introduction: hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. this research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   materials and methods: this descriptive-analytic cross-s...

Introduction: Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-s...

hearing loss can affect physical, mental and social health of deaf adults and lead cause depression, anxiety, isolation, suspicion and stress. this study was aimed to compare mental health in the hearing-impaired elderly with hearing aid and hearing-impaired elderly without hearing aids referring to ahvaz imam khomeini hospital. in this cross- sectional study, the participants included 72 heari...

Hearing impairment simulation is an effective technique to educate normal-hearing people about auditory perception of the hearing-impaired. Because auditory characteristics of the hearing impaired vary greatly from person-to-person, personalization of the hearing impairment simulation systems is essential to accurately simulate these individual differences. However, measurement of auditory char...

Some hearing-impaired persons with hearing aids complain of listening difficulty under reverberation. No method, however, is currently available for hearing aid fitting that permits evaluation of hearing difficulty caused by reverberations. In this study, we produced speech materials with a reverberation time of 2.02 s that mimicked a reverberant environment (a classroom). Speech materials with...

the aim of the present study was to examine the reliability and validity ofbalance performance clinical tests for hearing impaired persons with moderatehearing level. in this descriptive-survey study with repeated measures, 220 hearingimpaired subjects with normal intelligence and moderate hearing level wereselected as the statistical sample from all deaf and hearing impaired subjects whohad pa...