[Experience with Jakobi's logatom test. Recommendations for international speech audiometry].

Since 1959 in the Univ. ENT-clinic of Halle/S. a so called Logatomtest from Jakobi with senseless syllables is in use for paedoaudiology. It was proved in cases of adults with hearing losses as well as in normal patients too. The results were nearly the same as with the test of Hahlbrock in german language. For international use we checked the distribution of consonants and vowels in 10 european languages. We often need speech audiograms for patients from foreign countries, who are not familiar enough with the german language. So it seems to us, that a senseless test is more reliable. In the 10 languages the distribution of the consonants was very similar but not of the vowels. Because the discrimination in speech is based on the consonants, we think out test can be recommended for international use.