PIPB Function – Procedure and Application: Patient’s speech recognition performance depends on the intensity of the test materials it is called PIPB ( Performance Intensity Phonetically Balanced) Function Test when phonemically balanced PB words are used....
What is Clinical Masking In Hearing Tests?: Clinical masking allows accurate assessment for each ear separately by withdrawing or preventing the non-test ear or (NTE) from participating in hearing while testing the other ear (test ear/ TE). Clinical masking must be...
What is Hearing Loss and its type?: Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. Hearing Loss A person who is not able to hear...
Different Types of Stimuli used in Speech Audiometry: Speech Audiometry is a auditory assessment using different types of speech stimuli. In Speech Audiometry for measuring threshold two different types of tests speech detection threshold (SDT) and speech recognition...
Concept of Phonetically and Phonemically Balanced: Phonetically and Phonemically balanced words are use in specific lists, which are used in measuring the speech detection thresholds and speech reception threshold. Phonetically and Phonemically balanced words both are...
Response Format for Speech Audiometry: An open-set format means the patient must respond without any prior knowledge of what the possible alternatives might be, whereas a closed-set format means the patient is provided with a choice of several possible response...
