Objectives: Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS) is a useful tool for the quantitative evaluation of auditory behaviors in different situations. The  present study  aimed to  develop the Persian version of IT-MAIS.  Methods: There was 4 main steps in the translation and validation of the scale, as follows: forward translation, synthesis, backward translation, and expe...

UNLABELLED The number of people with impaired hearing is increasing; knowing its magnitude is essential for public health. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and determinants of impaired hearing in Itajaí/SC. METHODS A population-based survey based on a World Health Organization protocol. Field research was carried out from July 2008 to 2011. Procedures for evaluating hearing in households: ...

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...

This study investigated the effects of hearing impairment and auditory vs. auditory-visual perception of lexical tone by native Thai hearing impaired listeners: Hearing Impaired with Hearing Aids (HI+HA), Hearing Impaired without Hearing Aids (HIHA), and Normal Hearing (NH). Adults’ discrimination of the 5 Thai tones was investigated in auditory-visual (AV), auditoryonly (AO), and visual-only (...