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Speech recognition under masking: Age, hearing, and machine learning classification

open access: yesActa Psychologica
In this study, we seek to empirically evaluate whether maskers can be categorically grouped into energetic and informational using machine learning classification techniques.
Victoria Stenbäck   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: South African higher education policy frameworks highlight renewed interest in equity, access and participation imperatives for students with disabilities (SWDs).
Roshanthni Subrayen, Rubby Dhunpath
doaj   +1 more source

Quality here, there and everywhere: the application of a multi-dimensional learning tool to learning disability health services [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The following paper examines the applicability of Maxwell’s (1984) Multi-dimensional Quality Evaluation model to community learning disability health services.
McKenzie, Karen   +3 more
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Mental health and learning disability nursing students' perceptions of the usefulness of the objective structured clinical examination to assess their competence in medicine administration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of this study was to evaluate mental health and learning disability nursing students’ perceptions of the usefulness of the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in assessing their administration of medicine competence.
Hemingway, Steve   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Validation of the Swedish Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (Screening Version) and Evaluation of Its Effect in Hearing Aid Rehabilitation

open access: yesTrends in Hearing, 2016
Self-reports of subjective hearing difficulties by people with hearing loss may be a useful complement to audiometry in hearing aid rehabilitation. To be useful, such self-reports need to be reliable.
Marie Öberg
doaj   +1 more source

Cognitive Processing Speed, Working Memory, and the Intelligibility of Hearing Aid-Processed Speech in Persons with Hearing Impairment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Previous studies have demonstrated that successful listening with advanced signal processing in digital hearing aids is associated with individual cognitive capacity, particularly working memory capacity (WMC).
Wycliffe Kabaywe Yumba   +1 more
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Testing listening effort for speech comprehension using the individuals’ cognitive spare capacity

open access: yesAudiology Research, 2011
Most hearing aid fittings today are almost solely based on the patient’s audiogram. Although the loss of gain in the cochlea is important, for a more optimal fitting, more individual parameters of the patient’s cochlear loss together with the patient's ...
N. Rönnberg, S. Stenfelt, M. Rudner
doaj   +1 more source

Attracting psychologists to learning disability services: starting with assistants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Assistants employed in a split support worker/psychology assistant post rated the experience of working with people with a learning disability positively and as an opportunity to increase knowledge of clinical psychology theory and its direct application
MacDonald, Kirsty   +2 more
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Route learning and shortcut performance in adults with intellectual disability: a study with virtual environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The ability to learn routes though a virtual environment (VE) and to make a novel shortcut between two locations was assessed in 18 adults with intellectual disability and 18 adults without intellectual disability matched on chronological age ...
Courbois, Yannick   +4 more
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Supporting Families through Early Intervention

open access: yesIranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2003
Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home ...
Roy McConkey
doaj  

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