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Spoken language and everyday functioning in 5-year-old children using hearing aids or cochlear implants
(2017)
This study investigated the factors influencing 5-year language, speech, and everyday functioning of children with congenital hearing loss.
Design: Standardised tests including PLS-4, PPVT-4 and DEAP were directly ...
Chapter 32. Managing infants and children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD)
(Thieme Publishers, 2017)
Key Points
1. ANSD is a heterogeneous disorder and has a number of potential sites-of-lesion depending on the underlying cause. Hence, the hearing configuration, speech perception, and functional and speech language ...
The effect of hearing loss on source-distance dependent speech intelligibility in rooms
(JASA Express Letters, 2017)
Westermann and Buchholz [(2015). J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
137(2), 757–767] found substantial improvements in speech reception
thresholds (SRTs) for normal hearing listeners in a reverberant auditorium
when the target talker ...
The effects of noise exposure and musical training on suprathreshold auditory processing
(Hearing Research, 2017-08)
Recent animal research has shown that exposure to single episodes of intense noise causes cochlear synaptopathy without affecting hearing thresholds. It has been suggested that the same may occur in humans. If so, it is ...
Tinnitus and leisure noise
(2017)
Objective: To study the relationship of life-time noise exposure and experience of tinnitus. Design: Audiometric measures included
otoscopy, pure tone air- and bone-conduction hearing threshold levels (HTL) and otoacoustic ...
Chapter 27. The Importance of Early Intervention for Infants and Children with Hearing Loss
(Thieme Publishers, 2017)
Key Points
1. The literature on the effectiveness of intervention for improving outcomes of children with hearing loss at a population level has equivocal findings.
2. The LOCHI study addresses the evidence gap by ...
Advancing tinnitus awareness through animation
(The Hearing Journal, 2017)
Learning from the longitudinal outcomes of children with hearing impairment(LOCHI) study: summary of 5-year findings and implications
(2017)
This article summarises findings of the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study, and discusses implications of the findings for research and clinical practice.
Design: A population-based ...