Aural rehabilitation programme for hearing impaired: a psychosocial intervention

Aural rehabilitation programs for hearing aid users

Many hearing aid users experience substantial communication difficulties that may affect their participation in daily life situations negatively. This experience can be addressed using follow-up rehabilitation programs, yet the overall availability of such programs in general clinical practice (GCP) is low. The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate, explore, and clinically apply aural reha...

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...

Contemporary Hearing Rehabilitation Options in Patients with Aural Atresia

Congenital aural atresia is the failure of development of the external auditory canal. It usually occurs in conjunction with microtia, which is the malformation of the auricle due to a failure of development of the external ear. Aural atresia, with or without microtia, may significantly affect the hearing and social life of the patients. It is important for every medical practitioner to be awar...

Aural Habilitation in Severe to Profound Hearing Impaired Children Below 2 years

HEARING AIDS AND AURAL REHABILITATION A Structured Approach to Hearing Aid Selection

Many different procedures have been suggested for use in hearing aid selection: the practicing audiologist must choose among them. A structured approach to the hearing aid selection process is most likely to result in an optimal choice for each patient. This paper describes one such approach to the process of hearing aid selection which attempts to customize the selection procedure to make maxi...