Publications by authors named "Susan Gordon-Hickey"

The Research, Discovery, and Innovation Publications (RDI-P) Task Force met from October 2020 to March 2022 to discuss ways in which the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) can help to guide institutional leaders to assign faculty effort and resources to enable success with the scholarship mission. The purpose of this White Paper is to propose a guiding framework for institutional leaders to determine their faculty's individual or team scholarly goals, assign appropriate percent efforts (funded/unfunded), and guide an overall faculty mix that balances required teaching loads with scholarly activities. The Task Force identified seven modifiable factors that can influence workload allocation for scholarship: 1.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of transducer (loudspeaker, supra-aural headphones, and insert earphones) selection on the acceptable noise level (ANL).

Study Sample: Thirty young adults with normal hearing who reported difficulty with background noise served as participants.

Research Design: A repeated-measures experimental design was employed.

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Background: The acceptable noise level (ANL) is the maximum level of background noise that an individual is willing to accept while listening to speech. The type of background noise does not affect ANL results except for music.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if ANL differed due to music genre or music genre preference.

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Purpose: This study investigated interprofessional practice (IPP) trends and attitudes between speech-language pathologists (SLP) and audiologists (AUD).

Methods: Clinical SLPs and AUDs completed an online survey, consisting of demographics, caseload trends, collaborative practice trends, and barriers to collaborative practice.

Results: A total of 237 participants (131 SLPs, 106 AUDs) completed an online survey.

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Background: Acceptance of background noise serves as a means to predict likelihood of hearing aid success. Individuals that are able to accept background noise are more likely to be successful with hearing aids.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess the impact of sound enrichment on the acceptable noise level (ANL).

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Medications and their associated side effects impact systems treated by speech-language pathologists and audiologists, such as speech, language, voice, swallowing, hearing, tinnitus, and balance. However, students in these disciplines receive limited training in pharmacology, while nursing students receive training in pharmacology but limited training in communication disorders. In this interprofessional simulation experience to increase understanding of the impact of medications on communication, swallowing, and balance, audiology, nursing, and speech-language pathology students worked together to interview standardized patients (SPs) about their medications and symptoms in a simulated clinical setting.

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Background: The acceptable noise level (ANL) is a measure of willingness to listen to speech in the presence of background noise and is thought to be related to success with amplification. To date, ANLs have only been assessed over short periods of time, including within a session and over a 3-week and 3-month time period. ANL stability over longer periods of time has not been assessed.

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Background: Older adults often struggle with accurate perception of rate-altered speech and have difficulty understanding speech in noise. The acceptable noise level (ANL) quantifies a listener's willingness to listen to speech in background noise and has been found to accurately predict hearing aid success. Based on the difficulty older adults experience with rapid speech, we were interested in how older adults may change the amount of background noise they willingly accept in a variety of speech rate conditions.

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Objective: To measure the effect of traumatic brain injury on the cognitive processing of words, as measured by the P300, in a semantic categorization task.

Participants: Eight adults with a history of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and 8 age- and gender-matched controls.

Design: A pilot study measuring cognitive event-related potentials in response to word pairs that were either in same or different semantic categories.

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Background: The acceptable noise level (ANL) has been proposed as a prehearing aid fitting measure that could be used for hearing aid selection and counseling purposes. Previous work has demonstrated that a listener's ANL is unrelated to their speech recognition in noise abilities. It is unknown what criteria a listener uses when they select their ANL.

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Background: The acceptable noise level (ANL) serves to accurately predict the listener's likelihood of success with amplification. It has been proposed as a pre-hearing aid fitting protocol for hearing aid selection and counseling purposes. The ANL is a subjective measure of the listener's ability to accept background noise.

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Purpose: To evaluate the effect of different speech conditions on background noise acceptance. A total of 23 stimulus pairings, differing in primary talker gender (female, male, conventional), number of background talkers (1, 4, 12), and gender composition of the background noise (female, male, mixed) were used to evaluate background noise acceptance.

Method: A repeated measures research design was used.

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Objective: Background noise acceptance while listening to speech, assessed via the acceptable noise level (ANL) measure, has been shown to be an accurate predictor of hearing-aid success. No specific listener characteristics have been identified as being related to a listener's ability to accept background noise. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not locus of control and self-control are related to ANL.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of using slow and fast speaking rates in competing noise on older adults with normal hearing (NH) and those with hearing impairment (HI).

Method: Thirty-four older adults (56-85 years) were grouped based on hearing ability-NH (N = 15) and HI (N = 19). Rate-altered Quick Speech-in-Noise Test (QuickSIN; Etymotic Research, 2001) stimuli were presented at 3 speech rates (slow, average, and fast), and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss was calculated for each.

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Background: For adults the acceptable noise level (ANL) has been shown to be a strong predictor of hearing aid success. ANL is calculated as the difference between most comfortable listening level (MCL) and background noise level (BNL). No studies have made direct comparisons of these measures between adults and children.

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Acceptable noise level (ANL) test materials were digitally modified to create five reverberant conditions by applying different values of reverberation time (RT) to a non-reverberant condition (RT = 0, 0.4, 0.7, 1.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of intelligible and unintelligible primary discourse on acceptance of noise. Of particular interest was the effect of intelligibility on the most comfortable loudness (MCL) component of acceptable noise level (ANL).

Method: ANLs were measured for 30 participants using an intelligible discourse, a reversed discourse, and an unfamiliar primary discourse.

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Acceptable noise level (ANL) is defined as the maximum level of background noise that an individual is willing to accept while listening to speech. The type of background noise does not affect ANL results with the possible exception of music. The purpose of this study was to determine if ANL for music was different from ANL for twelve-talker babble and investigate if there was a correlation between ANL for music samples and preference for those music samples.

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Various stimulus types have been investigated in pitch discrimination and pitch matching tasks. However, previous studies have not explored the use of recorded samples of an individual's own voice in performing these two tasks. The purpose of this study was to investigate pitch discrimination and pitch matching abilities using three stimuli conditions (participant's own voice, a neutral female voice, and nonvocal complex tones) to determine if pitch discrimination and/or pitch matching abilities are influenced by the type of stimuli presented.

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