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Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired (3):
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Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired
National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Hearing, Australia The HEARing CRC, Australia. Teresa.Ching@nal.gov.au
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There were 12 boys and 15 girls. The average hearing loss in the better ear was 104 dBHL, range from 83-117 dBHL, SD = 8.33. The mean age of enrollment was 2 years and 10 months. The majority gradually developed listening skills and speaking ability. There was no relationship between age of enrollme...
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PMID: 20462092
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Ear and Hearing (31)1 2010
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)3 2010
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Factors contributing to parents' decision when they choose between cochlear implantation (CI) and traditional hearing aids for their child were examined. The subjects were children with severe/profound hearing loss, born 1999-2001, registered in the universal neonatal hearing screening program in th...
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PMID: 21138046
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)3 2010
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Findings of a study that investigated parents' expectations and experiences of their children's outcomes with cochlear implants are presented. A survey completed by 247 parents whose children had received implants in eastern Australia compared parents' reports of their preimplant expectations with t...
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PMID: 21138045
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)2 2010
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The researchers explored the effectiveness of Visual Phonics as a reading instructional tool when used in conjunction with a modified version of the Fountas and Pinnell Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum (Fountas & Pinnell, 2002) with a preschool student who was deaf. The study participant was a 4-year...
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PMID: 20925283
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)1 2010
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Vocabulary is essential for communicating, reading, thinking, and learning. In comparison to typical hearing peers, students who are deaf or hard of hearing demonstrate vocabulary knowledge that is quantitatively reduced. The authors review and summarize research studies published in peer-reviewed j...
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PMID: 20503907
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)1 2010
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The position of deaf people in the Swedish labor market is described and analyzed. A population of 2,144 people born from 1941 to 1980 who attended special education programs for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total Swedish population born during the same perio...
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PMID: 20503908
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)1 2010
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The authors describe and compare how physical education classes and healthy lifestyle concepts are taught in selected Czech and U.S. schools for the deaf. Professionals who participated in the study included principals and teachers employed by 4 schools for the deaf. Data from schools were collected...
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PMID: 20503909
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Bone-anchored hearing aid usage rates and satisfaction levels were high amongst patients in Glasgow. Glasgow Benefit Inventory indices were comparable to published findings from other centres. Despite this, bone-anchored hearing aid funding is still not universally available within the National Heal...
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PMID: 19454136
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BACKGROUND: The consequences of hearing loss acquired in adulthood include reduced occupational, personal and social capabilities. OBJECTIVE: This article discusses the psychosocial impact of hearing impairment and the role of the general practitioner in addressing these issues. DISCUSSION: There is...
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PMID: 19893780
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Over the last years, indications for cochlear implants (CIs) have changed dramatically. The benefits depend on the preconditions of the individual patient as well as on the subsequent (re)habilitation. Therefore, many variables influencing the hearing and speech perception of a CI user must be kept...
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PMID: 19517080
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The technique of cochlear implantation was the first method which allowed replacement of a sense organ by a (partially) implantable electronic prosthesis. By this method the cells of the spiral ganglion of the cochlea are directly stimulated by the electrodes introduced into the cochlea, bypassing t...
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PMID: 19590841
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The outcome and success of rehabilitation of patients with cochlear implants (CIs) is determined to a large extent by the preoperative diagnostics and individual fitting of the speech processor and is assessed by the auditory performance of the CI recipient. Due to the wide spectrum of auditory abil...
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PMID: 19517079
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The radiologic evaluation of the temporal bone in cochlear implant candidates can detect malformations of the inner ear in up to 20% of cases. The aim of our study was to analyze and classify malformations of the inner ear in patients with cochlear implants carried out from 2001 to 2009. Malformatio...
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PMID: 19452138
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After cochlear implantation, individuals with sufficient residual hearing in the lower frequency region are able to successfully combine acoustic and electrical stimulation patterns to improve speech perception, especially in noise, and to improve music appraisal as well. These improvements occur th...
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PMID: 19455288
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The present study investigated a bandwidth extension method to enhance telephone speech understanding for cochlear implant (CI) users. The acoustic information above telephone speech transmission range (i.e., 3400 Hz) was estimated based on trained models describing the relation between narrow-band...
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PMID: 19206836
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Auditory inefficiency creates a serious social problem due to the ever increasing number of people with this pathology. The use of hearing aids constitutes the basis of rehabilitative measures for these patients. The authors present results of the analysis of hearing aid efficacy among adult subject...
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PMID: 19365359
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of altering the fundamental frequency (F0) on perception of prosody and speaker gender in both normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Tests with natural speech and defined modifications of the F0 were performed, and the res...
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PMID: 19173112
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)1 2009
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Mounting evidence points to joint attention as a mediating variable in children's adaptive behavior development. Joint attention in interactions between hearing mothers and congenitally deaf (n = 27) and hearing (n = 29) children, ages 18-36 months, was examined. All deaf children had severe to prof...
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PMID: 19569301
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)1 2009
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The study compared psychosocial risk behaviors of adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing with those of their hearing peers in a residential treatment facility. Statistically significant differences emerged between groups. The adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing demonstrated clinically...
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PMID: 19569302
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)1 2009
Learning with a missing sense: what can we learn from the interaction of a deaf child with a turtle?
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This case study reports on the progress of Navon, a 13-year-old boy with prelingual deafness, over a 3-month period following exposure to Logo, a computer programming language that visualizes specific programming commands by means of a virtual drawing tool called the Turtle. Despite an almost comple...
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PMID: 19569306
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)1 2009
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A historical study is conducted into the founding of three boarding schools for Deaf children in The Netherlands, in 1790, 1840, and 1888. The article focuses on how three different religious views inspired divergent perspectives on citizenship and the role of the state, the church, and charity in h...
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PMID: 19569303
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)2 2009
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American Annals of the Deaf (154)1 2009
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An orientation to autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), also known as autism, is provided, and the specific syndrome of autism and deafness is addressed. The two conditions have in common a major problem: communication. Case histories are provided, the development of treatment for autism is discussed,...
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PMID: 19569300
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Trends in Amplification (12)4 2008
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Pitch is important for speech and music perception, and may also play a crucial role in our ability to segregate sounds that arrive from different sources. This article reviews some basic aspects of pitch coding in the normal auditory system and explores the implications for pitch perception in peop...
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PMID: 18974203
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Trends in Amplification (12)4 2008
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A new approach to the separation of speech from speech-in-noise mixtures is the use of time-frequency (T-F) masking. Originated in the field of computational auditory scene analysis, T-F masking performs separation in the time-frequency domain. This article introduces the T-F masking concept and rev...
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PMID: 18974204
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Trends in Amplification (12)4 2008
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The benefit of wearing hearing aids in multitalker, reverberant listening environments was evaluated in a study of speech-on-speech masking with two groups of listeners with hearing loss (younger/older). Listeners selectively attended a known spatial location in two room conditions (low/high reverbe...
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PMID: 19010794
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The contribution of binaural level and timing cues available from each pulse in brief electrical pulse trains was determined in a lateralization task using an observer weighting paradigm. Four bilateral cochlear implant users were tested with randomized interaural time delays (ITDs) or, in a separat...
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PMID: 19206812
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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Trust, ontological security, and social recognition are discussed in relation to self-identity among people with acquired deafblindness. To date the phenomenon has not been elaborated in the context of deafblindness. When a person with deafblindness interacts with the social and material environment...
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PMID: 19012120
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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We found no indication that hearing-impaired subjects overestimated their previous hearing or the hearing of normal-hearing people. Satisfaction was also correlated with the outcome and degree of fulfillment of expectations. It did not correlate with improvement of function. The concept of balance w...
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PMID: 19012122
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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Within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF; WHO), participation in work is acknowledged as one of the major areas in life (D8). Difficulties that make it impossible for the person to optimally partake in work result in participation restriction. An increasing...
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PMID: 19012121
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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This paper summarizes twenty studies, published since 1989, that have measured experimentally the relationship between speech recognition in noise and some aspect of cognition, using statistical techniques such as correlation or factor analysis. The results demonstrate that there is a link, but it i...
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PMID: 19012113
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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We focus on four aspects of the model which have led to the current, updated version: the language generality assumption; the mismatch assumption; chronological age; and the episodic buffer function of rapid, automatic multimodal binding of phonology (RAMBPHO). We evaluate the language generality as...
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PMID: 19012117
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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The purpose of the present article is to present an overview of a set of studies conducted in our own laboratory on cognitive and communicative development in children with cochlear implants (CI). The results demonstrate that children with CIs perform at significantly lower levels on the majority of...
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PMID: 19012112
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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This study sought to determine the level of speech intelligibility, narrative abilities, and their interrelationship in 18 Finnish children implanted at the average age of three years, four months. Additionally, background factors associated with speech intelligibility and storytelling ability were...
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PMID: 19012111
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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It is well known that two patients suffering from a sensorineural hearing loss with similar audiograms can benefit significantly differently from amplified hearing even if the same settings of the hearing aids are used. The origin of this problem is complex but one part can be caused by the diagnosi...
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PMID: 19012107
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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The objective of this study was to document the development of speech, language, and reading skills between primary and secondary school ages in children who received cochlear implants during preschool years. Subjects were a sample of 85 North American adolescents recruited from a larger sample of 1...
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PMID: 19012109
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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We examined two sets of aided speech recognition data collected from a Danish population where two cognitive tests, reading span and letter monitoring, had been administered. A reanalysis of all three datasets, including 102 participants, demonstrated the mismatch effect. These findings suggest that...
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PMID: 19012116
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International Journal of Audiology (47 Suppl 2) 2008
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We found that the left superior temporal cortex, including auditory regions, was strongly activated in the brains of deaf compared with hearing participants when processing silently spoken (speechread) word lists. In the second place, we found that within the signed language, cortical activation pat...
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PMID: 19012106
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Because of interactions between the signal processing and acoustic input, cochlear implant (CI) users' melodic pitch perception may be influenced by instrument timbre. In the present study, CI listeners' melodic contour identification was measured for six instruments (organ, glockenspiel, trumpet, c...
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PMID: 19062785
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Self-adjustments of variable hearing aid parameters are essential for trainable hearing aids to provide customized amplification for different listening environments. Prompted by a finding of Dreschler et al. [Ear Hear. 29, 214-227 (2008)], this study investigates the effect of the base line (starti...
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PMID: 19045657
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Hearing Research (242)1-2 2008
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Advances in implant technology and speech processing have provided great benefit to many cochlear implant patients. However, some patients receive little benefit from the latest technology, even after many years' experience with the device. Moreover, even the best cochlear implant performers have gr...
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PMID: 18295992
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This study investigated the change in music perception of adults undergoing cochlear implantation. Nine adults scheduled for a cochlear implant (CI) were assessed on a music test battery both prior to implantation (whilst using hearing aids; HAs), and three months after activation of their CIs. The...
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PMID: 18465410
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All hearing aids and communication devices introduce nonlinear distortion. The perception of distortion by hearing-impaired subjects was studied using artificial controlled distortions of various amounts and types. Subjects were asked to rate the perceived quality of distorted speech and music. Stim...
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PMID: 18465409
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The profession of audiology took root in Brazil nearly a half a century ago and has since blossomed into a flourishing, well-developed field. Currently, audiologists in Brazil work at private institutions, including private medical practices and dedicated speech and hearing clinics. They are also em...
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PMID: 18236235
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Digital feedback suppression (DFS) enables users of hearing instruments (HI) to benefit from amplification levels that normally would provoke whistling or poor sound quality. A standardized test for the measurement of DFS benefit is not available. This paper proposes and evaluates an objective metho...
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PMID: 18236236
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I and phase II clinical trials designed to establish the efficacy of directly training dichotic listening. Dichotic verbal material was presented in the sound field with intensity adjusted separately for each speaker. Output from the right-sided speaker was initially 20-30 db HL lower than for the l...
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PMID: 18236240
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Adaptation to the acoustic world following cochlear implantation does not typically include formal training or extensive audiological rehabilitation. Can cochlear implant (CI) users benefit from formal training, and if so, what type of training is best? This study used a pre-/posttest design to eval...
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PMID: 18247913
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Hearing Research (235)1-2 2008
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Fundamental frequency (F0) processing by cochlear implant (CI) listeners was measured using a psychophysical task and a speech intonation recognition task. Listeners' Weber fractions for modulation frequency discrimination were measured using an adaptive, 3-interval, forced-choice paradigm: stimuli...
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PMID: 18093766
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These results contribute to the evidence that NHS programs lower the ages of diagnosis and amplification and lead to earlier improved hearing. It is argued that early access to hearing should be the desired primary outcome of NHS. The numerous studies demonstrating improved ages of diagnosis resulti...
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PMID: 18196481
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Dysfunctions of the inner ear such as hearing impairment due to noise exposure or presbycusis and vertigo are often caused by loss of hair cells in the sensory epithelium. There is still no specific therapy, just technical aids. Options for protecting and regenerating hair cells are explained here....
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PMID: 18210008
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In the whole group only a slight difference was found between both training modalities concerning their writing abilities. However, children with a history of hearing loss, actual hearing loss or pathologic middle ear findings profited most from the specialized training program compared to the contr...
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PMID: 18235194
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This presentation of the public health impact of hearing impairment highlights the important elements of interaction between the disability and community. OBJECTIVES: Retrospective study to identify the size of the problem of hearing loss, illustrating not only the magnitude but also the serious eff...
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PMID: 18235192
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Trends in Amplification (11)4 2007
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Dual sensory impairment (DSI) refers to the presence of both hearing loss and vision loss. The occurrence of DSI is particularly prevalent among the aging population, with studies showing between 9% and 21% of adults older than 70 years having some degree of DSI. Despite this, there is little direct...
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PMID: 18003868
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Trends in Amplification (11)4 2007
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Our sensory systems are remarkable in several respects. They are extremely sensitive, they each perform more than one function, and they interact in a complementary way, thereby providing a high degree of redundancy that is particularly helpful should one or more sensory systems be impaired. In this...
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PMID: 18003869
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Trends in Amplification (11)4 2007
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The present study investigated the ability of normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant users to recognize vocal emotions. Sentences were produced by 1 male and 1 female talker according to 5 target emotions: angry, anxious, happy, sad, and neutral. Overall amplitude differences between the stim...
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PMID: 18003871
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Trends in Amplification (11)4 2007
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We review the prevalence and causes of dual impairment and its effects on functioning for both individuals affected and their families. We examine psychosocial coping and adaptation to this condition using biopsychosocial-spiritual and ecological models and discuss various strategies for coping and...
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PMID: 18003870
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Trends in Amplification (11)4 2007
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This article focuses on the current state of the science related to audiologic rehabilitation of individuals with dual sensory impairment, with an emphasis on considerations for provision of appropriate hearing assistive technology for this population. A substantial increase in the number of older a...
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PMID: 18080391
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