Monday, February 23, 2026 3:45pm to 4:45pm
Title: "Beyond the Audiogram: Data-Driven Insights to Precision Audiology"
Speaker: Varsha M. Athreya, Ph.D.
Speech perception in noise (SPIN) varies widely across individuals, even among those with similar pure-tone averages (PTA), highlighting a fundamental limitation of the most used metric in hearing care. While PTA offers a convenient summary of hearing sensitivity, it ignores audiometric configuration and has limited ability to predict real-world communication outcomes, hearing-aid benefit...