Test Reference for Cochlear Implants - The ... - Advanced Bionics
Test Reference for Cochlear Implants - The ... - Advanced Bionics
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Hearing in Noise <strong>Test</strong> (HINT) Pro<br />
Description: <strong>The</strong> HINT® Pro is a complete system <strong>for</strong> evaluating functional<br />
hearing in quiet and in noise. <strong>The</strong> system includes both hardware and software<br />
and requires a PC. It uses the HINT sentence materials that were previously<br />
available on a CD. <strong>The</strong> HINT Pro includes normative data so the patient's HINT<br />
scores can be compared to normal hearing individuals. <strong>The</strong> test can be<br />
administered via headphones using virtual audio sound processing that<br />
simulates the various conditions of noise front, noise right and noise left. It can<br />
also be administered through the sound field and is available in more than 12<br />
languages.<br />
Order from:<br />
Bio-logic Systems Corp.<br />
(800)323-8326 ext 239<br />
sales@bio-logic.com<br />
Iowa Sound Quality <strong>Test</strong><br />
(Tyler, 2003)<br />
Description: <strong>The</strong> Iowa Sound Quality <strong>Test</strong> consists of 6 categories of sounds: adult<br />
voices, children’s voices, everyday sounds, music, and speech in noise. Each<br />
category contains 16 sound samples <strong>for</strong> a total of 96 items. <strong>The</strong> subject listens to<br />
each randomly played sound, presented at 70 dB(C) SPL, emanating from a<br />
loudspeaker placed at 0 degrees azimuth. Using a computer touch screen, the<br />
subject rates the sound’s clarity ranging anywhere from zero (unclear) to 100<br />
(clear) by touching a visual analog scale that represents the perceived clarity of<br />
the sound.<br />
Order from:<br />
Rich Tyler<br />
rich-tyler@uiowa.edu<br />
Ling Six Sound <strong>Test</strong><br />
(Ling and Ling, 1978)<br />
Description: <strong>The</strong> sounds used in this test are the vowels /a/ as in art, /u/ as in who,<br />
and /i/ as in ease, and the consonants /m/ as in me, /S/ as in she and /s/ as in so.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se sounds are used because they include low-, mid-, and high frequency<br />
components of speech and ability to hear all six of these sounds implies ability to<br />
detect all other sounds of speech. <strong>The</strong> ability to detect and discriminate these<br />
phonemes is evaluated in an auditory only, open-set <strong>for</strong>mat.<br />
Download instructions and test cards from:<br />
http://www.advancedbionics.com/For_Professionals/Audiology_Support/Ling_Si<br />
x_Sound_<strong>Test</strong>.cfm?langid=1<br />
<strong>Test</strong> <strong>Reference</strong> 7 February 2010