Functional Hearing Tests that Influence Hearing Aid Feature Selection 

Presenter: Leigh Martin, BSc (Hons) Audiology.
Learning objective:
To understand the role of functional tests of hearing in influencing hearing aid features: threshold equalizing noise (TEN), speech in noise testing, acceptable noise level (ANL).
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:09 Why look beyond audiometry?
4:29 Risks of an audiometry-only assessment
5:57 Moving beyond audiometry
7:17 TEN test
16:06 Implications of TEN test on hearing aid fitting
19:03 Speech in noise (SIN) testing
34:52 Implications of SIN testing on hearing aid fitting
36:30 Acceptable noise level (ANL) test
41:33 Implications of ANL test on hearing aid fitting
42:55 Red flag matrix
45:10 Summary
45:49 Q&A
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