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HIGH‐FREQUENCY CONSONANT WORD DISCRIMINATION LISTS IN HEARING AID EVALUATION

HIGH‐FREQUENCY CONSONANT WORD DISCRIMINATION LISTS IN HEARING AID EVALUATION 0360-9294/78/0403-009 1%02 00/0 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY Vol 4 No 3 Copynght 0 1978 by The Wilharns & Wilkins Co Prrnred in U S A HIGH-FREQUENCY CONSONANT WORD DISCRIMINATION LISTS IN HEARING AID EVALUATION LAURA B. DENNISON AND BEN R. KELLY Department of Special Education, East Tennessee State University Received January 22. 1978, accepted revised August 1, 1978 Significant advances in hearing aid technology cies may mask out the higher frequencies and, and fitting techniques have occurred in the past therefore, mask the information-bearing elements few years. As a result of these advances, patients of speech (Harrison, 1975). who were not good candidates for hearing aid Pascoe (1975) conducted a study to determine usage a few years ago could now be fitted success- the effects of the frequency response of a hearing fully. One such advance was the high-frequency aid upon the speech perception of the hearing- emphasis hearing aid fitting. This fitting is cur- impaired person. Two types of word lists were rently being applied to the patients at Mountain compared in quiet and in noise, a high-frequency Home Veterans Administration Center who have word list and a phonetically balanced word list. a high-frequency hearing loss. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Audiology Society Wolters Kluwer Health

HIGH‐FREQUENCY CONSONANT WORD DISCRIMINATION LISTS IN HEARING AID EVALUATION

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Copyright 1978 by The Williams & Wilkins Co.
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0360-9294/78/0403-009 1%02 00/0 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AUDITORY SOCIETY Vol 4 No 3 Copynght 0 1978 by The Wilharns & Wilkins Co Prrnred in U S A HIGH-FREQUENCY CONSONANT WORD DISCRIMINATION LISTS IN HEARING AID EVALUATION LAURA B. DENNISON AND BEN R. KELLY Department of Special Education, East Tennessee State University Received January 22. 1978, accepted revised August 1, 1978 Significant advances in hearing aid technology cies may mask out the higher frequencies and, and fitting techniques have occurred in the past therefore, mask the information-bearing elements few years. As a result of these advances, patients of speech (Harrison, 1975). who were not good candidates for hearing aid Pascoe (1975) conducted a study to determine usage a few years ago could now be fitted success- the effects of the frequency response of a hearing fully. One such advance was the high-frequency aid upon the speech perception of the hearing- emphasis hearing aid fitting. This fitting is cur- impaired person. Two types of word lists were rently being applied to the patients at Mountain compared in quiet and in noise, a high-frequency Home Veterans Administration Center who have word list and a phonetically balanced word list. a high-frequency hearing loss.

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Journal of the American Audiology Society – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: Nov 1, 1978

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