Development and validation of the AzBio sentence lists.

Spahr AJ, Dorman MF, Litvak LM, Van Wie S, Gifford RH, Loizou PC, Loiselle LM, Oakes T, Cook S. Development and validation of the AzBio sentence lists. Ear and hearing. 33(33). 112-7. PMID: 21829134 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC3971099 NIHMSID: NIHMS558130.

Abstract

The goal of this study was to create and validate a new set of sentence lists that could be used to evaluate the speech perception abilities of hearing-impaired listeners and cochlear implant (CI) users. Our intention was to generate a large number of sentence lists with an equivalent level of difficulty for the evaluation of performance over time and across conditions.