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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

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