[Nfb-science] Performing Sensory Assessments

[Mike Freeman]

I know of a blind person who is a speech and hearing specialist. I believe he does assessments and all the other tasks such a specialist performs. His name is Tom Something-or-other; I'll have to go through my email to see if I have his email address. He's a ham operator so you might want to subscribe to the Blind-hams group and inquire there. You could also do a bit of creative Googling and I'd bet you'd find him.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Szostak <szostak.1 at osu.edu>
To: "NFB Science and Engineering Division List" <nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
Date: Saturday, Dec 18, 2010 22:23:16
Subject: [Nfb-science] Performing Sensory Assessments

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>
> Dear Colleagues,
>   I was curious if anyone here, who studies speech or hearing, with  no useable vision has performed any type of auditory examinations (e.g., using an audiometer...). If so, I was wondering whether you found the instruments for  assessment to be blind-friendly. In other words, were you able to use them without sighted assistance and if so, (a) did you have to purchase modified versions and (b) where did you find such modified versions?
> 
>   As  many here know, I study spoken word recognition from a psycholinguistic perspective. I am considering aging influences involved in an aspect of lexical processing for my dissertation and may need to perform audiometric testing to ensure audibility is equivalent or experimentally controlled.
> Many thanks,
> Christine
>  M. Szostak
> Doctoral Candidate
> Language Perception Laboratory
> Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
> The Ohio State University
> Columbus, Ohio
> szostak.1 at osu.edu
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