Factors Affecting Auditory Training Gains

Precourse to postcourse gains in auditory training for 43 students were correlated to the following variables: (a) English ability at the onset of the course, (b) puretone average, (c) aided hearing discrimination, (d) hearing discrimination under phones, (e) the difference in hearing discrimination under phones and with hearing aids, (f) improvement in English score during the training period, (g) speechreading with sound, (h) speechreading without sound, (i) auditory training pretest score, and (j) high frequency cutoff for the better ear. It was found that the variable most highly correlated with auditory training gains was the English score at the onset of the auditory training period.