My First Hearing-Impaired Patient

When the patient is hearing-impaired.

[Patient with diabetes and impaired hearing].

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Comparison of the Speech Syntactic Features between Hearing-Impaired and Normal Hearing Children

Introduction: The present study seeks to describe and analyze the syntactic features of children with severely hearing loss who had access to the hearing aids compared with children with normal hearing, assigning them to the same separate gender classes.   Materials and Methods: In the present study, eight children with severe hearing impairment who used a hearing aid and eight hearing children...

Satisfaction with Hearing Aids Based on Technology and Style among Hearing Impaired Persons

Introduction: Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-s...

normally-hearing and sensorineurally hearing-impaired adults

The present study provides comparative evaluation of the ABR and MLR to 1 kHz brief tones in two groups of hearing-impaired subjects (noise-masked normally-hearing; and sensorineurally hearing-impaired adults), as well as a normally-hearing control group. Tones were presented at intensities from threshold to 80 /90 dB nHL. The results of this study show that: (1) the ABR and MLR to these low-fr...