BACKGROUND audiological function is impaired in people with dementia and poor hearing is known to exaggerate the effects of cognitive deficits. OBJECTIVE the objective of this study was to assess the effects of increasing auditory acuity by providing hearing aids to subjects with dementia who have mild hearing loss. METHOD subjects were screened for hearing impairment and fitted with a hear...

Postmeningitic hearing impairment is an important public health problem with implications for both paediatric and audiology services. A recent population study has shown that, by the age of 3 years, the proportion of children with a known bilateral profound hearing impairment who have an acquired impairment is approximately 20%. Of these acquired impairments, 90% are probably due to bacterial m...

CONTEXT Although the pupil light reflex has been widely used as a clinical diagnostic tool for autonomic nervous system dysfunction, there is no systematic review available to summarize the evidence that the pupil light reflex is a sensitive method to detect parasympathetic dysfunction. Meanwhile, the relationship between parasympathetic functioning and hearing impairment is relatively unknown....

The goals of this study were to find out how the identifiability of Cantonese tones was affected by the degree of hearing impairment and for two stimulus conditions. Twenty-two subjects were assigned to three subject groups: normal hearing (n = 8), moderate-to-severe hearing loss (n = 6), and profound hearing loss (n = 8)A tonal identification task of the segmental unit /fu/ and the So & Varley...

The Saami are the only indigenous population in Europe and their traditional living area is northern Scandinavia. Hearing impairment (HI) among Saami has not been studied before. The objective was to investigate the presence and type of HI among Saami adults, aged 49-77 years (median age 61 years), living in northern Finland. In addition, the presence of self-reported hearing difficulties, diff...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of oral health education is to prevent oral diseases. Literature review indicates that oral hygiene is poor in children with hearing impairment. Different methods have been used to teach oral health to children with hearing impairment. This systematic review was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of different methods of oral health ...

Introduction: Hyperbilirubinemia is a common neonatal problem with toxic effects on the nervous system that can cause hearing impairment. This study was conducted to assess the risk factors for sensorineural hearing loss and other coexisting problems in icteric infants.   Materials and Methods: In a case-control study, 200 term infants with bilirubin levels higher than 20 mg/dl admitted to the...

BACKGROUND To establish the prevalence of hearing deficit in children with Down syndrome (DS) in Hong Kong as measured by brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP). The secondary objective is to examine the agreement between BAEP and clinical questioning in detecting hearing deficit in DS. METHODS Consecutive DS patients attending the Down's Clinic in a regional pediatric referral center we...

A representative sample of 6421 Saudi children were clinically examined and screened for hearing loss. Hearing impairment was detected in 494 children (7.7 per cent). In 326 of the children it was due to chronic secretory and suppurative otitis media (5.07 per cent) and in 168 of them sensorineural hearing loss (2.6 per cent). The study revealed that parental education, low income, and employme...

BACKGROUND Children with bilateral permanent hearing impairment often have impaired language and speech abilities. However, the effects of universal newborn screening for permanent bilateral childhood hearing impairment and the effects of confirmation of hearing impairment by nine months of age on subsequent verbal abilities are uncertain. METHODS We studied 120 children with bilateral perman...