Publications by authors named "A M Tharpe"
Objectives: Children with unilateral hearing loss experience difficulties in classroom listening situations. There are a limited number of validated questionnaires available for monitoring listening development and quantifying the challenges school-aged children with unilateral hearing loss experience. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a survey that describes the classroom listening challenges reported by children with unilateral hearing loss with and without the use of personal hearing devices (air conduction hearing aid, bone conduction hearing aid, cochlear implant, contralateral routing of signals system).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: School-age children with unilateral hearing loss are at an increased risk of exhibiting academic difficulties. Yet, approximately half of children with unilateral hearing loss will not require additional support. There is a dearth of information to assist in determining which of these children will express academic deficits and which will not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: A recent study has provided empirical support for the use of remote microphone (RM) systems to improve listening-in-noise performance of autistic youth. It has been proposed that RM system effects might be achieved by boosting engagement in this population. The present study used behavioral coding to test this hypothesis in autistic and nonautistic youth listening in an ecologically valid, noisy environment.
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- The study aimed to investigate how limited English proficiency affects the daily hearing aid usage in children with hearing loss.
- It found that children from families requiring an interpreter for appointments wore their hearing aids significantly less (1.3 hours) compared to those whose families spoke English (5.2 hours).
- This suggests that language barriers between families and clinicians may contribute to less effective hearing aid usage, highlighting the need for improved communication strategies to ensure all families receive accessible hearing-related information.
Objectives: This study examined the neural mechanisms by which remote microphone (RM) systems might lead to improved behavioral performance on listening-in-noise tasks in autistic and non-autistic youth.
Design: Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) were recorded in autistic (n = 25) and non-autistic (n = 22) youth who were matched at the group level on chronological age ( M = 14.21 ± 3.