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Evaluation of Hearing Handicap

The American Academy of Otolaryngology and American Council of Otolaryngology (AAOACO) define hearing handicap as a disability to understand sentences under everyday vocal and listening conditions, and describe procedures for its estimation from pure-tone threshold hearing levels . Research now reveals that the AAO-ACO procedures underestimate measured hearing handicap by the equivalent of aver...

Combating Social Handicap

Report on a group of parents with handicapped children who came together to organise activities to overcome their childrens' lack of social education.

Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI).

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Editorial: Hearing Handicap

T his issue of JAAA provides a unique opportunity to compare two quite different approaches to the study of auditory handicap . It is usually assumed that handicap is overcome in proportion to improvement in speech understanding. The problem has been how to measure speech understanding in the hearing impaired . What kinds of speech materials should be used? How should they be presented? And wha...