background and aim: hearing loss is one of the most prevalent disabilities. children with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) normally experience numerous problems. however, the extents of educational and communicational problems are not usually diagnosed in these children. therefore, the aim of the current study was to compare children with hearing loss using hearing aids with...

Hearing aid method by equalizing frequency response of phoneme which is extracted from human voice is proposed. One of the problems of the existing hearing aid is poor customization of the frequency response compensation. Frequency response characteristics are different by the person who need hearing aid. The proposed hearing aid is based on frequency response equalization by phoneme by phoneme...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We investigated usage of and satisfaction with hearing aid devices in everyday life among older adults with hearing loss. Our research further advances the role of hearing contexts for hearing aid use and satisfaction. A central assumption was that hearing aid owners adapt the usage of the hearing aid devices to contextual demands of hearing depending on their personal ...

The design for a multichannel compression hearing aid was developed from previous experimental and theoretical work in our laboratory concerning pitch perception in normal-hearing subjects. The new hearing aid, implemented with off-line digital signal processing, was tested on twenty subjects with sensorineural hearing loss using speech sounds in a background of speech-spectrum noise. Five sign...