by Vikash Kumar | Jul 5, 2020
Functional (Non organic) Hearing Loss or Pseudohypacusis: Functional hearing loss involves a psychological or emotional problem, rather than physical damage to the hearing pathway. Individuals with this type of hearing loss do not seem to hear or respond; yet, in...
by Vikash Kumar | Jul 5, 2020
Up-Down and Staircase Procedure of Estimating Minimum Audible Levels: It is more formal threshold determination strategy in which the threshold is approached from below in 5 dB steps. This involves two tactics Whenever the patient does not hear the tone (–), we...
by Vikash Kumar | Jul 4, 2020
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...
by Vikash Kumar | Jul 4, 2020
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...
by Vikash Kumar | Jul 3, 2020
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...
