Author: Paul Steele NiswanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deafness
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Non-speech Sound Discrimination in Subjects with Impaired Hearing
Author: Paul Steele NiswanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deafness
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Hearing Loss
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309092965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.
Discrimination by Normally Hearing Subjects for Filtered Speech Under Conditions of Hearing Aid Amplification
Author: Constance Rae WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hearing
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The Ability of Mildly Hearing-impaired Individuals to Discriminate Speech in Noise
Author: Alice Harriet SuterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audiometry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Auditory Evoked Potentials
Author: Robert F. BurkardPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781757560
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Written by experts with extensive clinical and scientific experience, this comprehensive textbook presents the state of the art in auditory evoked potentials. Opening chapters explain the nature of electrical fields that generate surface recorded potentials, summarize the imaging modalities that complement evoked potential studies, and review acoustics and instrumentation. Major sections examine the anatomy and physiology of the auditory periphery, brainstem, and cortex and the principles and clinical applications of auditory, myogenic, visual, somatosensory, and vestibular evoked potentials. Chapters present hands-on laboratory exercises and clinical case studies. A full-color insert includes 3D images from multi-channel evoked potentials and functional imaging.
Auditory Training
Author: Norman P. ErberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Study of Speech Discrimination Errors of Sensorineural Hearing Impaired Subjects and Subjects with Normal Hearing
Author: Linda J. VargesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hearing
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Auditory Processing Of Temporal Fine Structure: Effects Of Age And Hearing Loss
Author: Brian C J MoorePublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981457967X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The book is concerned with changes in the perception of sound that are associated with hearing loss and aging. Hearing loss affects about 7% of the population in developed countries, and the proportion is increasing as the average age of the population increases. The audiogram is the most widely used diagnostic tool in audiology clinics around the world. The audiogram involves measuring the threshold for detecting sounds of different frequencies. Sometimes the audiogram is the only diagnostic tool that is used. However, hearing problems are not completely characterized by the audiogram. Two individuals with similar audiograms may show very different abilities in the detection and discrimination of sounds at above-threshold levels. Also, a person may have hearing difficulties despite having an audiogram that is within the range conventionally considered as ‘normal’. One factor that may influence the discrimination of sounds, especially the ability to understand speech in background sounds, is sensitivity to temporal fine structure (TFS).This monograph reviews the role played by TFS in masking, pitch perception, speech perception, and spatial hearing, and concludes that cues derived from TFS play an important role in all of these. Evidence is reviewed suggesting that cochlear hearing loss reduces the ability to use TFS cues. Also, the ability to use TFS declines with increasing age even when the audiogram remains normal. This provides a new dimension to the changes in hearing associated with aging, a topic that is currently of great interest in view of the increasing proportion of older people in the population.The study of the role of TFS in auditory processing has been a hot topic in recent years. While there have been many research papers on this topic in specialized journals, there has been no overall review that pulls together the different research findings and presents and interprets them within a coherent framework. This monograph fills this gap.
Speech Discrimination of the Hearing-impaired in Noise: Its Relationship to Other Audiometric Parameters
Author: Mark RossSome Effects of Auditory Training on Speech Discrimination Performance of Hard of Hearing Adults
Author: Daniel Lee BodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description