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- Title
Improvements in Speech Understanding With Wireless Binaural Broadband Digital Hearing Instruments in Adults With Sensorineural Hearing Loss.
- Authors
Kreisman, Brian M.; Mazevski, Annette G.; Schum, Donald J.; Sockalingam, Ravichandran
- Abstract
This investigation examined whether speech intelligibility in noise can be improved using a new, binaural broadband hearing instrument system. Participants were 36 adults with symmetrical, sensorineural hearing loss (18 experienced hearing instrument users and 18 without prior experience). Participants were fit binaurally in a planned comparison, randomized crossover design study with binaural broadband hearing instruments and advanced digital hearing instruments. Following an adjustment period with each device, participants underwent two speech-in-noise tests: the QuickSIN and the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT). Results suggested significantly better performance on the QuickSIN and the HINT measures with the binaural broadband hearing instruments, when compared with the advanced digital hearing instruments and unaided, across and within all noise conditions.
- Subjects
BINAURAL hearing aids; AUDIOLOGY instruments; SPEECH perception; SPEECH audiometry; MEDICAL technology; TREATMENT of deafness
- Publication
Trends in Amplification, 2010, Vol 14, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1084-7138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1084713810364396