...Ryota Sakurai; Maki Nishinakagawa; Keigo Hinakura; Masatoki Takahashi Introduction: Positive effects of hearing aids (HA) have been suggested. However, their impact on gait performance, which is closely associated with hearing loss and cognition, remains unclear. This pilot study assessed...

...Pauline Roger; Thomas Lespargot; Catherine Boiteux; Eric Bailly-Masson; Fabien Auberger; Sandrine Mouysset; Bernard Fraysse Introduction: The aims of this study were to measure the effectiveness of hearing aid (HA) fitting in improving understanding in quiet and in noise and to investigate...

...Nedim Ugur Kaya; Emine Aydin; F. Ceyda Akin Ocal; Bulent Satar Introduction: We were conducting this study to evaluate the effects of different hearing aid adaptation formulas on middle latency responses (MLR) in adult hearing aid users. Methods: The study included 72 participants: those...

..., and hearing aid usage, are reported in the method section. The onset of hearing aid use was 12.50 ± 8.10 months in the mild HL group and 8.80 ± 4.50 months in the moderate HL group. In the group with mild HL, the average pure-tone hearing threshold without hearing aids was 32.95 ± 2.96 dB HL, while...

...Gi-Sung Nam; Young Jae Lee; Hansoo Song; Jeonghyun Oh; Sung Il Cho Introduction: The international outcome inventory for hearing aids (IOI-HA) is a questionnaire widely used to assess the subjective benefits of hearing aids. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between IOI-HA outcomes...

...Aysenur Kucuk Ceyhan; Haci Huseyin Dere; Banu Mujdeci Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new auditory training (AT) program on the speech recognition in the noise and on the auditory event-related potentials in elderly hearing aid users. Methods: Thirty...

...Xunyi Wang; Yun Zheng; Gang Li; Jingzhe Lu; Yan Yin Introduction: Outcome assessment for hearing aids (HAs) is an essential part of HA fitting and validation. There is no consensus about the best or standard approach for evaluating HA outcomes. And, the relationship between objective and subjective...

...Jack Shohet; Jacqueline Bibee; Joni Doherty; Cheryl Tanita; Gina Patzkowski; Deanna Gende Introduction: Contact hearing aids (CHA) offer potential advantages over conventional acoustic hearing aids (AHA) in terms of sound quality, reduced occlusion, and increased high-frequency gain. This study...

... of the blocks (unaided-aided) was varied. The different speech lists for each speech test were randomized to be evenly spread at both the unaided and the aided test situation. The Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) and the Glasgow Benefit Inventory (GBI) questionnaires were completed...

... Opstal, 2004]. Finally, listening to sounds coming from the impaired side is also challenging for these patients. Many studies have been carried out in order to define the optimal treatment for this pathological condition. Contralateral rerouting of signal (CROS) hearing aids [Bosman et al., 2003...

...Kristin Uhler; Melinda C. Anderson; Herman A. Jenkins This study examined the safety and efficacy of a fully implantable active middle ear (AMEI) system. Outcome measures assessed AMEI performance compared with an optimally fitted conventional hearing aid (CHA). Fifty adults with stable, symmetric...

...Matthew G. Crowson; Debara L. Tucci An osseointegrated implant (e.g. bone-anchored hearing aid, BAHA) is a surgically implantable device for unilateral sensorineural and unilateral or bilateral conductive hearing loss in patients who otherwise cannot use or do not prefer a conventional air...

... this is the case. Patients using a short electrode array of 10 mm and bilateral hearing aids were tested on localization. Dunn et al. [2010] reported that hearing preservation listeners could localize with a root mean square (RMS) error of about 25°. Testing was conducted in an 11 × 15 foot sound-deadened...

...Mansze Mok; Karyn L. Galvin; Richard C. Dowell; Colette M. McKay The aims of the present study are to investigate: (1) the effect of using a hearing aid (HA) or a second cochlear implant (2nd CI) on speech recognition in noise for children; (2) the ability to perceive phoneme groups of different...

...Mansze Mok; Karyn L. Galvin; Richard C. Dowell; Colette M. McKay The aims of this study were to: (1) determine if spatial unmasking existed and differed for children with normal hearing, a hearing aid and a cochlear implant (CIHA), and bilateral implants (BICI); (2) determine if binaural advantage...

...Jiunn-Liang Wu; Hui-Mei Yang; Yi-Hui Lin; Qian-Jie Fu The present study investigated whether moderate amounts of computer-assisted speech training can improve the speech recognition performance of hearing-impaired children. Ten Mandarin-speaking children (3 hearing aid users and 7 cochlear implant...

...Curtis J. Billings; Kelly L. Tremblay; Pamela E. Souza; Malcolm A. Binns Hearing aid amplification can be used as a model for studying the effects of auditory stimulation on the central auditory system (CAS). We examined the effects of stimulus presentation level on the physiological detection...

...Teresa Y.C. Ching; Paula Incerti; Mandy Hill; Emma van Wanrooy Aim: The aim of this paper was to summarize the binaural advantages for sentence perception in noise and sound localization obtained by children and adults who wore a cochlear implant (CI) and a hearing aid in opposite ears (bimodal...

... and prognostication of speech-language development in children with hearing loss. The present study assessed the clinical features of hearing and some aspects of language development in congenital deafness due either to GJB2 mutations or to other factors in Japanese patients who had been habilitated with hearing aids...

... and in noise were measured with hearing aids, cochlear implant alone and in the combined stimulation mode (EAS) in the same ear. Hearing could be partially preserved in 11 out of the 13 patients. All patients scored significantly higher with cochlear implant alone than with hearing aids. Seven patients scored...