Now here's a quiz for you.

You'll need pen and paper. Listen to the following list of words and write down as quickly as possible any that you can understand. They have been filtered to simulate how someone with a severe perceptive deafness listening in a low background of noise might hear speech.

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*muffled noises- within this muffled noise twenty different words are said.*

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Now listen again, but this time we'll give you a clue. There all words to with things around the house.

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*muffled noises- within this muffled noise twenty different words are said. It is easier to work out what the words are as context has been given.*

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Now check your lists again. The words were.

*loud background noise starts again, however the muffled noise has gone*

• Kitchen

• Door

• Floor

• Fork

• Dishwasher

• Knife

• Backdoor

• Saucer

• Oven

• Window

• Hob

• Hall

• Frontdoor

• Jug

• Fridge

• Stairs

• Microwave

• Chairs

• Bedroom

• Plate

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Hearing aid users who experience a severe perceptive loss have to rely on a range of clues to help them make sense of what is being said. Usually these are contextual clues. It's simple, if you know what a person is talking about it's far more likely that you will understand what they are saying.

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