Au cours du Congrès des Audioprothésistes qui s’est déroulé en avril 2015, j’ai eu l’occasion de rencontrer un confrère intéressé par les listes du test phonétique en langue espagnole car lui-même parle l’espagnol et certains de ses patients le parle en tant que langue maternelle.
Pour les possesseurs d’Affinity (avec l’option REM) en version 1.x ou 2.0x, il est possible d’importer un test déjà prédéfini sous la forme d’un fichier .iax .
Ce signal sous copyright de l’EHIMA (European Hearing Instrument Manufacturing Association) a été élaboré en collaboration avec l’ISMADHA en 2007 dans le but de tester les aides auditives les plus récentes.
Deafs persons, with add-on integrative disorder or not, are, by definition, suffering from deafness which can be highlighted and assessed by pure tone audiometry. They can all benefit from performing speech audiometry. As we’ve already told it, it’s the only means of testing hearing in its entirety.
Why then, for this patient, is this prognosis wrong in terms of speech understanding in quiet and noisy situations ? Professor J.C. LAFON answers that question in his explanation of how the auditory integration list was developed: « … having young children among my patients, I encountered severe cases of spatial distortions that could only originate […]
Now, let’s move on to the well known hearing function, that we practice every day in our life and our job : SECONDARY hearing, i.e. communication hearing. Having a hearing test is not only doing one’s best with the only pure tone audiometry. The pure tone audiometry use pure sounds, and the ear is not […]
