Right now I'm sitting here trying to figure out why this would work. Since
you're having them localize their voice above and below their mouth, and one cue
for vertical localization is spectral cues, I'm guessing that the localization
task in some way acts like a spectral analyzer, which helps you to know about
whether to raise or lower 1k. Why 1k? Just curious.

Julie

--- On Tue, 7/22/08, abevore <abram.vore@...> wrote:

> From: abevore <abram.vore@...>
> Subject: [HOHAudiologists] HA adjustment trick!
> To: HOHAudiologists@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 4:21 PM
> My classmate Sarah Sonnemann emailed this to me and I
> thought everyone
> here would appreciate it as well. If anyone else has
> tricks up their
> sleeves, please share!!!
>
>
> "If someone comes in complaining that their own voice
> is boomy or
> hollow, what would you adjust?? I think instinctively we
> would go to
> the occlusion manager or low frequencies---BUT WAIT!!!
> Before you go
> screwing around with all that, try this trick:
>
> Ask them, If you could catch your voice, where would it be?
> (This may
> take some time for them to comprehend, but I've found
> that they
> eventually get it.)
>
> -If they grab the air anywhere above their mouth (like near
> their
> nose, or forehead, or above), then start lowering the MPO
> at 1k, one
> dB at a time. As you adjust, ask them to show you where
> their voice
> is moving. Keep lowering the MPO there until they say they
> hear their
> voice coming from their mouth.
>
> -If they grab the air anywhere below their mouth, start
> raising the
> MPO at 1k, one dB at a time, until they can catch their
> voice by their
> mouth.
>
> -If they immediately grab the air by their mouth, then
> don't adjust
> the MPO at 1k, try something else (like occlusion manager
> or low
> frequencies, etc.)
>
>
> This is the coolest thing ever! You should TOTALLY try it.
> I've had
> it work everytime---never needed to screw around with the
> low
> frequencies and make major changes."