Using Test Results to Plan Management
Is the child hearing normal conversation? If a child has good speech perception at normal conversational levels (45-50 dBHL) than we expect the child will hear well when 3-6 feet from the person who is speaking and when it is quiet. If she cannot hear well when close to the talker she will have…
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Please Let’s Test Speech Perception
Please lets test speech perception. I am hearing from so many speech-language pathologists, listening and spoken language specialists, teachers of the deaf and parents that their audiologists are not doing speech perception testing. WHY? What is the reason we use technology? The one and only reason is to improve understanding of speech. Technology makes sound…
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