Speech Understanding and Aging,
Abstract
A reveiw of aging and speech understanding reveals that the elderly population experience severe deficits under certain conditions. These deficits appear to be large enough to cause economic and social problems for the middle-aged and elderly adult in his everyday life. Furthermore, in some occupations, for example, aircraft pilots, air traffic controllers, and in noisy occupations in heavy industry, there are safety problems with regard to ability to understand speech. Standard tests of physical health should include tests of ability to hear and understand speech as well as the routine pure-tone audiogram. The speech tests should involve realistic conditions of noise and message redundancy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA040391
Entities
People
- Charles Berlin
- Ira Hirsh
- J D Fletcher
- James N. Pickett
- Moe Bergman
Organizations
- National Research Council