Accession Number:
AD0757337
Title:
Hearing Loss at 3 Kilohertz and the Chaba 'Proposed Clinical Test of Speech Discrimination in Noise'
Descriptive Note:
Interim rept. no. 8
Corporate Author:
NAVAL SUBMARINE MEDICAL RESEARCH LAB GROTON CT
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Report Date:
1972-07-27
Pagination or Media Count:
12.0
Abstract:
Forty-eight young men, 21 with rather sharp audiometric losses above 2 kiloHertz, were given a standard test of monsyllables in noise. On the average, these 47 men scored 10 fewer words correct per 100 than has been reported for normal controls. Scattergrams of performance vs a variety of pure- tone and speech threshold data, however, showed that no audiometric information could predict performance in noise. It was concluded that the standardized speech-in-noise test itself should be considered as the predictor instead of threshold tests, and that it should be validated against actual job performance.
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Subject Categories:
- Stress Physiology