Tests for categorizing the auditory speech discrimination in the severely/profoundly deaf young adult

Abstract

The phonetic constant, word familiarity and grade level comprehension of the 1922 monosyllabic words used in ten free responses and eight rhyme tests were analyzed. Printed versions of the predictable SPIN sentences were given for 35 NTID students to fill the missing last (key) word. Based on analysis of these words three new tests were conceived. (1) A six‐choice vowel initial and final consonant and numerial test was found to categorize 35 NTID students more efficiently than the present spondaic word/CHABA (CID) sentences profiling tests. (2) The SPINIKER test, a competing message test using the concepts (and many sentences) of SPIN to be used for speech (lip) reading and/or auditory discrimination testing. (3) A common‐word more or less unlearnable question or sentence test using multiple choices among interrogatives (where, when,…), verbal auxiliaries (can, will,…), personal pronouns and free responses among verbs or nouns to be used in hearing aid evaluations. Typical sentences are “What could she drink?” or “Where is my bag?”