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Development of Telscreen: a telephone-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test with a novel masking noise and scoring procedure
(International Journal of Audiology, 2016)
Objective: In 2006 the National Acoustic Laboratories was commissioned to create a telephone-based hearing screening test. Design: NAL
developed ‘Telscreen’, a speech-in-noise test modelled on the Dutch and UK telephone ...
Bringing HEARsmart™ to music venues in Victoria
(2016)
Previous research suggests that patrons of nightclubs and live
music venues experience tinnitus and other symptoms more than
non-patrons, and that regular patrons would prefer noise levels
to be lower than the levels ...
Delving into ‘hidden hearing loss’: Results from a large-scale behavioural investigation
(2016)
Some adults report problems understanding speech in background noise yet their audiograms are clinically normal. Animal studies suggest this may result from noise-induced damage to synaptic connections between auditory ...
Does musical training protect noise-exposed musicians from the consequences of ‘hidden hearing loss’?
(2016)
"Hidden hearing loss": noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy involving the selective loss of high-threshold auditory nerve fibres without affecting auditory thresholds, but resulting in perceptual deficits such as difficulty ...