[The speech audiometry test with the verbal tasks and motor responses].

The objective of the present study was to estimate the possibility of using the Russian version of the speech audiometry test with the verbal tasks and motor responses (VTMR test) for the examination of the patients of the advanced and senile age suffering from hearing impairment and cognitive disorders. A total of 20 subjects at the age between 60 and 83 years were enrolled in the study. All of them presented with grade II-III bilateral symmetric chronic sensorineural hearing loss associated with mild cognitive disorders.