RESULTS Out-patient and in-patient caseloads differ between the two services: 27% of the deaf out-patient caseload have schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (compared with 19% of hearing patients) and 19% have neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (compared with 8% of hearing patients). The general psychiatric service out-patient case-load had rates of 8% and 43% for ...

Minimal Hearing Loss (MHL) is a commonly overlooked clinical problem; it affects about 5% of children. Children with MHL may be at risk academically due to their poorer speech perception in the noisy classrooms [1]. MHL has generally been defined as a group of hearing disorders that include mild hearing loss, unilateral hearing loss, and high-frequency hearing loss. MHL may result from conducti...

One example of work that has a high risk in the world railways is maintenance railway facilities. risks posed comes from noise generated activities carried out. This study used Soundlevel Meter tool to measure intensity facility environment. The measured level equivalent level. also seeks find out impact and what prevention steps have been taken. environment, especially final test, 90.82 dB. ex...

Hearing loss is common in school-age individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) and extensive in adults. Prior studies with relatively small sample sizes suggest that hearing loss in WS has an early onset and may be progressive, yet the auditory phenotype and the scope of the hearing loss have not been adequately characterized. We used standard audiometric tools: Otoscopy, tympanometry, air-conduc...

background: our hearing ability in space is critical for hearing speech in noisy environment and localization. the spatial hearing questionnaire (shq) has been devised to focus only on spatial haring tasks (e.g., lateralization, distance detection and binaural detection). the aim of the present study was to determine the reliability and validity of the persian translation of the shq (spatial he...

UNLABELLED To check the rate of failure, hearing loss and its association with demographic variables and risk indicators for hearing loss in newborns submitted to the Newborn Hearing Screening in a secondary hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional and retrospective study, involving 1,570 newborns submitted to the different stages of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program. Initially, we...