منابع مشابه
Benefit from, and acclimatization to, frequency compression hearing aids in experienced adult hearing-aid users.
OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate whether frequency compression (FC) hearing aids provide additional benefit to that conferred by conventional amplification. DESIGN Participants wore the same hearing aid with FC enabled and disabled for six weeks (ABA design) in each condition. Speech recognition tests (in both quiet and in noise) were administered alongside two questionnaires. Performance...
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Previous work concerning the late-onset auditory deprivation and/or acclimatization effect in adult hearing-aid users has suggested that the benefits of a particular frequency response from a hearing aid may not become apparent until material exposure to that frequency response has been achieved. The generality of that finding was tested further. A group of subjects who were established users (...
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BACKGROUND benefit and acclimatization. AIM to characterize the short-term benefits presented by adults, recent users of hearing aids, through objective (functional gain) and subjective (self-evaluation questionnaires) procedures. The possible occurrence of the phenomenon of acclimatization was also investigated based on the analysis of the speech recognition percent index (SRPI) before the f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ear & Hearing
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0196-0202
DOI: 10.1097/aud.0b013e3182a8eda4