HEARING TEST IN FREE FIELD

Free Field Word recognition test in the presence of noise in normal hearing adults.

INTRODUCTION In ideal listening situations, subjects with normal hearing can easily understand speech, as can many subjects who have a hearing loss. OBJECTIVE To present the validation of the Word Recognition Test in a Free Field in the Presence of Noise in normal-hearing adults. METHODS Sample consisted of 100 healthy adults over 18 years of age with normal hearing. After pure tone audiome...

P 300 Cognitive potential in free field : test applicability Summary

Hearing Impairment and Hearing Aid Usage in the Elderly of Northern Iran’s Rural Areas: A Field Study

Background: Hearing impairment is the most common otolaryngologic manifestation of aging. Objectives: Few studies have focused on Hearing Loss (HL) in the Iranian “normal” elderly population. This study aimed to evaluate audiological problems in the normal elderly people of the rural areas of Rasht City in the north of Iran. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2...

The Danish hearing in noise test.

OBJECTIVE A Danish version of the hearing in noise test (HINT) has been developed and evaluated in normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners. The speech material originated from Nielsen & Dau (2009) where a sentence-based intelligibility equalization method was presented. DESIGN In the present study, the speech material was evaluated for naturalness and a subset of sentences sel...

Open Access Guide to Audiology and Hearing Aids for Otolaryngologists Clinical Assessment of Hearing: Free Field Voice Testing & Tuning Forks

Because of our ability to diagnose the majority of external and middle ear conditions by otoscopy, the history is often of little additional value in reaching a diagnosis. Thus in a patient with otoscopic evidence of chronic otitis media, the object of taking a history is not to make the diagnosis but to assess the resultant disability and to plan management. Equally, if an audiogram is availab...