The digit triplet test for school-age hearing screening: comparing languages, school grades and scoring methods in a large sample.

Objective: To investigate the reliability of a bilingual school-age hearing screening in four school grades based on the Digit Triplet Test (DTT) in two languages and to investigate three calculation methods for referral values in their ability to detect hearing losses and avoid false-positive results.

Design And Study Sample: 3255 children, aged between 10 and 17 years old, were tested during a systematic hearing screening program in a bilingual, French-German area in Belgium. French speaking children were tested with a French DTT, German children were tested with a German DTT.

Response strength and latencies of auditory steady-state responses from age six.

Objective: Auditory-steady state responses (ASSRs) to stimuli modulated by different frequencies may differ between children and adults. These differences in response characteristics or latency may reflect developmental changes. This study investigates age-related differences in response strength, latencies, and hemispheric laterality indices of ASSRs for different modulation frequencies.

Perception of voice cues and speech-in-speech by children with prelingual single-sided deafness and a cochlear implant.

Voice cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract length (VTL), help listeners identify the speaker's gender, perceive the linguistic and emotional prosody, and segregate competing talkers. Postlingually implanted adult cochlear implant (CI) users seem to have difficulty in perceiving and making use of voice cues, especially of VTL. Early implanted child CI users, in contrast, perceive and make use of both voice cues better than CI adults, and in patterns similar to their peers with normal hearing (NH).

Speech-Identification During Standing as a Multitasking Challenge for Young, Middle-Aged and Older Adults.

While listening, we commonly participate in simultaneous activities. For instance, at receptions people often stand while engaging in conversation. It is known that listening and postural control are associated with each other.

Duration of cochlear implant use in children with prelingual single-sided deafness is a predictor of word perception in the CI ear.

As part of a longitudinal study regarding the benefit of early cochlear implantation for children with single-sided deafness, the current work explored the children's daily device use, potential barriers to full-time device use, and the children's ability to understand speech with the cochlear implant (CI). Data were collected from 20 children with prelingual SSD who received a CI before the age of 2.5 years, from the initial activation of the sound processor until the children were 4.