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ELMER OWENS, PHD; DORCAS K. KESSLER, MA; EARL D. SCHUBERT, PHD
San Francisco

Arch Otolaryngol. 1983;109(4):276-277.

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In Reply.—We do not believe—as Berliner and Edgerton seem to believe—that there is one correct way to set the level of the signal during speech reception testing. Our own procedure for obtaining a patient's most comfortable level (MCL) follows the sequence suggested in the Minimal Auditory Capabilities (MAC) manual. The patient sets his hearing-aid volume control for comfortable listening while the tester talks with him in a face-to-face situation from about 1 m away. None of our patients to date has employed the highest hearing-aid volume setting in this situation. At this volume-control position, and with the patient sitting approximately 1 m from a speaker system in a standard test suite, the tester presents live, rote speech consisting of such items as numbers and days of the week, pegging the VU meter as close to 0 as possible while manipulating the intensity dial. The patient is asked not to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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