Does a hearing-impaired individual’s speech reflect his hearing loss? To investigate this question, we recorded at least four hours of speech data from each of 29 adult individuals, both male and female, belonging to four classes: 3 normal, and 26 severely-to-profoundly hearing impaired with high, medium or low speech intelligibility. Acoustic kernels were learned for each individual by capturi...

The lack of the auditory sense in the hearing-impaired raises the question as to the extent to which this deficiency affects their cognitive and intellectual skills. Studies have pointed out, that with regard to reasoning, particularly when the process of induction is required, hearing-impaired children usually have difficulties. They experience similar difficulties with their ability to think ...

Generally, the performance of a hearing-impaired child with his or her hearing aids is the major criterion in selection programmes for cochlear implantation. Thereto, it has to be considered whether the hearing-aid fitting is optimal. For this purpose, methods which prescribe hearing-aid gain are valuable, especially in young preverbal children. Three of these methods were evaluated by comparin...

Congenital hearing loss is estimated to affect one in every 1,000 newborns. Causes of hearing loss can be conductive, sensorineural, mixed, or central. Known risk factors for congenital hearing loss include cytomegalovirus infection and premature birth necessitating a stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. However, up to 42 percent of profoundly hearing-impaired children will be missed using...

Our purpose is to apply a basilar hardware membrane model (BMM) to hearing-aid systems to solve some of the problem in existing hearing-aid systems. In this study, we construct a BMM using Simulink. Also, we experiment on the response characteristics of our BMM implementation to C6713DSK, using real sounds and hearing-loss sounds, which imitate a hearing-impaired person’s hearing ability. It is...

To dissociate the effects of age and hearing impairment on changes in frequency selectivity, auditory filter shapes were measured at 2 kHz in four groups of subjects: (1) normal-hearing young subjects; (2) normal-hearing elderly subjects; (3) elderly hearing-impaired listeners; and (4) young normal-hearing listeners with simulated hearing losses. Filter shapes were derived using a modified vers...

The article presents the results of analysis problem creativity and creative work in children with disabilities having different impairments. This research serves as a basis for conducting separate study aimed at researching peculiarities search solutions process completing figure drawings younger schoolchildren hearing impairments compared to their peers normal hearing. For this purpose, compa...

This research aimed to measure social emotional adjustment of hearing impaired children from both primary and elementary levels in Bahawalpur Division. Social Emotional Assessment Inventory (SEAI) was used to collect data from teachers of randomly selected 256 hearing impaired children studying at primary and elemntary levels. Descriptive statistics and t-test were applied to analyse the data. ...

OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to explore the cost-utility of pediatric cochlear implantation, incorporating savings associated with education into the analysis. METHODS The costs of pediatric cochlear implantation were based on the full costs levied to purchasers, inclusive of complications and maintenance, by a large pediatric cochlear implant program in the United Kingdom. ...