Speech Perception in Ménière Disease

Abstract

Introduction Ménière disease (MD) affects the inner ear, comprising the cochlea and semicircular canals. Symptoms include severe incapacitating vertigo, nausea, vomit, aural fullness, and sensorineural hearing loss – in which speech discrimination and intelligibility are impaired and can be quantified with speech audiometry.

Keywords

• meniere's disease
• tinnitus
• vertigo
• hearing
• speech discrimination tests