LING 3P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pure Tone Audiometry, Musical Tone, Audiometer

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Intro sitting in booth, put hand up when hear a sound. Acoustically isolated from rest of building: don"t want external noise to influence test. Door is solid and must close with air-tight seal. Walls covered with soft material to minimize reverberation (echo) 1 or 2-room set up: audiologist may be in same room, or another, separated by glass window. Allows audiologist to discuss potential impact on specific speech sounds. If testing a complex sound, you don"t know which frequency they are responding to: ex. Impact on speech sounds- ex certain frequencies affect sounds differently (ex. May hear vowels okay but have difficulty with /s/ Start with pure tones, and then test complex sounds like speech to cross reference. Clinical/diagnostic: must be andsi standard, pictures- look different depending on company/age of equipment, 2 different channels can test left and right ear or test things together, store what patient says. Machine records when the responded and when they didn"t.

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