Outcome survey of auditory-verbal graduates: study of clinical efficacy.

abstract：:The purpose of this single-subject pilot study was to examine the efficacy of FM amplification for enhancing the discourse skills of a 4-year-old girl with a history of speech-language impairments, otitis media with effusion (OME), and motoric delays. Over a period of several weeks, language treatment sessions were co...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Clarke-Klein SM,Roush J,Roberts JE,Davis K,Medley L

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed speech perception benefits for three congenitally deaf adolescents who used an electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker(TM)) and subsequently went on to use a Nucleus Minisystem 22 cochlear implant. Both devices provided significant and comparable benefits for all children in the device plus ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Sarant J,Cowan R,Blamey P,Galvin K,Clark G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electrocochleography (ECochG) is the measurement of stimulus-related cochlear potentials and the compound action potential (AP). Its primary clinical application is with the assessment of inner ear disorders. There are few studies examining the variability of ECochG measures. PURPOSE:The objective of the st...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Lake AB,Stuart A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

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：:This multisite investigation assessed subjective, behavioral, and objective balance function in 30 blast survivors. Subjects with vertigo, dizziness, or imbalance were screened (n = 6) or evaluated (n = 27) during 1 year. Tests included a questionnaire, electronystagmography (ENG), and computerized dynamic posturograp...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Van Campen LE,Dennis JM,King SB,Hanlin RC,Velderman AM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) is a self-report questionnaire that is used to quantify the impact of a hearing problem on an individual's daily life. In this investigation, the relationships were explored between typical clinical audiometric data and the four subscale scores of the APHAB admini...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Cox RM,Alexander GC,Gray GA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The scalp-recorded frequency-following response (FFR) has been widely accepted in assessing the brain's processing of speech stimuli for people who speak tonal and nontonal languages. Characteristics of scalp-recorded FFRs with increasing number of sweeps have been delineated through the use of an exponentia...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jeng FC,Nance B,Montgomery-Reagan K,Lin CD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing aid fitting for individuals with high-frequency impairment has been difficult because of the limited gain available at those frequencies. Special high-frequency emphasis hearing aids have been developed in an attempt to alleviate this problem. The insertion-gain responses and changes in speech-recognition perf...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Lee LW,Humes LE,Wilde G

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of stimulus rate and gender on the auditory middle latency response (AMLR) waveforms were examined in 20 young adult male and female subjects. Four different repetition rates were presented to subjects (1.1/sec, 4.1/sec, 7.7/ sec, and 11.3/sec). Stimulus repetition rate had a significant effect on Pa laten...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Tucker DA,Dietrich S,Harris S,Pelletier S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central auditory test results for three normal-hearing children who were initially diagnosed as having a central auditory processing disorder and learning disability are presented. They were referred to the authors for second-opinion consultations. Central auditory processing retesting was performed by the authors...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Silman S,Silverman CA,Emmer MB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old male was evaluated by the authors after initially reporting fullness in his left ear while traveling on an airplane. A unique feature of the patient's complaint was the development of severe bilateral hyperacusis (loudness discomfort levels of between 20-34 dB HL) in spite of the fact that the hearing lo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Valente M,Goebel J,Duddy D,Sinks B,Peterein J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests that hearing-aid users have difficulties with own-voice level control, most likely because their auditory feedback is affected by hearing-aid amplification. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to investigate how changes to auditory feedback affect the voice level of hearing-aid users. R...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Laugesen S,Nielsen C,Maas P,Jensen NS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balance Function test data alone cannot capture the reaction that a patient has to balance system disease. The present investigation examined the relations among components of the balance function examination (electronystagmography, rotational testing, and platform posturography) and self-perceived dizziness handicap,...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jacobson GP,Newman CW,Hunter L,Balzer GK

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six parents of 106 children (34% response rate) born between March 2000 and February 2003 retrospectively completed the "Probe of Parents' Perceptions: An Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Outcome Measure" (PPP) assessing their participation in an emerging community-based newborn hearing screening...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Danhauer JL,Johnson CE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Various methods have been used to measure temporal-fine-structure (TFS) sensitivity in hearing-impaired (HI) listeners. A new method called TFS-adaptive frequency (TFS-AF) test, tracks the highest frequency up to which a person can detect a given interaural phase difference (IPD) in bursts of pure tones. So ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Mathew DS,Sreenivasan A,Alexander A,Palani S

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Loudness discomfort levels (LDLs) were measured in dB HL and SPL at discrete frequencies between 500 to 4000 Hz on 31 hearing-impaired ears using TDH-50P and ER-3A earphones. The results revealed no significant differences in the measured sound pressure level (SPL) between the two earphones at all test frequencies. Ho...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Valente M,Potts LG,Valente M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescriptive methods have been at the core of modern hearing aid fittings for the past several decades. Every decade or so, there have been revisions to existing methods and/or the emergence of new methods that become widely used. In 2001 Byrne et al provided a comparison of insertion gain for generic prescr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Johnson EE,Dillon H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relation between the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) and behavioral audiometric thresholds requires further clarification in the case of adults with auditory neuropathy/auditory dys-synchrony (AN/AD). PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to compare pure-tone audiometric threshold (PTAT) and ASSR in a...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jafari Z,Malayeri S,Ashayeri H,Farahani MA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we review, and discuss the clinical implications of, five projects currently underway in the Cochlear Implant Laboratory at Arizona State University. The projects are (1) norming the AzBio sentence test, (2) comparing the performance of bilateral and bimodal cochlear implant (CI) patients in realistic ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Dorman MF,Spahr A,Gifford RH,Cook S,Zhang T,Loiselle L,Yost W,Cardy L,Whittingham J,Schramm D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multimemory hearing aids have theoretical advantages over conventional "single memory" hearing aids, research and clinical data are not available to support their efficacy. The present study reports on the usefulness of a commercially available multimemory hearing aid in daily listening situations. Nineteen e...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kuk FK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:The literature suggests that directional microphone hearing aids (DMHAs) are a viable means for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for hearing-impaired listeners. The amount of directional advantage they provide, however, remains relatively unclear because of variability observed among individual studies. The p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Amlani AM

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：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 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：BACKGROUND:Untreated sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is associated with chronic health-care conditions, isolation, loneliness, and reduced quality of life. Although hearing aids can minimize the negative effects of SNHL, only about one in five persons with SNHL seeks help for communication problems. Many persons wait...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Johnson CE,Danhauer JL,Ellis BB,Jilla AM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Words-in-Noise (WIN) test uses monosyllabic words in seven signal-to-noise ratios of multitalker babble (MTB) to evaluate the ability of individuals to understand speech in background noise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the criterion validity of the WIN by comparing recognition performances under MTB ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Wilson RH,Carnell CS,Cleghorn AL

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Sloping hearing loss imposes limits on audibility for high-frequency sounds in many hearing aid users. Signal processing algorithms that shift high-frequency sounds to lower frequencies have been introduced in hearing aids to address this challenge by improving audibility of high-frequency sounds. PURPOSE:T...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kirby BJ,Kopun JG,Spratford M,Mollak CM,Brennan MA,McCreery RW

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00