold, softest level that the stimulus can be repeated/understood 50% of the time

Question 5

what is PTA

Answer 5

pure tone audiometry

Question 6

PTA vs SRT

Answer 6

comparison to see how reliable the results are. they should be similar.
difference of 6 dbHL is good
difference of 7-12is dbHLfair
difference of 13 or above is bad

Question 7

list length (variables of Speech Testing)

Answer 7

50 words but most often use 25

Question 8

method of response (variables of Speech Testing)

Answer 8

verbal or written

Question 9

intensity level (variables of Speech Testing)

Answer 9

40 dbHL, 50 dbHL (convo speech), 35dbHL (soft speech) and can add background nosie for more of a challenge

Question 10

typical speech recognition stimuli

Answer 10

SR list is phonetically balanced, composed to contain all phonetic aspects of english language

Question 11

special SR stimuli

Answer 11

high freq word list (used for sloping high freq hearing loss), nonsense words, speech in noise (for trouble with background noise),pediatric word list

Question 12

speech rec intensity- is loud always better?

Answer 12

no louder is not always better