Amplification and aural rehabilitation in resource-constrained environments

Amplification and Aural Rehabilitation Hearing Aid Benefit in Everyday Environments

Hearing aid benefit was measured for three matched groups of eleven hearing-impaired subjects, each serving in one typical listening environment. Benefit was quantified in terms of improvement in intelligibility score for the Connected Speech Test. Each subject was individually fitted with three hearing aids, differing in nominal frequency response slope by a total of 8 dB/octave. Research ques...

Testing in Resource-Constrained Environments

mHealth in Resource-Constrained Environments

The use of mobile devices in telemedicine contributes to providing more effective and efficient remote healthcare in rural areas improving patients’ life style and medical quality of service in this setting. The idea of creating mobile applications for this scenario led the authors to face important sociotechnical challenges in terms of innovation and design for resource-constrained environment...

Cooperative Internet Access in Resource Constrained Environments

Access to the Internet has become available at virtually any place in developed and developing countries, either by fixed-line or wireless access. The Internet users are used to check emails, read web pages, or see a video at any time via the Internet and are annoyed if the access does not work or does work but too slowly for the used application. The access to the Internet is stable and fast e...

Amplification and Aural Rehabilitation Reliability and lntersubject Variability of the Real Ear Unaided Response

lntratester test-retest reliability of the real ear unaided response (REUR) was determined on 49 ears using the Frye 6500 real ear analyzer. Results revealed mean differences of less than 1 dB for repeat measurements at seven test frequencies between 250 and 4000 Hz. The average peak resonant frequency of the repeated measure was within 16 Hz of the initial measure. In addition, the intersubjec...