Speech recognition and real-ear-measured amplification in hearing-aid users with various grades of hearing loss.

Objective: The relationship between aided speech recognition and hearing-aid (HA) amplification was investigated in a retrospective study.

Design And Study Sample: Pure-tone thresholds, aided and unaided speech recognition and real-ear measurements of 635 ears in 374 HA users were reviewed. Ears were classified according to pure-tone average (PTA) and real-ear aided response (REAR) in relation to the targets of NAL-NL2 and DSL v5.

[Effectiveness of hearing aid provision for severe hearing loss].

Background And Objective: In practice, the unilateral monosyllabic speech recognition score with hearing aid (WRS(HA)) is often below the maximum word recognition score with headphones (WRS), in particular for subjects with severe hearing loss. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency factor Q of hearing aid provision, the ratio WRS(HA)/WRS, in patients with severe to profound hearing loss.

Materials And Methods: Data from real-ear measurements (REM), pure tone and speech audiogram, and speech recognition with and without hearing aid of 93 ears in 64 patients were examined.

Comparison of bimodal benefit for the use of DSL v5.0 and NAL-NL2 in cochlear implant listeners.

For a group of bimodal subjects with moderate to severe hearing loss contralateral to the cochlear implant (CI), the bimodal benefit of the hearing aid (HA) gain prescriptions DSL v5.0, NAL-NL2 and the recipients' own gain setting were assessed. Speech perception in quiet and in noise as well as self-reported ratings of benefit were determined for all three gain-settings.

Bimodal benefit for cochlear implant listeners with different grades of hearing loss in the opposite ear.

Objective: To determine speech perception in quiet and noise of adult cochlear implant listeners retaining a hearing aid contralaterally. Second, to investigate the influence of contralateral hearing thresholds and speech perception on bimodal hearing.

Patients And Methods: Sentence recognition with hearing aid alone, cochlear implant alone and bimodally at 6 months after cochlear implantation were assessed in 148 postlingually deafened adults.

Speech Perception of Elderly Cochlear Implant Users Under Different Noise Conditions.

Objective: The primary objective of this study was the comparison of younger and older (>75 yr) CI recipients' performance for speech perception in quiet and in competing continuous and fluctuating noise.

Study Design: Prospective, comparative clinical study.

Setting: University hospital.