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OBJECTIVE-To examine the impact of prescription on predicted speech intelligibility and loudness for children. DESIGN-A between-group comparison of Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) and loudness, based on hearing aids fitted according to... more
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      AudiologySpeech perceptionHearing aidsSpeech Intelligibility
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      Auditory PerceptionResearchHearing aidsDeafness
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      Treatment OutcomeRisk assessmentHearing aidsFollow-up studies
Auditory distance perception plays a major role in spatial awareness, enabling location of objects and avoidance of obstacles in the environment. However, it remains under-researched relative to studies of the directional aspect of sound... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceAuditory PerceptionBlindness
The hypothesis is tested that an open-canal hearing device, with a microphone in the ear canal, can be designed to provide amplification over a wide bandwidth and without acoustic feedback. In the design under consideration, a transducer... more
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      Speech perceptionVibrationHearingTransducers
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      Program EvaluationEarly InterventionData ManagementQuality Control
This study examines the ability and development in the comprehension of abstract words with hearing impaired children. The ability to understand abstract words is quite important for their academic learning and adaptation in their school... more
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      CommunicationSign LanguageSemanticsCognition
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      VibrationHearing aidsSpeech IntelligibilityCochlear Implants
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      Cognitive ScienceAlgorithmsPsychoacousticsSpeech perception
To investigate the effect of low-frequency attenuation of Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids (Bahas) in users with single-sided sensorineural deafness (SSD). The underlying notion is that low-frequency sounds up to approximately 1500 Hz reach the... more
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      OtolaryngologyAudiologyAmplificationSpeech & Hearing Sciences
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      PsychologyEnvironmental soundsHearing aidsHearing Loss and Hearing Aids
A 23-month-old female was referred for hearing aid fitting after failing newborn hearing screening and being diagnosed with significant hearing loss through subsequent diagnostic testing. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) and behavioral... more
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      Treatment OutcomeHearing aidsCase StudyInfant
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      PediatricsCleft PalateDisease susceptibilityDown Syndrome
TACTILE VOCODERS are sensory substitution devices that present sound information to persons with profound hearing loss who benefit little from conventional hearing aids. These devices utilise the 'vocoder' principle developed for speech... more
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      Biomedical EngineeringHearing aidsDeafnessReal Time
This paper evaluated the performance of an envelope enhancement (EE) algorithm subjectively by children with auditory processing disorder (APD), and objectively through computational models. Speech intelligibility data was collected from... more
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      Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Diagnosis/TreatmentEnhancementHuman EnhancementAuditory temporal processing
Purpose: The aims of this study were to determine if a remotely-delivered, internet-based auditory training program improves speech-in-noise understanding and if the number of hours spent engaged in the program influences... more
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      AudiologyDeafness and Hearing LossHearing aidsTelepractice
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceCognitionSpeech perception
Objective: The aim of this study is to quantify changes in quality of life due to the use of BAHA. Patients and method: Twenty-eight patients were included. The instrument used to quantify the change in quality of life was the Glasgow... more
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      Quality of lifeTinnitusHearing aidsCochlear Implants
Objectives/Hypothesis: Systematically review the literature on the clinical outcome of bone conduction devices (BCD) and contralateral routing of sound systems (CROSS) for patients with single-sided deafness (SSD).
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      Quality of lifeHearing aidsClinical SciencesAged
Autism is a pervasive and complex developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, atypical communication and restricted, repetitive and stereotypical patterns of behaviours, activities and interests [1]. Individuals... more
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      AutismHearing aidsHearing LossClinical Sciences
This study aimed to assess the extent and implications of short-term hearing fluctuation in Meniere's disease. Thirty-six subjects diagnosed with Meniere's were recruited to measure their own hearing using in-situ audiometry via a hearing... more
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      AudiologyHearing disordersHearing aidsClinical Sciences
The purpose of this study was to compare vowel productions by deaf cochlear implant (CI) children, hearing-impaired hearing aid (HA) children and normal-hearing (NH) children. 73 children [mean age: 9;14 years (years;months)]... more
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      PhoneticsMedicineChildCochlear Implant
Objective: Two studies explored hearing-aid user and audiologist experiences of hearing-aid use and fitting for music in the UK. Design and sample: One-hundred-seventy-six hearing-aid users (age range: 21–93 years; mean: 60.56 years)... more
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      MusicAudiologyDigital Signal ProcessingListening (Music)
A novel algorithm for frequency lowering in music was developed and experimentally tested in hearing-impaired listeners. Harmonic frequency lowering (HFL) combines frequency transposition and frequency compression to preserve the harmonic... more
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      Computer ScienceAlgorithmsAcousticsMusic
Background: Sound therapy coupled with appropriate counseling has gained widespread acceptance in the audiological management of tinnitus. For many years, ear level sound generators (SGs) have been used to provide masking relief and to... more
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      MusicQuality of lifeTreatment OutcomeTinnitus
The round window placement of a floating mass transducer (FMT) is a new approach for coupling an implantable hearing system to the cochlea. We evaluated the vibration transfer to the cochlear fluids of an FMT placed at the round window... more
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      VibrationHearingTransducersHearing aids
Very few assessment measures exist for evaluating progress in young deaf children with hearing aids and cochlear implants. To introduce and describe an early assessment package that covers auditory perception, communication/language... more
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      CommunicationAuditory PerceptionSpeech perceptionSpeech Communication
Background: Tinnitus can have a devastating impact on the quality of life of the sufferer. Although the mechanisms underpinning tinnitus remain uncertain, hearing loss is often associated with its onset, and hearing aids are among the... more
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      TinnitusHearing aidsClinical SciencesQuestionnaires
Lunner T, Hellgren J, Arlinger S, Elberling C. Non-linear signal processing in digital hearing aids. Scand Audiol 1998;27 Suppl 49: 40-49. Three different non-linear digital signal processing algorithms were developed: LinEar, DynEar and... more
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      AlgorithmsSignal ProcessingSpeech perceptionDigital Signal Processing
To review the outcomes of the fully implantable middle ear devices Carina and Esteem regarding the treatment of hearing loss. PubMed, Embase, Scielo, and Cochrane Library databases were searched. Abstracts of 77 citations were screened,... more
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      Quality of lifeAdolescentMultidisciplinaryHearing aids
Objective: The fact that vibration of the skull causes a hearing sensation has been known since the 19th century. This mode of hearing was termed hearing by bone conduction. Although there has been more than a century of research on... more
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      ZoologyInformation TechnologyCerebrospinal FluidHearing aids
Historically, the primary concern for hearing aid design and fitting is optimization for speech inputs. However, increasingly other types of inputs are being investigated and this is certainly the case for music. Whether the hearing aid... more
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      MusicAuditory PerceptionHearing aidsAuditory Threshold
In this clinical study, 110 patients seen at three different clinical facilities were fit binaurally with linear, in-the-canal (ITC) hearing aids. All patients were new hearing aid users. Each of the hearing aids was equipped with an... more
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      Cognitive ScienceSpeech perceptionLinguisticsSpeech
Background-Few quality of life (QOL) assessment tools are available for children with specific chronic conditions, and none have been designed specifically for children with hearing loss (HL). A validated hearing-related QOL questionnaire... more
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      Quality of lifeHearingChildHearing aids
Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1/6 of the total population in the UK, this figure is rising due to ageing of the population from the baby-boom era (Matthews, 2014). It has been noted that HI can have a substantial impact on one’s life,... more
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      Artificial IntelligenceCommunicationTechnologyDesign
Objectives: Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) remains one of the most common childhood chronic infectious diseases worldwide. Although microbial, immunological, and genetically determined factors, as well as Eustachian tube... more
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      Hearing aidsChronic DiseaseRisk factorsRecurrence
Investigations have shown that patient attitudes toward hearing loss and hearing aids impact self-reported handicap and disability, hearing aid benefit, and hearing aid use. The Attitudes towards Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ) was... more
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      Linear modelsHearing aidsTheClinical Sciences
Unter den sensorineuralen Schwerhörigkeiten ist die in ihrer Häufigkeit unterschätzte und in ihrer phänotypischen Ausprägung sehr variable auditorische Synaptopathie/Neuropathie (AS/AN) stärker in unser Blickfeld gerückt. Dabei liegt eine... more
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      Hearing aidsHNOAudiometry
An acoustic anechoic chamber is a shielded room designed for performing sound measurements under conditions close to free space. This short paper summarises the design and construction of a low cost anechoic chamber, with a focus on... more
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      Hearing aidsSound absorptionSound Absorbtion MeasurementSound insulation
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      Social ChangeHealth PromotionEpidemiologySocial epidemiology
Artikulacija gluve dece Uvod - Pravilna artikulacija pretpostavlja auditivnu diferencijaciju glasova. Stanje artikulacije je u zavisnoj korelaciji od govora i od stepena oštećenja sluha. Auditivna diskriminacija je tesno povezana sa... more
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      PhonologyPhoneticsLanguage DevelopmentLinguistic Theory
The mechanical point impedance of the human skull is an important patient property to consider in the design of both transducers for bone-anchored hearing aids (baha) and artificial test devices for the baha. This property has also a... more
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      AudiologyAudiologiaHearing aidsMechanical Properties of Materials
A subjective listening test was conducted to determine how objectionable various amounts of latency are for performers in live monitoring scenarios. Several popular instruments were used and the results of tests with wedge monitors are... more
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      Audio EngineeringAudio Signal ProcessingPsychoacousticsDigital Signal Processing
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      AcousticsMusicMusic PsychologyPsychoacoustics
Objectives After completing this article, readers should be able to:
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      PediatricsChildHearing disordersHearing aids
To examine the impact of prescription on predicted speech intelligibility and loudness for children. A between-group comparison of speech intelligibility index (SII) and loudness, based on hearing aids fitted according to NAL-NL1, DSL... more
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      AudiologySpeech perceptionHearing aidsSpeech Intelligibility
To compare verbal short-term memory and visual working memory abilities of six children with congenital hearing-impairment identified as having significant language learning difficulties with normative data from typically hearing children... more
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      Visual perceptionAdolescentSpeechChild
Hearing aid amplification can be used as a model for studying the effects of auditory stimulation on the central auditory system (CAS). We examined the effects of stimulus presentation level on the physiological detection of sound in... more
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      Signal ProcessingAudiologyHearingHearing aids
O t o l a r y n g o l o g i a P o l s k a t o m 6 5 , n r 3 , m a j -c z e r w i e c 2 0 11 KAZUISTYKA / CASE REPORTS 236 Kazimierz Niemczyk, Krzysztof Morawski, Magdalena Lachowska, SUMMARY The aim of this study is to present... more
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      Speech perceptionTreatment OutcomeElectrocardiologySensorineural Hearing Loss
Tinnitus (the phantom perception of sound) often accompanies hearing loss. Two common methods for managing tinnitus are masking (Vernon and Meikle, 2000) and auditory habituation therapy (Jastreboff, 2000). Hearing aids are often used to... more
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      TinnitusHearing aids








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