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Abstract
In ‘hearing aid consultation’, recommendations for an aid are made without observing the patient's aided performance. This practice is undesirable since aided auditory discrimination ability is different to predict on the basis of unaided scores. On the other hand, maintenance in the clinic of a representative stock of hearing aids is costly and time- consuming. As a possible alternative, the intelligibility of ‘hearing-aid-processed’ PB lists (recorded through a hearing aid) was compared with aided discrimination under clinical conditions. Fifteen subjects with sensorineural loss were used. No differences resulted between the two test conditions, indicating that hearing-aid-processed stimuli can give useful information about aided discrimination ability