A sample of 209 adults ranging from 20 to 79 years of age were studied to measure speech communication profiles as a function of age in persons who did not identify themselves as hearing impaired. The study was conducted in order to evaluate age-related speech percepton abilities and ccammmication profiles in a population who do not present for hearing assessment and who are not included in cen...

BACKGROUND Hearing impairment (HI) in the elderly may be a risk factor for psychosis, but associations between HI and psychotic disorder or psychotic experiences have been reported more consistently in younger than in older populations. The aims of this study were to replicate the positive association between hearing impairment and psychotic experiences and to clarify any differences between gr...

Introduction Hearing loss can compromise the language, learning process, and socialization of students. Objective Study the audiometric findings among Curitiba and Metropolitan Area students. Methods Analysis of data collected at the hearing health service of Paraná State special education and inclusion department. Results The sample consisted of 646 students, children and teenagers of both gen...

UNLABELLED Mutations in the connexin 26 gene seem to be extremely common in non-syndromic hereditary deafness genesis, especially the 35delG, but there are still only a few studies that describe the audiometric characteristics of patients with these mutations. AIM to analyze the audiometric characteristics of patients with mutations in the connexin 26 gene in order to outline genotype-phenoty...

Since its inception, Audiology has been concerned with hearing aid selection and the interaction of the hearing impaired person and amplification . The classic work of Watson and Knudsen (1) and Lybarger (2) suggests a long clinical interest in prescribing parameters for hearing aids according to audiometric measurements . In the early days, prescriptive procedures were neglected due to technol...

In speech audiometric testing, hearing performance is typically measured by calculating the number of correct repetitions of a speech stimulus. We investigate to what extent the repetition accuracy of Dutch speech stimuli presented against a background noise is influenced by nonauditory processes. We show that variation in verbal repetition accuracy is partially explained by morpholexical and s...