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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
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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
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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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The association of hearing impairment and its severity with physical and mental health among Chinese middle-aged and older adults

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background Hearing impairment is a common chronic condition which can be closely related to people’s health. However, current studies on this topic are quite limited in developing countries, and few with standardized audiometric measurement and multiple ...
Xin Ye, Dawei Zhu, Siyuan Chen, Ping He
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Attitude of university students towards the leisure noise induced tinnitus and hearing loss

open access: yesJournal Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences, 2021
Background Structures that process sound and empower the brain to understand are called ears. This is the procedure in which analysis of sound signal is done through intensity and frequency.
Shumaila Malik   +3 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 comparison of oral hygiene status and dental caries experience among institutionalized visually impaired and hearing impaired children of age between 7 and 17 years in central India

open access: yesJournal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2013
Aim: The aim of this study is to compare the oral hygiene status and dental caries experience among institutionalized visually impaired and hearing impaired children of age between 7 and 17 years in Bhopal city of Madhya Pradesh located in Central India.
Venugopal K Reddy   +4 more
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Hearing-impaired Children and Adults in Need of Cochlear Implant: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021
Introduction: Hearing is essential to learn language and speech and to develop cognitive skills. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), world-wide approximately 350 million people have hearing disorder.
Malik MD Islahuddin   +2 more
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Developing Online Learning Applications for People with Hearing Impairment

open access: yesJOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2021
To make a communication with a hearing-impaired person, who is someone who has a problem with hearing ability, a special form of communication using sign language is required in order to make the purpose of the conversation convey properly. It is clearly
Hidra Amnur   +3 more
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The Impact of Tilburg Frailty on Poststroke Fatigue in First‐Ever Stroke Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study With Unified Measurement Tools and Improved Statistics

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Poststroke fatigue (PSF) and frailty share substantial overlap in their manifestations, yet previous research has yielded conflicting results due to the use of heterogeneous frailty assessment tools. Objective To evaluate the independent impact of frailty on PSF using a unified measurement system (Tilburg Frailty Indicator, TFI ...
Chuan‐Bang Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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