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Selecting Appropriate Tests to Assess the Benefits of Bilateral Amplification With Hearing Aids

Trends in Hearing, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of bilateral hearing aids (HA) in subjects with mild and moderate-to-severe hearing loss. This study was designed as a within-subject feasibility study.
Jelmer van Schoonhoven, Michael Schulte, Monique Boymans, Kirsten C. Wagener, Wouter A. Dreschler, Birger Kollmeier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urgensi kompetensi komunikasi pustakawan dalam memberikan layanan kepada pemustaka [PDF]

, 2011
Communication competence is critical in the development of libraries, especially in improving its service. It is therefore necessary to step up communication competencies for all library staff.
Batubara, Abdul Karim
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective Listening Effort and Electrodermal Activity in Listening Situations with Reverberation and Noise

Trends in Hearing, 2016
Disturbing factors like reverberation or ambient noise can impair speech recognition and raise the listening effort needed for successful communication in daily life. Situations with high listening effort are thought to result in increased stress for the
Inga Holube, Kristina Haeder, Christina Imbery, Reinhard Weber   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study protocol for the validation of a new patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) of listening effort in cochlear implantation: the Listening Effort Questionnaire-Cochlear Implant (LEQ-CI)

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Listening effort may be defined as the cognitive resources needed to understand an auditory message. A sustained requirement for listening effort is known to have a negative impact on individuals’ sense of social connectedness, well-being ...
Frances Rapport, Alan Watkins, Sarah E Hughes, Isabelle Boisvert, Catherine M McMahon, Hayley A Hutchings   +5 more
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Innovation Lab For Museums: Case Studies in Innovation and Adaptive Capacity [PDF]

, 2015
This case study on Latino New South follows the journey and partnerships of three cultural institutions -- the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC), the Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, GA), and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham,
Jamie Gamble
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experience and Consciousness: Enhancing the Notion of Musical Understanding [PDF]

, 2009
Disagreeing with Jerrold Levinson's claim that being conscious of broad-span musical form is not essential to understanding music, I will argue that our awareness of musical architecture is significant to achieve comprehension.
Renero, Adriana
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Auditory listening effort and reaction time: a comparative study between single sided deaf cochlear implant users and normal hearing controls

Frontiers in Audiology and Otology
IntroductionCochlear implant (CI) provision has been shown to be the only hearing rehabilitation option that can improve speech perception in noise and sound localization in SSD listeners.
Marcus Windsor Rao Voola, Dayse Tavora-Vieira, Dayse Tavora-Vieira, Dayse Tavora-Vieira, Andre Wedekind, Andre Wedekind, Caris Bogdanov, Caris Bogdanov, Aanand Acharya, Aanand Acharya   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source