BACKGROUND After the adaptation of hearing aids, an improvement in speech understanding is expected to occur, called acclimatization. AIM To determine the effect of acclimatization in sentences recognition threshold, for the conditions of silence (SRTQ) and noise (SRTN), in new users of hearing aids, evaluated prior to and after acclimatization, without the use of the hearing aids. METHOD P...

background and aim: function-based inter­vention have been shown to have positive increase in social skills of children with behavi­oral problems. the same findings can be potentially applied to the deaf and hard of hearing (d/hh) children. the present study examined the efficacy of differential reinforce­ment of alternative behavior (dra) on the on-task behaviors of deaf and hard of hearing st...

This paper describes an automatic speech recognition system designed to investigate the use of phoneme recognition as a hearing aid in telephone communication. The system was tested in two experiments. The first involved 19 normal hearing subjects with a simulated severe hearing impairment. The second involved 5 hearing impaired subjects. In both studies we used a procedure called Speech Tracki...

Introduction: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a probable complication of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) Surgery, that may be due to embolism, perfusion failure and consumption of ototoxic drugs. Since the incidence of SNHL after CABG is different according to the various reports, the present study was designed to study hearing threshold change after CABG surgery. Method: In this cross...