CX Problems Related to the Use of Speech in Clinical Audiometry

Any useful clinical test of hearing suggests at least one of the following functions: 1) Diagnosis and prognosis connected with ear disease; 2) evaluation of medical or surgical therapy or a hearing aid; 3) estimation of the social adequacy or disability of hearing. Since the earliest days of otology these have been the three major purposes for hearing tests and they have not all been achieved (equally well) by the different tests that have been developed.