A review of common dermatologic disorders of the external ear.

abstract：:The efficacy of a digital hearing aid with a directional microphone was examined in a school-aged population. Twenty children (9 with a mild-to-moderately-severe hearing loss and 11 with a moderate-to-severe hearing loss) between 7 1/2 and 13 2/3 years of age wore the study hearing aids binaurally for 30 days prior to...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kuk FK,Kollofski C,Brown S,Melum A,Rosenthal A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acoustic stapedial reflex (ASR) test provides useful information about the function of the auditory system. While it is frequently used with adults and children in a clinical setting, its use with young infants is limited. Presently, there are few data for neonates and inadequate research into the test-r...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kei J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the second in a series of two papers on masking. The objective of these papers is to develop a masking protocol that provides valid measures of threshold and is, in general, faster than the plateau method. In the first paper, a masking method was presented that can replace the traditional plateau method in mos...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Turner RG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Sweden, there is a lack of evidence-based rehabilitation programs for hearing loss. The Active Communication Education program (ACE) has successfully been used in Australia and was translated and evaluated in a Swedish pilot study. The pilot study included 23 participants (age 87 yr). No statistically sig...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Oberg M,Bohn T,Larsson U

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Vestibular rehabilitation exercises have been proven to reduce symptoms and diminish the risk of falls in those with dizziness and balance impairments. The first purpose of this study is to investigate a new method of measuring head movements during habituation vestibular rehabilitation exercises. The second is...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Hogan AE,Spindel JH,Gray LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/PURPOSE:The acceptable noise level (ANL) test is the only test that is known to predict success with hearing aids with a high degree of accuracy. A person's ANL is the maximal amount of background noise that he or she is "willing to put up with" while listening to running speech. It is defined as the speech ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Recker KL,McKinney MF,Edwards BW

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the listening habits and musical enjoyment of postlingually deafened adults who use cochlear implants. Sixty-five implant recipients (35 females, 30 males) participated in a survey containing questions about musical background, prior involvement in music, and audiologic success with the implant in...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Gfeller K,Christ A,Knutson JF,Witt S,Murray KT,Tyler RS

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of the literature on Alport syndrome (AS) places emphasis on genetic and clinical issues related to the sensorineural hearing loss in type III and type IV X-linked AS. The review covers prevalence, medical issues, genetic issues, audiologic findings, vestibular findings, the pathophysiology of hearing loss...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Wester DC,Atkin CL,Gregory MC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A digital, wireless telephone system, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), was introduced in Australia in 1993. Studies were conducted at the National Acoustic Laboratories to determine how the use of GSM mobile telephones (i.e., wireless telephones) causes interference in hearing aids and how hearing ai...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Byrne D,Burwood E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A model that can accurately predict speech intelligibility for a given hearing-impaired (HI) listener would be an important tool for hearing-aid fitting or hearing-aid algorithm development. Existing speech-intelligibility models do not incorporate variability in suprathreshold deficits that are not well pre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Bernstein JG,Mehraei G,Shamma S,Gallun FJ,Theodoroff SM,Leek MR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) have become common clinical vestibular assessments. However, VEMP testing requires high intensity stimuli, raising concerns regarding safety with children, where sound pressure levels may be higher due to their smaller ear canal volumes. PURP...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Thomas MLA,Fitzpatrick D,McCreery R,Janky KL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bilateral contralateral routing of signals (BICROS) system has provided limited benefit for speech recognition in noise for patients with asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss, even when an automatic adaptive multichannel directional microphone (DM) is in the receiver (Rx) and an omnidirectional micropho...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Valente M,Oeding K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The visual speech signal can provide sufficient information to support successful communication. However, individual differences in the ability to appreciate that information are large, and relatively little is known about their sources. PURPOSE:Here a body of research is reviewed regarding the development ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Auer ET

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Albeit limited, research suggests that students pursuing careers in health care receive limited training on the provision of services for people with hearing loss. As the incidence of hearing loss continues to increase among Americans, it is critical that medical professionals understand how hearing loss amo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Squires ES,Pakulski LA,Glassman J,Diehm E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fusion at Inferred Threshold (FIT) test is a clinically useful procedure for assessing air-conduction pure-tone thresholds in any ear that may not be tested by conventional procedures with masking. It has not been widely reported in the literature. This article describes the FIT test procedure and provides four ca...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Pope ML

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a test to assess the ability of persons with cochlear implants (CIs) to interpret musical signals. Up to this time, the main direction in outcomes studies of cochlear implantation has been in relation to speech recognition abilities. With improvement in CI hardware and processi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Spitzer JB,Mancuso D,Cheng MY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been widely embraced in many health-care fields as a way of maintaining currency of knowledge and state-of-the-art treatment recommendations in an age of information abundance and rapid scientific progress. Although the principles of EBP are slowly entering the specialties of communic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Cox RM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although newborn hearing screening programs have been introduced in most states in Australia, the prevalence of conductive hearing loss and middle ear pathology in the infants referred through these programs is not known. PURPOSE:This study was designed to (1) evaluate the prevalence of conductive hearing l...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Aithal S,Aithal V,Kei J,Driscoll C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case reported here, a 26-year-old woman, has a bilaterally symmetric, severe-to-profound, sensorineural hearing loss, acquired early in life. Phoneme recognition scores were essentially symmetric at the onset of the investigation. She was basically monaurally aided from age 4 to age 24, at which time a loss of fun...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Boothroyd A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of 40 young children (aged five to eight) to understand speech (monosyllables, spondees, trochees, and trisyllables) when listening in a background of real-life classroom noise. All children had some difficulty understanding speech when the noise was at levels found in many classrooms (i.e., 65...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jamieson DG,Kranjc G,Yu K,Hodgetts WE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gaps-In-Noise (GIN) test is a new procedure used in the diagnosis of central auditory processing disorders. Performance on the GIN is recorded as approximate gap detection threshold and percent correct. In order to utilize the GIN test clinically, it is important to know how presentation level influences performan...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Weihing JA,Musiek FE,Shinn JB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been reported that smoking has deleterious effects on the middle ears of smokers, including their eustachian tubes, investigators have failed to find differences in the tympanometric characteristics of smokers and nonsmokers. In the present study, however, we found that the Valsalva-induced tympanometr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Steiger JR,Champon TA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome is among the more common but less familiar syndromes that include sensorineural hearing loss and middle ear disease. This article provides a review of the syndrome, an illustrative case, and a review of specific issues relevant to audiologic management of patients with Turner syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Roush J,Davenport ML,Carlson-Smith C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiment 1 investigated developmental differences at high stimulus rates by using maximum length sequences (MLSs) and cross-correlation techniques to recover auditory evoked brainstem responses (ABRs). Reliable MLS ABRs were recorded in all of the newborns tested at the highest rate presented (minimum interpulse int...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Lasky RE,Perlman J,Hecox K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often ABR threshold testing employs clicks to assess high-frequency hearing, and low-frequency tone bursts to assess low-frequency sensitivity. While a maturation effect has been shown for click stimuli, similar data are lacking for low-frequency toneburst stimuli. Thus, 305 infants ranging in conceptional age (CA) fr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Hurley RM,Hurley A,Berlin CI

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has shown that hearing aid wearers can successfully self-train their instruments' gain-frequency response and compression parameters in everyday situations. Combining hearing aids with a smartphone introduces additional computing power, memory, and a graphical user interface that may enable...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Aldaz G,Puria S,Leifer LJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is broad consensus that screening and diagnosis of permanent hearing loss in children must be embedded within a comprehensive, evidence-based, family-centered intervention program. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for pediatric hearing assessment and hearing aid verification aim to reduce variabilit...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Moodie S,Rall E,Eiten L,Lindley G,Gordey D,Davidson L,Bagatto M,Scollie S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binaural interaction component (BIC) of the auditory brainstem response (ABR) and BIC of the frequency-following response (FFR) to tonal stimuli were studied in normal-hearing adults. The ABR and BIC latencies from all subjects were consistently shorter to the click-like sound than to the 2.0 kHz tone burst. Incre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Parthasarathy TK,Moushegian G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wideband acoustic immittance (WAI) measures provide information about middle-ear function across the traditional audiometric frequency range from 0.25 to 8.0 kHz. Recent studies have found that WAI is effective in predicting the presence of conductive hearing loss (CHL). It is not known whether WAI can accur...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Feeney MP,Sanford CA,Putterman DB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old female presented to our clinic with complaints of hearing loss, tinnitus, and severe rotational vertigo. A test battery including complete audiometric testing, auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry, electronystagmography (ENG), electrocochleography (ECoG), and dehydration testing was performed. Mo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Yellin MW,Waller M,Roland PS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00