130 results match your criteria: "Hearing Clinic[Affiliation]"

Background: Audiologic rehabilitation aims to improve communication for people with hearing impairment. Education is widely regarded as an integral part of rehabilitation, but the effect of the delivery method of an educational program on the experience of hearing problems has rarely been investigated in controlled trials.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term effects of complementing an educational program for hearing aid users with telephone consultations, delivered through weekly discussions with the subjects about information obtained from a book on hearing and hearing aids.

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Ethics in stuttering treatment in the schools: issues and intersections.

Semin Speech Lang

November 2011

Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001, USA.

When the challenges of providing speech-language pathology services in school settings intersect with the complexities of meeting the unique needs of students who stutter, clinicians may encounter a variety of ethical issues. This article explores some of the ethical challenges of treating stuttering in school settings by discussing three clinical scenarios. Seedhouse's Ethics Grid is provided as a scaffold to support the critical analysis of school-based stuttering treatment issues.

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Objective: With more children receiving cochlear implants at an early age, there is a need for evaluation and assessment of early auditory behavior. We present the translation of the LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire into Hebrew and into Arabic. First the validation of the LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire in normal hearing children was evaluated.

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Using telepractice in parent training in early autism.

Telemed J E Health

January 2011

Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 89225-9171, USA.

There is a growing body of literature indicating that intense early intervention is current best practice for treating children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Several studies demonstrate the effectiveness of parents as agents of intervention in the child's home environment. However, this approach requires intense one-on-one supervision by highly trained professionals.

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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) for tinnitus.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev

March 2010

Otology & Neurotology, St. Paul's Rotary Hearing Clinic, 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 1Y6.

Background: Tinnitus is described as the perception of sound or noise in the absence of real acoustic stimulation. Although an outright cure for tinnitus remains elusive, various management strategies have been developed to help to lessen the impact of the symptom. Following the publication of a neurophysiological model of tinnitus, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) was developed.

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The ongoing dilemma of residual cholesteatoma detection: are current magnetic resonance imaging techniques good enough?

J Laryngol Otol

December 2010

Rotary Hearing Clinic, Division of Otolaryngology, St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Introduction: There is a clear clinical need to reliably detect residual cholesteatoma after canal wall up mastoid surgery. Ideally, this would be achieved through non-invasive radiological means rather than second-look surgery, thus preventing morbidity in those patients in whom no residual disease is found.

Case Report: We describe a case in which non-echo-planar, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging sequences were used pre-operatively, and compared with subsequent surgical findings.

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Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of remote programming for cochlear implants.

Study Design: Retrospective review of the cochlear implant performance for patients who had undergone mapping and programming of their cochlear implant via remote connection through the Internet.

Methods: Postoperative Hearing in Noise Test and Consonant/Nucleus/Consonant word scores for 7 patients who had undergone remote mapping and programming of their cochlear implant were compared with the mean scores of 7 patients who had been programmed by the same audiologist over a 12-month period.

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UK and Ireland experience of cochlear implants in children with Down syndrome.

Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol

March 2010

ENT and Hearing Clinic for Children with Down Syndrome, Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, United Kingdom.

Objectives: Down Syndrome (DS) is associated with a high incidence of hearing loss. The majority of hearing loss is conductive, but between 4 and 20% is sensorineural, which in the main is mild or moderate and is managed with conventional behind-the-ear hearing aids. Cochlear implantation is an elective invasive procedure, performed to provide some form of hearing rehabilitation in individuals with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, and initially candidacy criteria were strict--excluding patients with additional disabilities.

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Background: The toss of a coin has been a method used to determine random outcomes for centuries. It is still used in some research studies as a method of randomization, although it has largely been discredited as a valid randomization method. We sought to provide evidence that the toss of a coin can be manipulated.

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Introduction: Congenital syphilis is a known cause of progressive sensorineural hearing loss. The prevalence of syphilitic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in childhood is not clearly defined.

Objective: To determine the frequency and characteristics of pediatric SNHL following intrauterine infection with or exposure to Treponema pallidum in order to develop evidence-based guidelines for audiologic monitoring.

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Clinical audiologists and audiometric equipment manufacturers have embraced the clinical use of insert earphones; however, their use in audiometric testing in occupational hearing loss prevention programs has been limited. This study was undertaken to research whether certified audiometric technicians without practical hands-on training could reliably use insert earphones when compared to a clinically experienced audiologist. Hearing thresholds were obtained on 60 human ears by six certified audiometric technicians using insert earphones for the first time.

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Is the healthy middle ear a normally sterile site?

Otol Neurotol

February 2009

Division of Otolaryngology, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS), St. Paul's Rotary Hearing Clinic, Providence, Vancouver, Canada.

Objective: To systematically evaluate the presumption that the healthy middle ear becomes colonized with organisms via the patent eustachian tube using modern microbiologic techniques.

Study Design: Sterile saline washings were obtained from the middle ear of patients in a prospective fashion.

Setting: Tertiary/quaternary referral centers.

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The use of conversational repairs by African American preschoolers.

Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch

October 2008

Michigan State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Oyer Speech and Hearing Clinic, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212, USA.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the types and frequency of conversational repairs used by African American (AA) children in relationship to their geographic locations and levels of performance on commonly used speech-language measures.

Method: The strategies used to initiate repairs and respond to repair requests were identified in audiovisual records of spontaneous speech sampled from 120 Head Start students in Michigan (n = 69) and Louisiana (n = 51) at 3 years of age. The 30-40-min samples were elicited with common stimuli and activities while the children interacted with an adult examiner.

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Multicultural/multilingual instruction in educational programs: a survey of perceived faculty practices and outcomes.

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

August 2008

Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Oyer Speech and Hearing Clinic, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212, USA.

Purpose: To describe the instructional strategies reported for multicultural/multilingual issues (MMI) education at programs in speech-language pathology and audiology and the perceived ease and effectiveness of doing so.

Method: A 49-item questionnaire elicited anonymous responses from administrators, faculty, and teaching clinical supervisors at educational programs accredited by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in the United States. The data were provided by 731 respondents from 79.

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Objective: To develop evidence-based guidelines for appropriate audiological monitoring of children born following exposure to or infection with Herpes simplex virus (HSV) for development of immediate or delayed-onset of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).

Data Sources: A Medline search of the 1966-July 2007 database was supplemented by search of the additional database Embase (1980-July 2007). Manual search was conducted of references of identified papers and book chapters.

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Objective: To examine the influence of speech perception, cognition, and implicit phonological learning on articulation skills of children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) and children with cleft palate or velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD).

Design: Cross-sectional group experimental design.

Participants: Eight children with VCFS and five children with nonsyndromic cleft palate or VPD.

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Short-term and long-term hearing aid benefit and user satisfaction: a comparison between two fitting protocols.

J Am Acad Audiol

June 2007

Gebbie Hearing Clinic, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.

Currently published hearing aid fitting protocols recommend speech-in-noise testing and loudness measures, but it remains unclear how these measures affect hearing aid benefit and user satisfaction. This study compared two protocols in their effects on benefit and satisfaction. Protocol A included an electroacoustic analysis, real-ear measures, and hearing aid adjustments based on users' comments.

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Voice onset time for female trained and untrained singers during speech and singing.

J Commun Disord

November 2007

Department of Communication Disorders, L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic, Florida State University, 107 Regional Rehabilitation Center, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1200, USA.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to examine the voice onset times of female trained and untrained singers during spoken and sung tasks. Thirty females were digitally recorded speaking and singing short phrases containing the English stop consonants /p/ and /b/ in the word-initial position. Voice onset time was measured for each phoneme and statistically analyzed.

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Comparisons of voice onset time for trained male singers and male nonsingers during speaking and singing.

J Voice

September 2005

College of Communication, Department of Communication Disorders, L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306, USA.

This study was designed to examine the temporal acoustic differences between male trained singers and nonsingers during speaking and singing across voiced and voiceless English stop consonants. Recordings were made of 5 trained singers and 5 nonsingers, and acoustically analyzed for voice onset time (VOT). A mixed analysis of variance showed that the male trained singers had significantly longer mean VOT than did the nonsingers during voiceless stop production.

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Prevalence of hearing loss in primary school children in Zimbabwe.

Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol

April 2005

Division of Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia, St. Paul's Rotary Hearing Clinic, Providence 2, 1081 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of significant hearing impairment in children attending primary school in the country of Zimbabwe.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of the prevalence of hearing impairment in primary school children was undertaken as part of The Rotary Hearing Health Care Program in Zimbabwe. The sampling unit was primary schools in Manicaland, a province of Zimbabwe.

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Role of the speech-language pathologist in palliative hospice care.

J Palliat Med

October 2004

Western Michigan University, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Charles Van Riper Language, Speech and Hearing Clinic, Clinical Instructor, Speech-Language Pathologist, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5355, USA.

In reviewing the literature, there are few articles describing the role of the speech-language pathologist in hospice. Communication impairments can impact upon the hospice team's ability to provide symptom control and supportive psychosocial care, and diminish the patient's ability to guide the decision making process and maintain social closeness with family. Swallowing difficulties may result in discomfort for patients and concern from caregivers.

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Objective: To examine whether intratympanic injection of dexamethasone is effective in long-term control of vertigo for patients with Ménière disease whose dietary and diuretic therapy has proved unsuccessful.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review performed at Carolina Ear and Hearing Clinic, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Methods: Thirty-four patients with intractable Meniere disease were given intratympanic injections of corticosteroids using dexamethasone 10 mg/mL for 4 weeks.

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Objectives: The educational objectives were to discuss a new technique to manage acquired cholesteatomas and to compare this with standard approaches used for cholesteatoma removal. The study objective was to determine the feasibility of using a new approach, the reversible canal wall down approach, in conjunction with bone cement to remove acquired cholesteatomas and, potentially, preserve the ossicular chain.

Study Design: Retrospective review of five patients who underwent resection of their acquired cholesteatomas using a technique that maximizes exposure, yet preserves the posterior canal wall and, potentially, the ossicular chain.

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