background and aim : hearing impairment affects educational skills of hearing-impaired students, but its negative impact is far more on reading and writing skills. this study was per­formed to design and validate an educational software to improve writing skills. methods : in this study, the mixed-methods approach was used. in the first step, the qualitative method was used to design the educat...

Fluctuating noise, common in everyday environments, has the potential to mask acoustic cues important for speech recognition. This study examined the extent to which acoustic cues for perception of vowels and stop consonants differ in their susceptibility to simultaneous and forward masking. Younger normal-hearing, older normal-hearing, and older hearing-impaired adults identified initial and f...

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...

the use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. cued speech is a very new approach to persian speaking pupils. our aim was to develop a useful website to give related informatio...

With the emphasis on quality assurance and patient satisfaction in health care, decision making in rehabilitative audiology is a critical issue. Traditionally, rehabilitative decisions have been based on questionable assessment procedures and unproven treatment methods. In this paper, current strategies for decision making with hearing-impaired adults will be presented. Discussion will focus on...

BACKGROUND we aimed to assess both cross-sectional and temporal links between measured hearing impairment and self-perceived hearing handicap, and health outcomes. METHODS in total, 811 Blue Mountains Hearing Study participants (Sydney, Australia) aged ≥55 years were examined twice (1997-99 and 2002-04). Hearing levels were measured with pure-tone audiometry. The shortened version of the hear...

This study examined the performance of four subject groups on several temporally based measures of auditory processing and several measures of speech identification. The four subjects groups were (a) young normal-hearing adults; (b)-hearing-impaired elderly subjects ranging in age from 65 to 75 years; (c) hearing-impaired elderly adults ranging in age from 76 to 86 years; and (d) young normal-h...

This study aims to compare the use (and related costs) of different health care resources between groups of normally-hearing and hearing-impaired people. A distinction was made between hearing-related and other health care contacts. Data were collected at the baseline measurement of the national longitudinal study on hearing, and at each month during a subsequent period of six months. Hearing s...

To investigate the effect of acquired sensorineural hearing loss on speech perception at the acoustic-phonetic level, eight hearingimpaired and eight normally hearing adults were asked to identify and discriminate between a number of synthetic speech stimuli. Two sets of six speech stimuli were used; one set varied in terms of the voicing dimension with endpoint stimuli of “coat” and “goat”, wh...

Lexical tone perception in Thai adults with normal hearing and those with sensorineural hearing-loss using hearing aids was investigated to evaluate the benefit of using hearing aids for tone perception. Tone perception pattern across groups was also compared. Identification tests (with white noise and clean conditions) using a two alternative forced choice task were carried out to systematical...