Otoacoustic emissions, audiometric sensitivity loss, and speech understanding: a case study.
The clinical measurement of otoacoustic emissions can assist in differentiating between peripheral and central explanations for deficits in speech understanding. We present audiometric and distortion-product emission data in a case with sensorineural hearing loss and a deficit in speech understanding. The presence of evoked emissions argues against attributing the speech audiometric loss to cochlear defect.
Jerger
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Department of Otolaryngology & Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Ali
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Fong
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Tseng
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D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications; D017084:Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception