OBJECTIVE Determine the extent to which pre-fitting acceptable noise level (ANL), with or without other predictors such as hearing-aid experience, can predict real-world hearing-aid outcomes at three and 12 months post-fitting. DESIGN ANLs were measured before hearing-aid fitting. Post-fitting outcome was assessed using the international outcome inventory for hearing aids (IOI-HA) and a heari...

We have compared changes in vocal function produced after insertion of a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) with those produced by tracheal intubation in 20 patients. Using acoustic waveform analysis, we computed amplitude variability (AV), pitch variability (PV), harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) and additive noise level (ANL) before anaesthesia and at 1, 4, and 24 h after tracheal extubation. There wer...

Disorder (ADHD), or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) have been viewed as distinct entities. According to this view, some children have one, some children have the other, and some children may, indeed, have both, but they are two distinct entities. APD is thought to reflect an auditory-specific perceptual disorder that may become manifest in one or more of...