Contribution of Treatment with Ear Popper for Hearing in Children with Middle Ear Effusion.

Objectives: we aim to assess the contribution of the EarPopper device to hearing in children with middle ear effusion (MEE).

Methods: The study has three parts, including 1. tympanometry and audiometry before and six weeks after using the EarPopper to evaluate the treatment's effect over time compared to a control group; 2.

The Complexity of Hearing Aid Fitting: Children with Congenital Hearing Loss and Middle Ear Dysfunction.

Background: The early diagnosis of hearing loss (HL) and hearing rehabilitation facilitate language and communication development. Some children exhibit mixed HL due to middle ear effusion (MEE) or acute otitis media (AOM). Mixed HL can affect HL evaluation and hearing aid (HA) fitting.

Effect of auditory feedback on speech intelligibility of adults with cochlear implants.

Purpose: Auditory feedback (AF) contributes to speech intelligibility (SI) which is vital in social interactions to examine AF effect on SI of adults with cochlear implant (CI). The relationship between age of CI implantation and AF on SI was examined as well.

Method: Twenty native Hebrew speaker pre-lingual adults with a hearing loss using CIs from ages 2 to 19 years.

The neonate has a temporary conductive hearing loss due to fluid in the middle ear.

Postnatal functional changes in the activity of the ear and auditory pathway in neonatal guinea pigs [from day of birth (postnatal day, PND = 0), PNDs 1-4, 7 and then weekly up to 7 weeks] were studied as a model of maturation of hearing in human neonates. On the day of birth there were signs of a conductive hearing loss: negative middle ear pressure, auditory nerve brainstem evoked response (ABR) threshold elevation, ABR wave 1 latency prolongation and low amplitude otoacoustic emissions. The conductive hearing loss is probably a result of the (amniotic) fluid found in the neonatal middle-ear cavity.

Mechanisms responsible for postnatal middle ear amniotic fluid clearance.

Neonatal guinea pigs show signs of a temporary conductive hearing loss during the first few days after birth. It has been suggested that this is due mainly to the presence of amniotic fluid in the middle ear (ME) cavity at birth and its subsequent clearance. This study was designed to try to identify the mechanisms responsible for the amniotic fluid clearance from the ME after birth by means of several experiments in guinea pigs.