background: auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. so, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about the children with hearing loss such as determining the effectiveness of the current rehabilitation programs and/or devices. the auditory behavior in everyday life (abel) questionnaire is a valid and reliable assess...

This study investigated the effect of using visual aids, semantic elaboration, and visual aids plus semantic elaboration on the Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary learning. To conduct the study, the researchers assigned 49 elementary learners to three homogeneous groups according to their proficiency level. Then, a pre-test of Paribakht and Wesche's Vocabulary Knowledge Scale was given to each gr...

Lack of auditory feedback for hearing impaired children leads eventually to a speaking disability in them. Hence, hearing impaired children are unable to speak, in spite of having proper speech production mechanism. Even if the hearing impaired child tries to speak by visualizing lip movements, his articulation, accuracy, stress and intonation patterns are affected, since vowels & consonants wi...

This quantitative research which is descriptive and correlation in nature aims to examine the relationship of learning styles results student academic achievement. The population this study were students SMP X Airmadidi. sampling technique used convenience method. number respondents 93 students. instruments a questionnaire adapted from Maramis (2012) average scores listed report cards for Semes...

objectives: the aim of this research is designing a computerized program, in game format, for working memory training in mild intellectual disabled children. methods: 24 students participated as test and control groups. the auditory and visual-spatial wm were assessed by primary test, which included computerized wechsler numerical forward and backward sub- tests, and secondary tests, which cont...

We examined the peripheral auditory system and the auditory brainstem pathway of children with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). One hundred and one children, 51 with AIDS diagnosis and 50 normal children were evaluated. Audiological assessment included immittance measures, pure tone and speech audiometry and auditory brainstem response (ABR). The children with AIDS more frequently had...

background and aim : the hearing loss and acoustic feedback signal in the binaural hearing aids may annoy users, make speech reorganization difficult, and affect the sound quality. this paper presents a new method for acoustic feedback suppression in binaural hearing aids, based on the combination of binaural information and blind source separation. this method can enhance sound from the specif...