Comparison of Sentence Identification and Conventional Speech Discrimination Scores

Abstract

Performance scores for PB word lists and for synthetic sentences were compared on sixty hearing-impaired patients. Scores on the two types of test materials showed a direct relation to audiometric contour. Patients with relatively flat losses performed similarly with words and with sentences. As the slope of the audiometric pattern increased, however, the discrepancy between the scores for words and sentences also increased. Results were consistent with previous findings on the frequency regions important for understanding the two types of test material.