Question

All sounds for speech vibrate at different frequencies, which is how you differentiate speech sounds. vowels are relatively low in pitch, while consonants such as l, m, and n are in the middle range of pitches. many speech sounds such as s and f are high in pitch. how would speech understanding be affected by a person with moderate to severe high frequency sensorineural hearing loss?

Answer 1

Speech understanding would have an effect hugely particularly if the hearing loss is merely in one range. This would let the person to not pick up or hear some letters articulated and perhaps not be able to put them together. For instance, l, m, and n are central range pitches and s and f are high range pitches.