TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the relationship between speech recognition and a spectral– temporal test with a mixed group of hearing aid and cochlear implant users
AU - Aronoff, Justin M.
AU - Duitsman, Leah
AU - Matusik, Deanna K.
AU - Hussain, Senad
AU - Lippmann, Elise
N1 - Support for this research was provided by the American Hearing Research Foundation Bernard & Lottie Drazin Memorial Grant (Lippmann). The authors would like to thank the participants for their time and effort. The authors would also like to thank Kathleen Burke, Gabrielle Cager, Olivia DeWald, Laurel Duncan, Sarah Dyke, Jessica Glennon, Abigail Harkey, Clementina Canessa Mazzoni, Lauren Miller, Brook Pieczara, Melanie Samuels, Nichole Suss, and Madeleine Thomas for their help with data collection.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Purpose: Audiology clinics have a need for a nonlinguistic test for assessing speech scores for patients using hearing aids or cochlear implants. One such test, the Spectral-Temporally Modulated Ripple Test Lite for computeRless Measurement (SLRM), has been developed for use in clinics, but it, as well as the related Spectral-Temporally Modulated Ripple Test, has primarily been assessed with cochlear implant users. The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship between SLRM and the Arizona Biomedical Institute Sentence Test (AzBio) for a mixed group of hearing aid and cochlear implant users. Method: Adult hearing aid users and cochlear implant users were tested with SLRM, AzBio in quiet, and AzBio in multitalker babble with a +8 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Results: SLRM scores correlated with both AzBio recognition scores in quiet and in noise. Conclusions: The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between SLRM and AzBio scores when testing a mixed group of cochlear implant and hearing aid users. This suggests that SLRM may be a useful nonlinguistic test for use with individuals with a variety of hearing devices.
AB - Purpose: Audiology clinics have a need for a nonlinguistic test for assessing speech scores for patients using hearing aids or cochlear implants. One such test, the Spectral-Temporally Modulated Ripple Test Lite for computeRless Measurement (SLRM), has been developed for use in clinics, but it, as well as the related Spectral-Temporally Modulated Ripple Test, has primarily been assessed with cochlear implant users. The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship between SLRM and the Arizona Biomedical Institute Sentence Test (AzBio) for a mixed group of hearing aid and cochlear implant users. Method: Adult hearing aid users and cochlear implant users were tested with SLRM, AzBio in quiet, and AzBio in multitalker babble with a +8 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Results: SLRM scores correlated with both AzBio recognition scores in quiet and in noise. Conclusions: The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between SLRM and AzBio scores when testing a mixed group of cochlear implant and hearing aid users. This suggests that SLRM may be a useful nonlinguistic test for use with individuals with a variety of hearing devices.
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U2 - 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00352
DO - 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00352
M3 - Article
C2 - 33719538
AN - SCOPUS:85103228576
SN - 1092-4388
VL - 64
SP - 1073
EP - 1080
JO - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
JF - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
IS - 3
ER -