The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the following acoustic-immittance protocols and their constituent measures for detection of middle-ear effusion in children: (a) tympanometric width; (b) absent ipsilateral acoustic reflex; (c) ASHA guidelines; (d) tympanometric peak pressure; and (e) static-acoustic middle-ear admittance. The middle-ear sample...

Asha Vellaikal y;z y Information Sciences Laboratory Hughes Research Laboratories 3011 Malibu Canyon Road Malibu, CA 90265-4799 e-mail: [email protected] C.-C. Jay Kuo z z Integrated Media Systems Center Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564 e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Processing images directly in the compressed dom...

Results of a national survey on sound field usage and sound field calibration are presented. Respondents to the survey were 418 ASHA certified audiologists, who answered questions on demographic variables, sound field testing conditions, and sound field calibration procedures. Demographic characteristics of the respondents indicate that they were representative of ASHA certified audiologists. E...

Post hoc analyses suggest that memantine treatment may provide communication-related benefits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this 12-week, international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of memantine (10 mg bid), the functional communication abilities of patients with AD (MMSE range: 10-19) were assessed using the Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory (F...

Introduction The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in 2005. One of the key components of the NRHM is the identification and training of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) for each village in the country. They have undergone several rounds of training and received additional training like 10-day training on child survival in Uttar Pradesh state. Despite these training prog...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: JISH: Jeddah Institute for Speech and Hearing; ASHA: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; OSMSE-R: Oral-Speech-Mechanism-Screening-ExaminationRevised; dB: Decible; HL: Hearing Level; Hz: Hertz; COHC: Certified Occupational Hearing Conservationist; AAA: American Academy of Audiology; AA: African American; UN: United Nations; W...

Asha R Iyengar1, Seema Patil2, R Shriyanka3, B V Subash2 1Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, D A P M RV Dental College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, D A P M RV Dental College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital...

The Guidelines for Hearing Aid Fitting for Adults were developed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Ad Hoc Committee on Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting. Members of the committee are Michael Valente, chair; Ruth Bentler; Holly S. Kaplan, ex officio; Richard Seewald; Timothy Trine; Dennis Van Vliet; and Lawrence W. Higdon, Vice President for Professional Practices in Aud...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the functional characteristics of swallowing and to analyze the parameters of dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). METHODS The medical records of 32 patients with head and neck cancer who were referred for a videofluoroscopic swallowing study from January 2012 to May 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. The patients were al...