Modeling Lost to Intervention in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention: A Modified eDelphi Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a functional model of the drivers behind why families may decline early intervention services following the identification of a child as D/deaf or hard of hearing.

Method: This model was developed using a modified eDelphi method. Invited experts ( = 155) were provided proposed models of why families may decline early intervention services in accordance with current literature.

Disposable Hearing Aid Battery Management: Survey Assessment of Providers and Qualitative Interviews of Patients.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to better understand the behaviors that hearing aid users engage in to manage batteries. Method Two arms of research, a survey of audiologists ( = 110) and qualitative interviews with adult hearing aid users ( = 13), were conducted. Surveys were distributed and collected both via paper and online methods.

The influence of receiver size on magnitude of acoustic and perceived measures of occlusion.

Purpose: The current study examined measured and perceived occlusion for a receiver-in-the-canal (RIC) hearing aid with different-sized receivers. The relationship between these measures and ear canal volume was also investigated.

Method: Thirty adult participants were fitted with an RIC hearing aid and tested with 5 receiver size conditions.

The impact of sudden hearing loss secondary to heroin overdose on fitting outcomes.

Purpose: There are few cases in the literature that report the auditory effects of heroin overdose. Follow-up and rehabilitation in these cases are unreported. In the case reported here, a 29-year-old woman presented with sudden bilateral sensorineural hearing loss subsequent to reported heroin overdose.

The impact of health literacy on patient understanding of counseling and education materials.

Low health literacy is reported to have negative consequences on patient understanding of health-related information; however, there is a dearth of research regarding health literacy in an audiology-specific context. This study examines the grade level of language used in verbal and written communication samples during routine hearing aid orientation appointments. Patient counseling sessions were videotaped and transcribed; hearing aid instruction guides used during counseling sessions were also transcribed.

Normative data for the Attitudes towards Loss of Hearing Questionnaire.

Investigations have shown that patient attitudes toward hearing loss and hearing aids impact self-reported handicap and disability, hearing aid benefit, and hearing aid use. The Attitudes towards Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ) was developed by Saunders and Cienkowski (1996) to examine some of the psychosocial factors underlying the use and acquisition of hearing aids. Here we report data from a new version of questionnaire (ALHQ v2.

Auditory-visual speech perception in an adult with aphasia.

The evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception is not typically undertaken in the assessment of aphasia; however, treatment approaches utilise bimodal presentations. Research demonstrates that auditory and visual information are integrated for speech perception. The strongest evidence of this cross-modal integration is the McGurk effect.

Auditory-visual speech perception and aging.

Objective: This experiment was designed to assess the integration of auditory and visual information for speech perception in older adults. The integration of place and voicing information was assessed across modalities using the McGurk effect. The following questions were addressed: 1) Are older adults as successful as younger adults at integrating auditory and visual information for speech perception? 2) Is successful integration of this information related to lipreading performance?

Design: The performance of three groups of participants was compared: young adults with normal hearing and vision, older adults with normal to near-normal hearing and vision, and young controls, whose hearing thresholds were shifted with noise to match the older adults.

A test to measure subjective and objective speech intelligibility.

Measurement of hearing aid outcome is particularly difficult because there are numerous dimensions to consider (e.g., performance, satisfaction, benefit).