Open AccessIdiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Speech Intelligibility Deficits Following Threshold Recovery
Author(s) -
Masahiro Okada,
Aravindakshan Parthasarathy,
D. Bradley Welling,
M. Charles Liberman,
Stéphane F. Maison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000987
Subject(s) - audiology , sensorineural hearing loss , sudden hearing loss , medicine , intelligibility (philosophy) , hearing loss , philosophy , epistemology
This retrospective study tests the hypothesis that patients who have recovered from idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) show deficits in word recognition tasks that cannot be entirely explained by a loss in audibility.