The maintenance and utilisation of government fitted hearing aids

Profile of patients with cleft palate fitted with hearing AIDS.

UNLABELLED Cleft palates cause alterations in palate and lip structures, and it may also cause hearing loss because of recurrent otitis media. The appropriate treatment is controversial. It may include the prescription of antibiotics and insertion of a ventilation tube, or even otorhinolaryngological and audiological assistance, and hearing rehabilitation, with the use of an individual sound am...

Why do people fitted with hearing aids not wear them?

OBJECTIVE Age-related hearing loss is an increasingly important public health problem affecting approximately 40% of 55-74 year olds. The primary clinical management intervention for people with hearing loss is hearing aids, however, the majority (80%) of adults aged 55-74 years who would benefit from a hearing aid, do not use them. Furthermore, many people given a hearing aid do not wear it. T...

Evaluation of the benefit of amplification in children fitted with hearing aids

INTRODUCTION  In Brazil, it is rare studies with using deaf children of auditory device above of seven years. OBJECTIVE  To investigate the benefit supplied for the amplification in deaf children to 7 years old to 11 years old using auditory device, under the perspective of the proper child and the adults with who it more coexists, and to verify if the time of conviviality of the adults with ...

Speech discrimination and intelligibility: outcome of deaf children fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants.

We retrospectively studied outcome of a sample of 36 congenitally deaf children who were fitted with either a conventional hearing aid (HA, N = 14) or a cochlear implant (CI, N = 22), and who received many years of audio-phonatory training by our multi-disciplinary team. In order to rate speech discrimination perception, we developed a new metric of speech discrimination performance based on se...

A Comparison of Speech Audiometric Performance of Hypacusics With Clinic-fitted Hearing Aids and With Master Hearing Aid