background: reading is known as one of the most important learning tools. research results consistently have shown that even a mild hearing impairment could affect the reading skills. due to the reported differences in reading comprehension skills between hearing impaired students and their normal hearing peers, this research was conducted to compare the differences between the two groups. the ...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

Speech cannot be understood if it cannot be heard. Therefore, audibility is undoubtedly a major goal of amplification for children and adults with hearing loss. In restoring audibility, it is often assumed that the listener can extract speech cues over the entire range of speech frequencies. This assumption is true for a person with mild to moderate hearing losses, but is not true when hearing ...

The amplitude modulation-following response (AMFR), an auditory evoked potential elicited by continuous amplitude-modulated tones, can be recorded for carrier frequencies across the audiometric range. AMFR thresholds (based on the amplitude spectra of the responses) have been found to closely follow behavioral thresholds in six normal-hearing and four hearing-impaired adults. In the current wor...

OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to explore the cost-utility of pediatric cochlear implantation, incorporating savings associated with education into the analysis. METHODS The costs of pediatric cochlear implantation were based on the full costs levied to purchasers, inclusive of complications and maintenance, by a large pediatric cochlear implant program in the United Kingdom. ...

introduction: human hands are efficient tools to do fine works, game, and routine activities, which are of greater consideration in students with special needs, including hearing-impaired students. materials and methods: this descriptive-analytical study was performed by cross-sectional method on 32 hearing-impaired students with age average of 8.43 years old in hamedan in the academic years 20...

objectives: language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. it seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. the purpose of this study is to determine ...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the reliability, accuracy, and time efficiency of automated hearing assessment using a computer-based telemedicine-compliant audiometer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty normal-hearing subjects and eight hearing-impaired subjects were tested with pure-tone air conduction audiometry (125-8,000 Hz) in a manual and automated configuration in a counterbalanced manner...

A 48-item questionnaire was administered to 100 older adults to determine their expectations regarding hearing aid use. The sample consisted of volunteers from a variety of senior citizen organizations and ranged in age from 55 to 92 years. Only individuals who reported no prior hearing aid usage were included in the sample. Expectations for the following factors were considered: cosmetics, aco...

communication, cognition, language, and speech are interrelated and develop together. it should come as no surprise to us that the key to intervention with deaf children is to establish, as early as possible, a functional communication system for the child and the parents. early intervention programs need to be multidisciplinary, technologically sound and most important, it should take cognizan...