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Development and preliminary evaluation of a new test of ongoing speech comprehension
(2015)
Objective: The overall goal of this work is to create new speech perception tests that more closely resemble real world communication
and offer an alternative or complement to the commonly used sentence recall test. Design: ...
Consonant Perception by Adults with Bimodal Fitting
(Thieme, 2011)
Many adults who receive a cochlear implant in one ear have usable residual hearing in the opposite ear. The simultaneous use of a cochlear implant (CI) and a hearing aid (HA) in the contralateral ear, or bimodal fitting, ...
Medical practitioners’ attitudes to hearing rehabilitation for older adults
(2011)
Objective: Medical practitioners have the potential to play a significant role in older adults’ help seeking behaviour in relation to hearing rehabilitation. The current study aimed to look at attitudinal factors that ...
Performance of personal active noise reduction devices
(2012)
This paper presents the results of objective tests performed on 13 personal active noise reduction devices (earmuffs, headphones, headsets and insert earphones) divided into four groups based mainly on structure, using an ...
The mechanical properties of earmuffs
(2011)
The physical properties of circum-aural hearing protectors, such as mass, clamping
force and cup volume, have an influence on the attenuation performance of
the device. This paper closely examines the physical and acoustic ...
Changing beliefs about leisure noise: using health promotion models to investigate young people’s engagement with and attitudes toward hearing health.
(2015)
Objective: To investigate factors influencing young people’s motivation to reduce their leisure noise exposure, and protect their hearing health
Design: Questionnaires were conducted online to investigate young people’s ...