Paired comparison judgments for hearing aid selection in children.

摘要: Three experiments were conducted to investigate the feasibility of using a paired comparison technique select hearing aids for children. The first two determined age at which normal-hearing children and hearing-impaired with mild moderately severe sensorineural loss could be expected meet criteria on task involving judgments auditory clarity. Of 25 between ages 4.0 6.4 yr, five out 6.0 yr passed task. 10 5.5 7.4 6.5 In Experiment 3, eight 5.7 7.8 judged clarity seven in comparison, round robin tournaments. results showed that correlations tournaments moderate strong six weak stronger tournaments, phoneme identification scores four When compared aid approximated standard prescription, selected by neither degraded nor enhanced speech intelligibility. Results from this study indicate is feasible use age, occasionally younger, who exhibit are capable performing reliably.