Severe-to-profound hearing impairment: demographic data, gender differences and benefits of audiological rehabilitation

Lived Experience of the Hearing Adolescents of Parents with Severe and Profound Hearing Impairment: A Qualitative Study with a Phenomenological Approach

Objective: Awareness of the life experiences of hearing adolescents of parents with hearing impairment is essential to assess their living conditions and provide appropriate services and is recognized as a humanitarian activity. In different countries, various educational and rehabilitation services and programs are provided to hearing people with deaf families. It is important that training pr...

Importance of “Process Evaluation” in Audiological Rehabilitation: Examples from Studies on Hearing Impairment

The main focus of this paper is to discuss the importance of "evaluating the process of change" (i.e., process evaluation) in people with disability by studying their lived experiences. Detailed discussion is made about "why and how to investigate the process of change in people with disability?" and some specific examples are provided from studies on patient journey of persons with hearing imp...

comparison of reading comprehension skill of students with severe to profound hearing impairment from second up to fifth grade of exceptional schools with normal hearing students

background: reading is known as one of the most important learning tools. research results consistently have shown that even a mild hearing impairment could affect the reading skills. due to the reported differences in reading comprehension skills between hearing impaired students and their normal hearing peers, this research was conducted to compare the differences between the two groups. the ...

Aural Habilitation in Severe to Profound Hearing Impaired Children Below 2 years

Outcomes of Severe to Profound Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

OBJECTIVES While a severe to profound sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) may cause serious disability in verbal communication, there have been little studies focusing on this high degree SSNHL. The present study was aimed to investigate the characteristics of hearing recovery in a high degree SSNHL (>70 dB). METHODS Three hundred and two SSNHL patients were enrolled. For a long-term fo...