Dual-Task Interference in the Assessment of Listening Effort Before and After Cochlear Implantation in Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the magnitude and direction of dual-task interference in a listening effort dual-task paradigm in individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss before and in the short- and long-term after cochlear implantation.

Design: The study sample consisted of 26 adult candidates for cochlear implantation with severe-to-profound hearing loss. The dual-task paradigm consisted of a primary speech understanding task, conducted in a quiet condition, and a favorable and unfavorable noise condition on the one hand and a secondary visual memory task on the other hand.

Dual-Task Interference in the Assessment of Listening Effort: Results of Normal-Hearing Adults, Cochlear Implant Users, and Hearing Aid Users.

Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to assess dual-task interference (i.e., changes between the dual-task and baseline condition) in a listening effort dual-task paradigm in normal-hearing (NH) adults, hearing aid (HA) users, and cochlear implant (CI) users.

Auditory, Visual, and Cognitive Abilities in Normal-Hearing Adults, Hearing Aid Users, and Cochlear Implant Users.

Objectives: Speech understanding is considered a bimodal and bidirectional process, whereby visual information (i.e., speechreading) and also cognitive functions (i.

Effect of a Group-Based Narrative Language Training in Typically Developing Turkish-Dutch Children.

Introduction: Due to the heterogeneity in language trajectories and differences in language exposure, a lot of bilingual children could use some extra support for the acquisition of the school language to reduce the risk of language problems and learning difficulties. Enhancing bilingual children's narrative abilities in the school language could be an efficient approach to advance the general school language abilities as well. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether a narrative intervention could improve both general and narrative school language abilities of typically developing bilingual (Turkish-Dutch) children.

Development of the hearing-related quality of life questionnaire for auditory-visual, cognitive and psychosocial functioning (hAVICOP).

Introduction: There is a need for a validated and standardized self-assessment instrument to assess the subjective effect of hearing aid (HA) use and/or cochlear implantation (CI) on different aspects of functioning in daily life. The aim of this study was to develop a new holistic Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess hearing-related quality of life. The new PROM is titled the hearing-related quality of life questionnaire for Auditory-VIsual, COgnitive and Psychosocial functioning (hAVICOP).

The Effects of Age, Gender and Test Stimuli on Visual Speech Perception: A Preliminary Study.

Introduction: To the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of reliable, validated, and standardized (Dutch) measuring instruments to document visual speech perception in a structured way. This study aimed to: (1) evaluate the effects of age, gender, and the used word list on visual speech perception examined by a first version of the Dutch Test for (Audio-)Visual Speech Perception on word level (TAUVIS-words) and (2) assess the internal reliability of the TAUVIS-words.

Methods: Thirty-nine normal-hearing adults divided into the following 3 age categories were included: (1) younger adults, age 18-39 years; (2) middle-aged adults, age 40-59 years; and (3) older adults, age >60 years.

The impact of hormone therapy on vocal quality in postmenopausal women.

Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of hormone therapy (HT) on vocal characteristics in postmenopausal women by comparing postmenopausal women with HT (n=59) and postmenopausal women without HT (n=46). The second purpose was to investigate the differences in vocal characteristics between two types of HT: estrogen therapy (ET) and estrogen-progestogen therapy (E-PT).

Methods: To determine the vocal characteristics in both groups, objective (aerodynamic measurements, vocal range measurements, acoustic analysis, and a determination of the dysphonia severity index) and subjective assessment techniques (perceptual evaluation, videostroboscopic evaluation, and voice handicap index) were used.

The impact of a voice counseling procedure to select students with normal vocal characteristics for starting a master program in speech language pathology: a pilot study.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine objective vocal quality, vocal characteristics, and vocal habits in future speech language pathology (SLP) students and to evaluate the possible impact of a provided vocal counseling procedure. A comparison of vocal data was done in SLP students who had and who had not undergone vocal counseling procedure. It is hypothesized that counseling results in good vocal quality, adequate vocal performance, and appropriate vocal hygiene.

A comparison of the perceptual evaluation of speech production between bilaterally implanted children, unilaterally implanted children, children using hearing aids, and normal-hearing children.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the perceptual evaluation of several speech characteristics between bilaterally implanted children (biCI), unilaterally implanted children (uniCI), children using hearing aids (HA), and normal-hearing children (NH).

Design: Perceptual evaluations of intelligibility, phonation, resonance, and articulation were compared between the several subgroups.

Study Sample: Thirteen biCI children, 14 uniCI children, 10 HA children using hearing aids and 11 NH children participated.

A comparison of vowel productions in prelingually deaf children using cochlear implants, severe hearing-impaired children using conventional hearing aids and normal-hearing children.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare vowel productions by deaf cochlear implant (CI) children, hearing-impaired hearing aid (HA) children and normal-hearing (NH) children.

Patients And Methods: 73 children [mean age: 9;14 years (years;months)] participated: 40 deaf CI children, 34 moderately to profoundly hearing-impaired HA children and 42 NH children. For the 3 corner vowels [a], [i] and [u], F(1), F(2) and the intrasubject SD were measured using the Praat software.

Intelligibility of hearing impaired children as judged by their parents: A comparison between children using cochlear implants and children using hearing aids.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the intelligibility of prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants (CI) as judged by their own parents, and to compare these results with prelingually hearing impaired children using hearing aids (HA) and normally hearing (NH) children. The authors hypothesised that subjects using conventional hearing aids would have poorer intelligibility judgements compared to NH and CI children.

Methodology: This is a comparative study of 24 prelingually deaf CI children (m.

Objective vocal quality in children using cochlear implants: a multiparameter approach.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the objective vocal quality in 36 prelingually deaf children using cochlear implant (CI) with a mean age of 9 years. An additional purpose was to compare the objective vocal quality of these 36 CI users with 25 age-matched children with prelingual severe hearing loss using conventional hearing aids (HAs) and 25 normal hearing (NH) children.

Study Design: The design for this cross-sectional study was a multigroup posttest-only design.

The impact of vocal warm-up exercises on the objective vocal quality in female students training to be speech language pathologists.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a specific vocal warm-up (WU) program-focused on the improvement of the dynamics of the extrinsic and intrinsic laryngeal muscles-on the objective vocal quality in Dutch female students who are getting trained to be speech language pathologists (SLPs). Hypothetically, one can assume that the objective vocal quality will increase after vocal WU exercises in SLPs in comparison with the matched control group that receives no WU program.

Methods: This was a pretest-posttest control group design study, in which 45 female future SLPs were randomly assigned into two groups.

Vocal characteristics of middle-aged premenopausal women.

Aging influences the laryngeal anatomy and physiology, leading to altered vocal quality. In middle-aged women, the voice is affected by a combination of aging and menopausal transition. However, in many studies about vocal aging, the menopausal transition is not taken into account.

A comparison of the consonant production between Dutch children using cochlear implants and children using hearing aids.

Objectives: The main purpose of the present study was to compare the consonant error patterns of Dutch prelingually deaf CI children with prelingually hearing-impaired hearing aid (HA) children. The authors hypothesized that subjects using conventional hearing aids would have poorer consonant production skills. Additionally, the impact of the age at implantation (CI) and the degree of hearing loss (HA) was determined.

Impact of thyroidectomy without laryngeal nerve injury on vocal quality characteristics: an objective multiparameter approach.

Objectives/hypothesis: The main purpose of this study was to determine the impact of thyroidectomy on the subjective and objective vocal quality using the Dysphonia Severity Index. It was hypothesized that objective measures of vocal function and other vocal characteristics would change (temporarily or permanently) from the presurgical to the postsurgical conditions, even with the entire preservation of the laryngeal nerve, due to the surgical approach and other influencing factors.

Study Design: Prospective study in which 44 subjects were studied before (1 week) and three times post-thyroidectomy.

The prevalence of lisping in gay men.

Unlabelled: This study evaluated the stereotype that gay men lisp. Two clinicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populations involved judged randomized audio-recordings of 175 gay males, 100 heterosexual males and 100 heterosexual females for the presence of lisping during reading of a standardized text. In the gay males a significantly higher prevalence of lisping was found than in the heterosexual males and females.

Speech outcome regarding overall intelligibility, articulation, resonance and voice in Flemish children a year after pharyngeal flap surgery. A pilot study.

Objective: The main purpose of this study is to determine the treatment effectiveness of pharyngeal flap surgery by measuring speech outcome 1 year after surgery. The authors hypothesized that flap surgery is an effective technique for velopharyngeal inadequacy resulting in improved intelligibility, decreased hypernasality and nasalance scores and normal voice characteristics.

Patients And Methods: Objective (Nasometer, Dysphonia Severity Index) as well as subjective (perceptual evaluations) assessment techniques were performed in 7 subjects.

Overall intelligibility, language, articulation, voice and resonance characteristics in a child with Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome.

Objective: Recognition of the phenotypic spectrum and prognosis of a genetic disorder is critical to proper patient care. A 7-year-old boy with Sphrintzen-Goldberg syndrome (SGS) was studied to investigate speech, language and voice patterns associated with this syndrome.

Methods: The child's language (expressive and receptive) and speech was characterized with regard to overall intelligibility, articulation (phonetic and phonological errors), voice (flexible videolaryngostroboscopy, quality, pitch and loudness) and resonance (type of disorders).