Effectiveness of earmuffs in protecting hearing during shooting practice: a case-study.

Objective: This investigation was designed to determine the effectiveness of earmuffs worn by a single individual during shooting practice.

Design: Single subject experimental design.

Study Sample: A 21-year old female recreational shooter, who practiced shooting on a regular basis while using earmuffs participated in the study.

Objective evaluation of binaural summation through acoustic reflex measures.

Objective: A previous study [Rawool, V. W. (2016).

Effect of age-related hearing loss on the click-rate-induced facilitation of acoustic reflex thresholds.

Objective: This investigation was designed to evaluate the effect of age-related hearing loss on the click-rate-induced improvement in the acoustic reflex thresholds.

Design: Case-control study.

Study Sample: Data from five different adults ear-groups (15 ears each) were included in the study: 1.

Prevalence of Auditory Problems in Children With Feeding and Swallowing Disorders.

Purpose: Although an interdisciplinary approach is recommended for assessment and management of feeding or swallowing difficulties, audiologists are not always included in the interdisciplinary team. The purpose of this study is to report the prevalence of middle ear and hearing problems in children with feeding and swallowing disorders and to compare this prevalence with that in typical children.

Method: A total of 103 children were included in the study: 44 children with feeding and swallowing disorders and 59 children without any such disorders.

Detection of auditory signals in quiet and noisy backgrounds while performing a visuo-spatial task.

Context: The ability to detect important auditory signals while performing visual tasks may be further compounded by background chatter. Thus, it is important to know how task performance may interact with background chatter to hinder signal detection.

Aim: To examine any interactive effects of speech spectrum noise and task performance on the ability to detect signals.

Emerging technologies with potential for objectively evaluating speech recognition skills.

Work-related exposure to noise and other ototoxins can cause damage to the cochlea, synapses between the inner hair cells, the auditory nerve fibers, and higher auditory pathways, leading to difficulties in recognizing speech. Procedures designed to determine speech recognition scores (SRS) in an objective manner can be helpful in disability compensation cases where the worker claims to have poor speech perception due to exposure to noise or ototoxins. Such measures can also be helpful in determining SRS in individuals who cannot provide reliable responses to speech stimuli, including patients with Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injuries, and infants with and without hearing loss.

Perception of hearing status, communication, and hearing aids among socially active older individuals.

Objective: This study evaluated the accuracy of the self-perception of auditory status among socially active older non-hearing aid users. Their perception of their own communication proficiency and hearing aids was also assessed.

Methods: Thirty participants were asked if they thought they had hearing loss, and their auditory sensitivity was determined.

Auditory lifestyles and beliefs related to hearing loss among college students in the USA.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the auditory life styles and beliefs of college students with reference to exposure to loud sounds in the context of the health belief model. A survey was administered to 238 (40 men, 198 women) students in the USA. Results suggest that 44% of the students use noisy equipment without ear protection and 29% (69/238) of the students work in noisy environments.

Middle ear admittance and hearing abnormalities in individuals with osteoarthritis.

In osteoarthritis, the joint cartilage breaks down. Cartilage exists within the incudomalleolar and incudostapedial joints. In addition, the cartilage-covered base of the stapes footplate is bound to the cartilage-covered rim of the oval window by the annular ligament.

Prevalence of hearing loss in Rett syndrome.

This study examined the auditory status of females with Rett syndrome (RS) using auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing and measures of acoustic admittance. Prevalence of hearing impairment in 81 female patients (age range 1 year 3 months to 39 years 8 months; mean age 8 years 7 months, SD 6 years 4 months) was evaluated with ABR measurements. If the ABR latencies at 20dB nHL exceeded those of the normative group, a slight hearing loss was diagnosed.

Acoustic reflex thresholds at varying click rates in children.

Objective: Previous studies conducted with young adults have shown that ipsilateral acoustic reflex thresholds improve with an increase in the click-rate. Older adults also show an improvement in acoustic reflex thresholds with an increase in the click-rate. However, the click-rate induced facilitation (RIF) of acoustic reflex thresholds is significantly reduced in older adults.