T his issue of JAAA provides a unique opportunity to compare two quite different approaches to the study of auditory handicap . It is usually assumed that handicap is overcome in proportion to improvement in speech understanding. The problem has been how to measure speech understanding in the hearing impaired . What kinds of speech materials should be used? How should they be presented? And wha...

We give an ⌈ 6 ⌉-cell handicap strategy for the game of Hex on an n×n board: the first player is guaranteed victory if she is allowed to colour ⌈ 6 ⌉ cells on her first move. Our strategy exploits a new kind of inferior Hex cell.

CHRONiC handicap is a major challenge to present*day paediatrics in Britain. The change in the paittern of child disease in western countries is well known-the decline in mortality of both infants and children: the virtuall eradication of serious acute infections such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and poliomyelitis: the diminishing incidence of acute rheumatism: and the control of ithe common inf...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to explore the general coping style of female teachers with a relatively low voice handicap compared with teachers with a relatively high voice handicap. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 450 teachers using the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) and the Utrecht Coping List (UCL). A group of 400 subjects quasi-randomly se...

introduction: natural process of aging is associated with biological events which alter the structure and function of different parts of the body. larynx also undergoes age-related anatomical and physiological changes during adulthood.. according to anatomical and physiological changes of larynx, acoustic and perceptual characteristics of voice are modified as a result of age-related sequential...

Interobserver agreement for the assessment of handicap in stroke patients was investigated in a group of 10 senior neurologists and 24 residents from two centers. One hundred patients were separately interviewed by two physicians in different combinations. The degree of handicap was recorded by each observer on the modified Ran kin scale, which has six grades (0-5). The agreement rates were cor...