INTRODUCTION Tympanometry is currently the most frequently used tool for assessing the status of the middle ear, commonly assessed using a single 226Hz tone. However, the use of the Acoustic Immittance Measures with a wideband stimulus is a promising high-resolution evaluation, especially in individuals known to have middle ear alterations, such as Down syndrome patients. OBJECTIVE The aim of...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of sub-clinical alterations on the amplitudes and slopes of the DPOAE input-output responses from subjects with previous history of middle ear dysfunction. MATERIAL/METHODS The study included 15 subjects with and 15 subjects without a history of otitis media in the last 10 years. All participants were assessed with acoustic immit...

The present study aimed to examine the impact of first time users of amplification devices by participants having presbycusis on tinnitus. Pure tone Audiometry along with immittance audiometry and speech Audiometry was carried out. The Tinnitus handicap inventory (THI) questionnaire, developed by Newman et al. (1996), was administered in all participants for pre and post hearing aid fitting con...

BACKGROUND To counter the global increase in infection-related deaths, infection control has recently developed into an active area of research. Many diseases can be prevented by infection control. In the confines of the audiology clinic, cross-contamination by micro-organisms associated with opportunistic infections remains a real concern. OBJECTIVE The primary aim of the study was to ascert...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder of various origins that occurs when the pancreas fails to produce insulin in sufficient quantities or when the organism fails to respond to this hormone in an efficient manner. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the speech recognition in subjects with type I diabetes mellitus (DMI) in quiet and in competitive noise. METHODS It was a des...

INTRODUCTION Audiology students should possess clinical competence and skills. To achieve this, their clinical skills must be properly assessed. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a standard and fair examination of clinical competence. The goal of this study is to devise a checklist of OSCE examination criteria and study their validity and reliability for assessing the clin...

Voice conversion technologies transform individual characteristics of speech patterns while preserving the original content, and can be widely used in speech processing. Considering limited system resources, in particular, of embedded concatenative speech synthesis, voice conversion may reduce the memory consumption of the acoustic database. Voice conversion enables the intra-gender or cross-ge...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate children born to HIV-infected mothers and to determine whether such children present auditory disorders or poor acquisition of the ability to localize sound. The population studied included 143 children (82 males and 61 females), ranging in age from one month to 30 months. The children were divided into three groups according to the classificat...

Background Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome is a syndrome which presents with hearing loss and visual and keratinization disorders. In such patients, hearing aids cannot be effectively used in the rehabilitation of hearing loss because of the frequent blockage of the external ear canal with epithelial debris and due to dry and tense skin of the external ear canal. Moreover, severe o...

UNLABELLED Hearing is one of the main ways with which one person can contact the external world; it plays a key role in their integration with society. AIM The objective of this study was to analyze the results of the hearing, medical and genetic evaluation of high-risk infants who failed the newborn hearing screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinical and experimental study. We assessed thirt...