The Internet has become an ordinary and widely accepted alternative social environment—known as cyberspace—in which many people take part in numerous activities. For the hearing-impaired, cyberspace provides extra benefits for two basic reasons: means of communication, which is primarily based on visual (text and images) and not auditory channels, and the convenient possibility of concealing th...

The present article describes an approach to the evaluation of psychoacoustic data from the hearing impaired. The results obtained from the hearing impaired in several studies of frequency resolution, temporal resolution, and speech recognition are compared to the results expected for noise-masked normal listeners. It is presumed in this approach that the hypothetical noise-masked normal listen...

Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) were measured in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired human subjects. Analyses based on decision theory were used to evaluate DPOAE test performance. Specifically, relative operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed and the areas under these curves were used to estimate the extent to which normal and impaired ears could be correctly id...

The Modified Rhyme Test (MRT), recorded using natural speech and two forms of synthetic speech, DECtalk and Votrax, was used to measure both open-set and closed-set speechrecognition performance. Performance of hearing-impaired elderly listeners was compared to two groups of young normal-hearing adults, one listening in quiet, and the other listening in a background of spectrally shaped noise d...

Forward-masked psychophysical tuning curves (PTCs) were obtained for 1000-Hz probe tones at multiple probe levels from one ear of 26 normal-hearing listeners and from 24 ears of 21 hearing-impaired listeners with cochlear hearing loss. Comparisons between normal-hearing and hearing-impaired PTCs were made at equivalent masker levels near the tips of PTCs. Comparisons were also made of PTC chara...

Abstract Background Prosody is an important acoustic and linguistic component of speech that greatly contributes to intelligibility. Speech hearing-impaired children shows various deviations from their normal-hearing counterparts due complex physiological mechanisms. Methods Acoustic analysis the prosodic production hearing-impaired, cochlear-implanted, Egyptian children, comparing them a norma...

This article examines the process of formation self-identification children with hearing impairment. In particular, main attention is focused on a hearing-impaired child, as result reading artistic works. The paper outlines general state inclusive educational and teaching suggests ways solving personal barriers through implementation quality literary in

Socio-demographic variables of mothers children born with hearing impairment and between the ages 1-5 normal development, psychological well–being. This study aims to examine whether there is a significant difference levels depression depression. was carried out in Diyarbakir, among who have aged development. One hundred two (102) 51 hearing-impaired non-disabled participated study. Demographic...