Aim-The present study is to find out an association of tinnitus with sensorineural hearing loss. Tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss of a unknown etiology. Material and Methods50 cases of tinnitus were taken who on examination have normal tympanic membrane and normal external and middle ear. Audiogram was done in these cases and tinnitus was matched. This subset of patients was mainl...

Underlying the recently developed notions of applied ELT and life syllabus is the idea that language classes should give precedence to learners’ life qualities, for instance emotional intelligence (EI), over and above their language skills. By so doing, ELT is ascribed an autonomous status and ELT classes can lavish their full potentials to the learners. With that in mind, this study aimed to d...

Background: The birth of a child with a hearing disability is a stressful event in the family. Since consanguineous marriages are associated with the incidence of congenital hearing loss, it is expected that such parents will experience greater psychological problems. Objective: The current study investigated and compared anxiety, depression, and stress i...

Introduction: Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-s...

background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We investigated usage of and satisfaction with hearing aid devices in everyday life among older adults with hearing loss. Our research further advances the role of hearing contexts for hearing aid use and satisfaction. A central assumption was that hearing aid owners adapt the usage of the hearing aid devices to contextual demands of hearing depending on their personal ...

We argue that there is special value in viewing any given map as a unique collection of patterns. Symbolisation acts to give emphasis to specific qualities among those patterns. The paper builds on the idea of being able to place any given pattern within a multi dimensional ‘pattern space’ (borrowing from Edelman’s ideas on shape space). The paper also borrows from the ideas of Zacks and Tversk...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the Active Communication Education (ACE) program for older people with hearing impairment and to investigate factors that influence response to the program. The ACE is a group program that runs for 2 hr per week for 5 wk. DESIGN In this double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial, 178 older people with, on average, mild to moderate hearing impairmen...

introduction: hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. this research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   materials and methods: this descriptive-analytic cross-s...