AUDIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF PROFOUNDLY HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN

Abstract

The design of an audiological assessment protocol for profoundly hearing-impaired children may be divided into three areas. First, accurate estimation of hearing loss includes the behavioral measures of unaided and aided thresholds and the objective measures of electrocochleography and auditory brain stem response. The reliability of these measures for the accurate diagnosis of a profound to total hearing loss is discussed. Second, speech perception includes the measure of perception in the audition alone, vision alone, and audition plus vision conditions. Test material should include speech features, words, and sentences. Factors influencing the choice of material are the developmental age ..