New tests for hearing aid fitting, real-ear measurement and wide-band tympanometry
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Challenges in fitting a hearing aid to a severely collapsed ear canal and mixed hearing loss.
BACKGROUND Collapsed ear canals typically occur when an outside force, such as a headset for audiometric testing, is present. However, when a collapsed ear canal occurs without external pressure, this creates a challenge not only for performing audiometric testing but also for coupling a hearing aid to the ear canal. PURPOSE This case report highlights the challenges associated with fitting a...
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A total of 190 individuals participated in a clinical visit during the Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) 418-A Long Term Follow-Up Study. Of this cohort, 158 participants were considered current hearing aid users, and 32 were non-hearing aid users. Of the current hearing aid users, 81 were still using their original 418 study devices, and 77 had acquired new hearing aids. Coupler and real ear m...
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The Guidelines for Hearing Aid Fitting for Adults were developed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Ad Hoc Committee on Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting. Members of the committee are Michael Valente, chair; Ruth Bentler; Holly S. Kaplan, ex officio; Richard Seewald; Timothy Trine; Dennis Van Vliet; and Lawrence W. Higdon, Vice President for Professional Practices in Aud...
متن کاملReal-ear measurement of hearing threshold and loudness.
For at least the past sixty years, the predominant type of electronic circuit present in hearing aids has been a single-channel amplifier designed to be linear over most of its operating range with its maximum output limited via peak clipping (Berger, 1984). Although this is presently still the case (Hawkins and Naidoo, 1993), it is apparent that hearing aids designed to be nonlinear over most ...
متن کاملPersonal style and hearing aid fitting.
Why do I have to drag information out of some patients? Why is another patient so talkative? Why didn't this patient like the XYZ 2002 digital hearing aid when she had the same degree, type, and configuration of hearing impairment as the patient I successfully fit last month? Could the answer be as basic as a difference in personality?
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عنوان ژورنال: AUDIOLOGY JAPAN
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0303-8106,1883-7301
DOI: 10.4295/audiology.63.174