The Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) results in a number of hearing-related problems to the patients. The principal complaint of these patients is their inability to understand speech especially in the presence of background noise or reverberant situations. The modern hearing aids have been equipped with a number of new features to overcome this handicap of patients but still the patient satisfaction rate is not very high. An understanding of the components of SNHL is essential to better analyse this symptom.
These components of SNHL include (but are not limited to) the following: Decreased audibility : Patients with severe or profound hearing loss may not hear any speech sound without being shouted to from a closed range. This occurs as essential parts of some phenomes are not audible to the patients e.g. in order to recognise a vowel the patient needs to be able to listen to its…
