Making the Case for Testing Soft Speech and Speech in Noise
Everyone with hearing loss complains about the ability to hear and understand in the presence of competing noise. Unfortunately, audiologists do not test in noise often, and pediatric audiologists test even less often. Why doesn’t speech in noise get tested? Audiologists do the work we do to help people and we really do…
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Testing speech perception at a soft level
I have been feeling for awhile that I am not hearing well. I went for an evaluation and, I was right. Speech perception testing confirmed what I suspected. While I did fine at normal conversation, my speech perception for soft speech was poor at 56%. Hmmm. I tried new hearing aids and when I got…
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