Year: 1993 Vol. 59 Ed. 3 - (6º)
Artigos Originais
Pages: 186 to 188
Synthetic sentence identification test (SSI) with competitive message utilization, in hearing aid evaluation.
Author(s): Maria Helena Untura Caetano*
Keywords: speech audiometry, SSI test, hearing aid, hearing loss
Abstract:
40 hearing-impaired individuals were evaluated in order to verify the Synthetic sentences with message competition importance in the hearing aid subjective evaluation.
The results obtained indicated significant differences between the auditive performance in satisfied and dissatisfied groups. In conclusion, our data showed that the use of Synthetic sentences with message competition consists on efficient test evaluation to select the best hearing aid.
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