OBJECTIVE The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory is a questionnaire for assessing the impact of tinnitus by quantifying psychoemotional and functional problems it causes. The objective of the study was to validate the Brazilian Portuguese translation of this questionnaire, named Questionario de Gravidade do Zumbido. METHODS The questionnaire was applied to 135 individuals with tinnitus from two audi...

Introdução: Os termos ‘e-audiologia’, ‘teleaudiologia’, ‘teleprática em audiologia’ e variações, possuem uma característica comum: avanços tecnológicos na audiologia. Objetivo: O estudo busca avaliar a evolução desdobramentos da audiologia modelo remoto no Brasil comparação outros países, assim como as vantagens adversidades proporcionadas por este modelo. Método: Uma revisão integrativa foi re...

Emma Rushbrooke and K. Todd Houston and contributing chapter authors have produced an excellent book, Telepractice in Audiology. It includes practical information on how to develop and implement a successful telepractice program. The book’s organization is easy to follow with key points and a summary section for individual chapters. The authors address technological requirements, service delive...

Self-assessment questionnaires in rehabilitative audiology typically possess the measurement characteristics of scales based on forced-choice and rank-order. Data from these ordinal scales neither support arithmetic analysis nor arithmetic interpretation. However, powerful nonparametric statistics are available for application to data from ordinal level questionnaires. Thus, methodologic princi...

In our project AudioMine we wish to address the problem that we need to understand more of the underlying factors influencing which patients would benefit from being fitted with a hearing aid. We describe some results from our pilot study, in which two data mining techniques, the chi-squared test and self-organising maps, were used to discover associations between various fields in 20,000 patie...

Telepractice has emerged as a form of service delivery to assess and treat individuals with communication disorders. The present study surveyed speech-language pathologists and audiologists in India about the use of telepractice. Two hundred and five (N=205) speech-language pathologists and audiologists responded to a questionnaire, with 12.19% reporting their use of telepractice to deliver cli...

In 1946, Metz described what was probably the first practical impedance bridge for measurement of the acoustic reflex. Over the next four decades, diagnostic use of the acoustic reflex progressed in parallel with instrumentation refinements. Today, acoustic reflex threshold and decay testing are a routine component of the diagnostic audiology test battery. Recent advances in the measurement of ...