Abstract
We examined the relationship between the speech discrimination score and the percentage of correct answers to individual monosyllabic words in 144 ears. The subjects were classified into three groups by the speech discrimination score. The percentage of correct answers in each group were plotted as a function of that in the subject population overall, and these graphs were compared with one another. The Decrease in the percentage of correct answers were not observed equally for all the words, but for particular words for which the percentage of correct answers was low in the subject population overall. There are monosyllabic words for which the percentage of correct answers was high in the low speech discrimination score group. On the other hand, there were also monosyllabic words for which the percentage of correct answers was low in the high speech discrimination score group. The results of this study suggest that the relationship between the speech discrimination score and the percentage of correct answers should be taken into account while undertaking auditory training.
