A closed-set sentence protocol for assessing speech discrimination in deaf individuals: the speech sound pattern discrimination test.
Forty hearing-impaired young adults were tested with a newly developed instrument designed to assess auditory speech processing skill. Analyses indicated that the resulting test data could be characterized in terms of the Rasch model for person measurement. Evidence of the scale's empirical validity also was obtained. The instrument uses a closed-set sentence discrimination task, and appears to be useful over a fairly wide range of hearing losses.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000379:methods*