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Evaluating Audio Visual Speech Perception in Adults and Children

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1.  The addition of _________ to the auditory speech signal can yield substantial improvements in speech understanding.
  1. background noise
  2. visual speech cues
  3. amplification
  4. tactile cues
2.  Which of these factors can influence performance on spoken word recognition test?
  1. Vocabulary level of the stimuli
  2. Talker characteristics
  3. Test presentation modality
  4. Lexical characteristics of the stimuli
  5. All of the above
3.  Psychometric analyses of the MLST-A and MLST-C revealed that the tests have _________.
  1. Good list equivalency
  2. Good test-retest reliability
  3. Good validity
  4. All of the above
4.  Which speech tests can be administered as individual lists, or as test forms (in which 2 lists have been combined to further enhance list equivalency)?
  1. MLST-A
  2. MLST-C
  3. All of the above
  4. None of the above
5.  How many lists are available on the Multimodal Sentence Test for Adults (MLST-A)?
  1. 10
  2. 20
  3. 30
  4. 40
6.  How many sentence lists are available for the Multimodal Sentence Test for Children (MLST-C)?
  1. 12
  2. 24
  3. 36
  4. 48
7.  Sentence lists on the MLST-A and MLST-C are equivalent which presentation modality?
  1. Auditory only
  2. Visual only
  3. Auditory and Visual
  4. All of the above
8.  Developmental effects on auditory and audiovisual speech recognition were evident when the MLST-C was administered to children with ___________.
  1. hearing aids
  2. normal hearing
  3. cochlear implants
  4. none of the above
9.  The MLT-C reveals ______________
  1. developmental effects on A and AV speech perception in noise
  2. differences among age groups greater in AV than A only
  3. younger children are more adversely affected by noise and show less benefit from addition of visual cues
  4. all of the above
10.  The MLT-C when used with children who use hearing aids or cochlear implants ____________
  1. incorporates “real-world” stimulus variability
  2. is based on strong psychometric principles with list equivalency, reliability, and validity
  3. appears to be more sensitive than current pediatric sentence tests
  4. all of the above

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