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Thanks. This is why anyone who has so much residual hearing and hears at 30db or better with HAs who still scores poorly in speech needs to suspect the problem may be auditory processing disorder, CAPD, bad auditory nerve, etc. A speech score of 30% may be normal for a 100db loss but not normal for an 80db loss! 80db without cochlear dead regions. If with dead regions then yea 30% may be normal. Dead regions are parts of cochlea with no hair cells. A 2000Hz tone could be "heard" as 1000Hz. See my thread on cochlear dead regions.