Deck 6: Speech Audiometry

Question 1

Word recognition is more accurate with a fifty-word list than with a twenty-five-word list.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

State two different patient response modes in word recognition testing.

Answer 2

Verbal repeating words)and non-verbal pointing)

Question 3

What is a spondee word?

Answer 3

A spondee is a two-syllable word produced with equal stress on both words.

Question 4

Name different types of stimuli used in speech audiometry.

Question 5

The count-the-dots audiogram provides a handy way to estimate a patient's:

A)Bone conduction hearing thresholds
B)Speech reception threshold
C)Speech awareness threshold
D)Articulation index Short Answer

Question 6

Two response modes used in measuring SRT in young children are _______________ and _______________.

Question 7

What is difference between the SDT and the SRT and how are they related?

Question 8

In word recognition testing,the phrase "Say the word …" is known as a _________________ phrase.

Question 9

The maximum score in word recognition performance is always at a comfortable listening level.

Question 10

In the clinic,word recognition is never tested in background noise.

Question 11

The SRT is described in _______________,whereas word recognition scores are described in ___________________.

Question 12

What is the relation between the SRT and the PTA?

Question 13

List three disadvantages to relying on the MLV approach for measurement of word
recognition.

Question 14

What is the purpose of the VU meter on an audiometer?

Question 15

What is the difference between speech discrimination and word recognition?

Question 16

What is meant by the term "rollover"?