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Is the future of hearing aids in a flatpack? Issues of clinical support for self-fitting hearing aids
(2016)
Self-fitting hearing aids (SFHAs) are gaining ground in the online marketplace, where they are often marketed as a low-cost alternative to traditional hearing health care (HHC). A recent evaluation of a commercially available ...
Development and evaluation of a test for the assessment of syllabic parsing ability in children
(2016)
The Parsing Syllable Envelopes test (ParSE) was developed to
investigate whether some children have a deficit in their ability to
detect syllable boundaries.
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 ...
Two case studies using the Dichotic Digits difference Test (DDdT) to disentangle true dichotic deficits from cognitive disorders
(2016)
•Dichotic tests are the most commonly used test in CAPD
batteries.
•Fails on dichotic tests are correlated with real-life listening
difficulties (Tomlin et al., 2015).
BUT…
•Dichotic test results are also correlated ...
Self-fitting hearing aids: issues of candidacy and support.
(2016)
Overarching goal: To map out a service delivery model that will support self-fitting hearing aid users
Candidacy: What factor(s) predict success with setting up a self-fitting hearing aid?
Support: To what extent do ...
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 ...