AAO-HNSF Certificate Program for Otolaryngology Personnel

Spondee Words • 2 syllable homogenous, equal stress words • 36 words (handout) • Should be familiar to the listener • Can use touch your nose, touch your mouth, etc. • Can use pictures of spondees if listener cannot speak, or if too young to repeat

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SAT • Lowest level a listener is able to detect the presence of speech • Does not need to be understood, just detected • Can use spondees or “bop, bop, bop” • Will be a slightly lower or better level than an SRT

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Monosyllabic Word Recognition • Purpose is to find out how clear sound is once it is made comfortably loud

• Not always an accurate representation of how someone functions in the real world

• Can present words (NU-6 for adults, W-22 for kids) live voice, tape, or CD

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