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Sports habits of hearing impaired people in the Northern Great Plain region of Hungary [PDF]

open access: yesGeoSport for Society, 2023
Although hearing impaired people represent a significant group of handicapped people, only a few studies examine their physical activities. This study was performed in the Spring of 2019 in Debrecen, Hungary by recruiting 86 hearing impaired people. Here
Ildikó BALATONI   +4 more
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Genomics and Hearing Impairment [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Research, 1999
Hearing impairment is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are >400 disorders in which hearing impairment is a characteristic of the syndrome, and family studies demonstrate that there are at least 30 autosomal loci for nonsyndromic hearing impairment.
Bronya J.B. Keats, Charles I. Berlin
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Cochlear implant: Speech and language development in deaf and hard of hearing children following implantation [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011
Bacground/Aim. Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Niš) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre-
Ostojić Sanja   +3 more
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Level discrimination of speech sounds by hearing-impaired individuals with and without hearing amplification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objectives: The current study was designed to see how hearing-impaired individuals judge level differences between speech sounds with and without hearing amplification.
Akeroyd, Michael A., Whitmer, William M.
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Speech discrimination abilities of hearing impaired children using conventional hearing aids and radio neckloop at different signal-to-noise ratios

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1985
Speech discrimination scores of 20 hearing impaired children with a mean age of 14 years were examined when using their own conventional hearing aids on the microphone setting and the radio neck loop with and without the use of the environment microphone
Asoka Moodley
doaj   +1 more source

Acoustic reflex measurements and the loudness function in sensorineural hearing loss

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1980
The suprathreshold acoustic reflex responses of forty two ears affected by sensorineural hearing loss of cochlear origin and fifty-eight ears demonstrating normal hearing, were recorded by means of an electro-acoustic impedance meter and attached X-Y ...
Sheila Uliel
doaj   +1 more source

Hearing Impairment and Retirement [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2014
Background:Many factors influence the decision to retire including age, insurance, and pension availability along with physical and mental health. Hearing impairment may be one such factor.Purpose:The purpose of this study was to compare the 15 yr retirement rate among subjects with and without hearing impairment.Research Design:Prospective ...
Dayna S. Dalton   +5 more
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Objective measurement of prosodic features of speech of hearing-impaired Egyptian children with cochlear implants

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2023
Background Prosody is an important acoustic and linguistic component of speech that greatly contributes to speech intelligibility. Speech of hearing-impaired children shows various deviations from their normal-hearing counterparts due to complex ...
Engy Samy Elhakeem   +2 more
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A Study of Rate of Speech and Intelligibility of Speech in Hearing impaired Pupils of Baghcheban School of Zahedan, Iran

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2013
Hearing loss results in disruption of coordination in muscles and structures engaged in speech timing tasks and consequently acquisition of speech sounds is affected.
Mahla SAEDI   +2 more
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