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Session Overview: "As a clinician we need to ensure that everything that we do in client appointments adds value to the overall understanding of their hearing loss and rehabilitation needs. As a standard we perform Discrimination testing using AB words in Quiet and many at one level only. Clients come to us with COSI goals that are about hearing in more difficult listening environments. Including speech-in-noise testing as part of your assessment and validation provides more face value to the client. Tests such as QuickSIN can add valuable information that can be utilised in device and technology level discussions to optimise the outcomes for clients and set realistic expectations. Using the appropriate speech test for your validation process requires the clinician to look at the suitability of the test for the client’s loss and COSI goals to ensure that it is sensitive enough to show real benefit. This session explores how you can use speech testing to better advantage in your daily clinical practice."

 

Presenter(s): Jan Pollard, Chief Audiologist, Sonic

 

Event: InspirED 2020