Hearing Loss
Studies in the Area of Hearing Loss Reported from East Tennessee State University
Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 14th, 2011
2011 NOV 14 -- According to the authors of recent research from Johnson City, Tennessee, "Since the 1940s, measures of pure-tone sensitivity and speech recognition in quiet have been vital components of the audiologic evaluation. Although early investigators urged that speech recognition in noise also should be a component of the audiologic evaluation, only recently has this suggestion started to become a reality."
"This report focuses on the Words-in-Noise (WIN) Test, which evaluates word recognition in multitalker babble at seven signal-to-noise ratios and uses the 50% correct point (in dB SNR) calculated with the Spearman-Karber equation as the primary...
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