Effects of a Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant upon speech production in children.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine differences in family environment and associations between family environment and key speech, language, and cognitive outcomes in samples of children with normal hearing and deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who use hearing aids and cochlear implants. DESIGN:Thirty families of children with...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Holt RF,Beer J,Kronenberger WG,Pisoni DB,Lalonde K,Mulinaro L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification errors for initial consonants of consonants-vowels-consonants-vowels from lists A and B of the Nonsense Syllable Test were analyzed for 10 normal-hearing and 8 sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners. The Nonsense Syllable Test stimuli were presented binaurally through earphones at 6 increasing sensati...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Doyle KJ,Danhauer JL,Edgerton BJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current Joint Committee on Infant Hearing guidelines recommend the use of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) as a screening tool to identify hearing loss for newborns cared for in the well-baby nursery. Newborns who do not pass the TEOAE screen before leaving the hospital are typically rescreened...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Prieve BA,Hancur-Bucci CA,Preston JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hearing aid research and application it is often necessary to transform the sound pressure level or acoustic gain measured at one physical point (e.g., 2 cc coupler) to an equivalent value at another physical point (e.g., tympanic membrane). Results of currently available studies on various transformations are summ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Bentler RA,Pavlovic CV

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ipsilateral and contralateral auditory brain stem responses were recorded from both ears of 10 neonates between 37 and 43 weeks from conception with normal auditory brain stem function. The most prominent component of the contralateral response was a forehead positive deflection occurring 0.3 millisecond before the ip...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Edwards CG,Durieux-Smith A,Picton TW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To undertake a systematic review of available evidence on the effect of hearing impairment and hearing aid amplification on listening effort. Two research questions were addressed: Q1) does hearing impairment affect listening effort? and Q2) can hearing aid amplification affect listening effort during speech...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ohlenforst B,Zekveld AA,Jansma EP,Wang Y,Naylor G,Lorens A,Lunner T,Kramer SE

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because some unilaterally hearing-impaired children appear to experience difficulty in communication and educational progress, it seems only appropriate to reassess the identification and management strategies that are used with these children. Accordingly, this paper presents some general information on identificatio...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Bess FH,Klee T,Culbertson JL

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory middle latency response (MLR) seems to have a relatively long developmental time course, extending through the first decade of life. Characteristics of each MLR component change developmentally not only with respect to waveform morphology but also with respect to response reliability, dependence on awaren...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McGee T,Kraus N

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study of two groups of tinnitus patients was conducted in an attempt to evaluate the tinnitus masking program. Results are discussed separately for a group of patients seen during the first three years of the program (1976 through 1978) and during the last year (1979). These results suggest an improvement ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Schleuning AJ,Johnson RM,Vernon JA

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Long-term Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) predisposes to various secondary middle ear diseases. Most surgical and prosthetical interventions on the Eustachian tube itself have proven to be ineffective, whereas middle ear surgeries treat the sequelae of ETD without major influence on the underlying tubal pa...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Caffier PP,Sedlmaier B,Haupt H,Göktas O,Scherer H,Mazurek B

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short closed-set test of speech discrimination using consonants frequently confused by the hearing impaired and scored on the basis of distinctive features was developed and examined for reliability. In experiment I the Distinctive Feature Difference (DFD) Test and the CID W-22 Test were low-pass filtered and presen...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Feeney MP,Franks JR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with a variety of sensory complications. Very little attention has been given to auditory neuropathic complications in DM. The aim of this study was to determine whether type 1 DM (T1DM) affects neural coding of the rapid temporal fluctuations of sounds, and how any defic...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： AlJasser A,Uus K,Prendergast G,Plack CJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No outcome measure has universal validity and applicability. When designing, promulgating or selecting a particular instrument, audiologists should take care to consider and specify the detailed purposes to which the measure will be directed, and the particular populations to which it will be applied. Scales that have...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gatehouse S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Comparison of preverbal communication behavior in young children before receiving cochlear implants with outcomes 3 yr after implantation on speech identification and speech production tasks, to assess whether outcomes can be predicted from characteristics inherent to the child before implantation. DESIGN:Vi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Tait M,Lutman ME,Robinson K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine differences among various test protocols on the fail rate at hospital discharge for infants in the well-baby nursery (WBN) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who received hearing screening through a universal newborn hearing screening demonstration project. DESIGN:The outcomes of several scre...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gravel J,Berg A,Bradley M,Cacace A,Campbell D,Dalzell L,DeCristofaro J,Greenberg E,Gross S,Orlando M,Pinheiro J,Regan J,Spivak L,Stevens F,Prieve B

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the accuracy of cochlear implant recipients who use different types of devices and signal processing strategies on pitch ranking as a function of size of interval and frequency range and (b) to examine the relations between this pitch perception measure and demog...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gfeller K,Turner C,Oleson J,Zhang X,Gantz B,Froman R,Olszewski C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In bilateral cochlear implant users, electrodes mapped to the same frequency range in each ear may stimulate different places in each cochlea due to an insertion depth difference of electrode arrays. This interaural place of stimulation mismatch can lead to problems with auditory image fusion and sensitivity...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Kan A,Litovsky RY,Goupell MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients suffering from vestibular disorders (VD) often present with impairments in cognitive domains such as visuospatial ability, memory, executive function, attention, and processing speed. These symptoms can be attributed to extensive vestibular projections throughout the cerebral cortex and subcortex on...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Danneels M,Van Hecke R,Keppler H,Degeest S,Cambier D,van de Berg R,Van Rompaey V,Maes L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing conservation programs (HCPs) mandated by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cost about $350/worker/year. Are they cost-effective? A cross-sectional model of the US adult population with and without HCPs incorporates (1) the American Medical Association's method for estimating binaural ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dobie RA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While the cochlear implant provides many deaf patients with good speech understanding in quiet, music perception and appreciation with the cochlear implant remains a major challenge for most cochlear implant users. The present study investigated whether a closed-set melodic contour identification (MCI) task c...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Galvin JJ 3rd,Fu QJ,Nogaki G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to characterize auditory function in patients diagnosed with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). DESIGN:Eighteen patients with PTLDS were evaluated and compared to a normal population. Evaluations consisted of pure tone and speech thresholds, word recognition (WRS), ac...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Shotland LI,Mastrioanni MA,Choo DL,Szymko-Bennett YM,Dally LG,Pikus AT,Sledjeski K,Marques A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hearing-impaired children are at risk for vestibular damage and delayed motor development. Two major causes of congenital hearing loss are cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and connexin (Cx) 26 mutations. Comparison of the motor performance and vestibular function between these specific groups is still underex...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Maes L,De Kegel A,Van Waelvelde H,De Leenheer E,Van Hoecke H,Goderis J,Dhooge I

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although previous research indicates that cognitive skills influence benefit from different types of hearing aid algorithms, comparatively little is known about the role of, and potential interaction with, hearing loss. This holds true especially for noise reduction (NR) processing. The purpose of the presen...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Neher T,Grimm G,Hohmann V,Kollmeier B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the maximum stimulus levels at which a measured auditory steady-state response (ASSR) can be assumed to be a reliable measure of auditory thresholds. DESIGN:ASSR thresholds were measured at octave frequencies from 500 to 4000 Hz in 10 subjects with profound hearing loss. These subjects provided ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gorga MP,Neely ST,Hoover BM,Dierking DM,Beauchaine KL,Manning C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pediatric vestibular evaluations incorporate cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (c- and oVEMP, respectively) testing; however, in children, c- and oVEMP thresholds have been minimally investigated and frequency tuning is unknown. Children are also at risk for unsafe sound exposure secon...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Rodriguez AI,Thomas MLA,Janky KL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was conducted to examine improvements of cognitive abilities after cochlear implantation in deaf children. We also examined the psychosocial factors that predict good outcomes of cochlear implantation. DESIGN:A neuropsychological test battery was administered to 17 deaf children (mean age, 7 yr 2...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Shin MS,Kim SK,Kim SS,Park MH,Kim CS,Oh SH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data concerning hearing aid monitoring practices and hearing aid malfunction were collected for three groups of mainstreamed hearing-impaired children: 248 children receiving services from itinerant teachers of the hearing impaired, 43 who participated in a study involving extensive psychoeducational evaluation, and 1...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Elfenbein JL,Bentler RA,Davis JM,Niebuhr DP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reviews audiologic findings on cases of hearing-impaired elderly adults who were matched on the basis of peripheral hearing loss and who were divided into cochlear and retrocochlear groups on the basis of auditory brain stem response (ABR) test results. ABR test results were compared to other audiologic tes...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Rizzo SR Jr,Gutnick HN

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The ability of human listeners to identify consonants (presented as nonsense syllables) on the basis of primarily temporal information was compared with the predictions of a simple model based on the amplitude modulation spectra of the stimuli calculated for six octave-spaced carrier frequencies (250 to 8000...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gallun F,Souza P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of number of channels and speech-to-noise ratio on connected discourse tracking (CDT) through simulations of cochlear implant speech processing. Previous studies have used citation-form vowel and consonant materials or simple sentences. CDT rates were expected to be less likely to b...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Faulkner A,Rosen S,Wilkinson L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00