Test Reference for Cochlear Implants - The ... - Advanced Bionics

Sentence in Noise Test (SIN)
(Killion and Villchur, 1993)
Description: The Speech in Noise (SIN) test was developed to help determine
how much a hearing prosthesis benefits an individual’s speech understanding in
background of noise. The test consists of a series of female-talker recordings of
the IEEE sentences as the target speech, and four-talker babble as the noise
source. Five sentences are recorded at each of four signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios:
15 dB, 10 dB, 5 dB and 0 dB S/N, followed by a similar series recorded at a signal
level 30 dB lower than the calibration level. Therefore, there are 20 sentences at
each level for a total of 40 sentences (or 4 IEEE lists), all of which constitutes a
block.
Order from:
Auditec of St. Louis
2515 South Big Bend Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63143
(800)669-9065 or (314)781-8890 (phone)
(314)781-4946 (fax)
http://www.auditec.com
or
Etymotic Research
61 Martin Lane
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
(888)389-6684 (phone)
http://www.etymotic.com
Speech Hearing, Spatial Hearing, and Quality of Hearing
Questionnaire (SSQ)
(Gatehouse and Noble, 2004)
Description: The SSQ is a questionnaire that was developed to measure
influences of cochlear function on auditory disability and handicap. It is
designed to be administered by interview instead of by self-assessment. There
are 80 questions about auditory attention, perceptions of distance and
movement, sound-source segregation, listening effort, prosody and sound
quality
Download from MRC Institute of Hearing Research at:
http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/products/index.php?page=questionnaire_downloads
Test Reference 9 February 2010