The Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) Scale: Normative Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 220-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Y.C. Ching ◽  
Mandy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
School Aged Children

The Parent's Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of amplification for infants and children with hearing impairment by a systematic use of parents' observations. The PEACH was administered to 180 parents (one parent of each of 90 children with normal hearing that ranged in age from 0.25 to 46 months, and 90 children with hearing impairment that ranged in age from 4 months to 19 years). The internal consistency reliability was 0.88, and the test-retest correlation was 0.93. Normative data are presented to enable performance of children with hearing impairment to be related to their normally hearing peers and/or other children with similar degrees of hearing loss. Ninety and ninety-five percent critical differences are presented to facilitate evaluation of differences between scores obtained under different conditions for the same individual. The PEACH can be used with infants as young as one month old and with school-aged children who have hearing loss ranging from mild to profound degree. La Escala de Evaluación de los Padres sobre el Desempeño Auditivo/Oral Infantil (PEACH) fue desarrollada para evaluar la efectividad en la amplificación de infantes y niños con trastornos auditivos, haciendo uso sistemático de las observaciones de los padres. Se administró el PEACH a 180 padres (un progenitor por cada 90 niños con audición normal en edades entre 0.25 y 46 meses, y por cada 90 niños con hipoacusia en edades entre los 4 meses y los 19 años). La confiabilidad en la consistencia interna fue 0.88, y la correlación test-retest fue 0.93. Se presentan los datos normativos para establecer la relación entre niños con hipoacusia y niños normo-oyentes, y/o con otros niños con grados similares de hipoacusia. Se presentan diferencias críticas del noventa y noventa y cinco por ciento para facilitar la evaluación de diferencias entre los puntajes obtenidos bajo diferentes condiciones en el mismo individuo. El PEACH puede utilizarse en niños desde un mes de edad hasta la edad escolar, con grados de hipoacusia de grado leve a profundo.

scholarly journals The use of speech sentence audiometry in a free sound field

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Mariya Yu. Boboshko ◽  
Irina P. Berdnikova ◽  
Natalya V. Maltzeva
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Hearing Aid Benefit

Objectives -to determine the normative data of sentence speech intelligibility in a free sound field and to estimate the applicability of the Russian Matrix Sentence test (RuMatrix) for assessment of the hearing aid fitting benefit. Material and methods. 10 people with normal hearing and 28 users of hearing aids with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss were involved in the study. RuMatrix test both in quiet and in noise was performed in a free sound field. All patients filled in the COSI questionnaire. Results. The hearing impaired patients were divided into two subgroups: the 1st with high and the 2nd with low hearing aid benefit, according to the COSI questionnaire. In the 1st subgroup, the threshold for the sentence intelligibility in quiet was 34.9 ± 6.4 dB SPL, and in noise -3.3 ± 1.4 dB SNR, in the 2nd subgroup 41.7 ± 11.5 dB SPL and 0.15 ± 3.45 dB SNR, respectively. The significant difference between the data of both subgroups and the norm was registered (p

Effect of Age on Prediction of Hearing Loss with the Bivariate-Plotting Procedure

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomo Silman ◽  
Carol Ann Silverman ◽  
Theresa Showers ◽  
Stanley A. Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Bivariate Plot ◽  
Accuracy Of Prediction ◽  
Effect Of Age

The effect of age on accuracy of prediction of hearing impairment with the bivariate-plotting procedure was investigated in 72 normal-hearing subjects aged 20–69 years and in 86 sensorineural hearing-impaired subjects aged 20–83 years. The predictive accuracy with the bivariate-plotting procedure improved markedly when the data from subjects over 44 years of age were excluded from the bivariate plot. The predictive accuracy improved further when the construction of the line segments in the traditional bivariate plot was modified.

Speech Understanding Using Surgical Masks: A Problem in Health Care?

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (09) ◽  
pp. 686-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Lucks Mendel ◽  
Julie A. Gardino ◽  
Samuel R. Atcherson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Speech Understanding ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Dental Office ◽  
Significant Difference

Background: Successful communication is necessary in health-care environments. Yet the presence of noise in hospitals, operating rooms, and dental offices may have a deleterious effect on health-care personnel and patients understanding messages accurately. The presence of a surgical mask and hearing loss may further affect speech perception. Purpose: To evaluate whether a surgical mask had an effect on speech understanding for listeners with normal hearing and hearing impairment when speech stimuli were administered in the presence or absence of dental office noise. Research Design: Participants were assigned to one of two groups based on hearing sensitivity in this quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study. Study Sample: A total of 31 adults participated in this study (1 talker, 15 listeners with normal hearing, and 15 with hearing impairment). The normal hearing group had thresholds of 25 dB HL or better at the octave frequencies from 250 through 8000 Hz while the hearing loss group had varying degrees and configurations of hearing loss with thresholds equal to or poorer than 25 dB HL for the same octave frequencies. Data Collection And Analysis: Selected lists from the Connected Speech Test (CST) were digitally recorded with and without a surgical mask present and then presented to the listeners in four conditions: without a mask in quiet, without a mask in noise, with a mask in quiet, and with a mask in noise. Results: A significant difference was found in the spectral analyses of the speech stimuli with and without the mask. The presence of a surgical mask, however, did not have a detrimental effect on speech understanding in either the normal-hearing or hearing-impaired groups. The dental office noise did have a significant effect on speech understanding for both groups. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the presence of a surgical mask did not negatively affect speech understanding. However, the presence of noise did have a deleterious effect on speech perception and warrants further attention in health-care environments.

Auditory Stroop Effects in Children With Hearing Impairment

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1083-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Jerger ◽  
Gayle Stout ◽  
Marilyn Kent ◽  
Elizabeth Albritton ◽  
Louise Loiselle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Speed Accuracy ◽  
The Voice

The accurate perception of speech involves the processing of multidimensional information. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of the semantic dimension on the processing of the auditory dimension of speech by children with hearing impairment. The processing interactions characterizing the semantic and auditory dimensions were assessed with a pediatric auditory Stroop task. The subjects, 20 children with hearing impairment and 60 children with normal hearing, were instructed to attend selectively to the voice-gender of speech targets while ignoring the semantic content. The type of target was manipulated to represent conflicting, neutral, and congruent relations between dimensions (e.g., the male voice saying "Mommy," "ice cream," or "Daddy" respectively). The normal-hearing listeners could not ignore the irrelevant semantic content. Instead, reaction times were slower to the conflict targets (Stroop interference) and faster to the congruent targets (Stroop congruency). The subjects with hearing impairment showed prominent Stroop congruency, but minimal Stroop interference. Reduced Stroop interference was not associated with chronological age, a speed-accuracy tradeoff, a non-neutral baseline, or relatively poorer discriminability of the word input. The present results suggest that the voice-gender and semantic dimensions of speech were not processed independently by these children, either those with or those without hearing loss. However, the to-be-ignored semantic dimension exerted a less consistent influence on the processing of the voice-gender dimension in the presence of childhood hearing loss. The overall pattern of results suggests that speech processing by children with hearing impairment is carried out in a less stimulus-bound manner.

Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception in Listeners With Normal Hearing and Cochlear Impairment

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1306-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Hall ◽  
John H. Grose
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Frequency Separation ◽  
Choice Procedure ◽  
Cochlear Hearing Loss ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Band Number ◽  
Envelope Correlation

Monaural envelope correlation perception was investigated in listeners with normal hearing and in listeners with cochlear hearing loss. Using a three-interval forced-choice procedure, the task of the subject was to identify the one interval out of three where the noise bands had correlated envelopes. Performance was determined as a function of the spectral separation between noise bands (Δf of 250, 500, or 1000 Hz) and the number of noise bands present (two, three, or five). Although individual differences existed, the results generally indicated better performance for the listeners with normal hearing when the Δf between bands was relatively small; however, there was no significant effect of hearing loss when the frequency separation between bands was greater than 250 Hz. The listeners with normal hearing generally showed decreased performance with increasing Δf, whereas the performance of many of the listeners with hearing impairment usually did not change appreciably with variation in Δf. Both groups of listeners showed improved performance with increasing number of noise bands present for the 500-Hz Δf. Only the listeners with hearing impairment showed significantly improved performance with increasing band number for the 250-Hz Δf; neither group showed improved performance with increasing band number for the 1000-Hz Δf. With five bands present, the performance of the listeners with hearing impairment did not differ significantly from that of the listeners with normal hearing, even for the 250-Hz Δf. It is possible that the poor performance of many of the listeners with hearing impairment when Δf is small may be due to relatively poor peripheral frequency analysis. It is difficult to determine the role of within-channel versus across-channel cues in the effects obtained.

Validity, Internal Consistency, and Test/Retest Reliability of a Localization Disabilities and Handicaps Questionnaire

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (08) ◽  
pp. 585-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa N. Ruscetta ◽  
Catherine V. Palmer ◽  
John D. Durrant ◽  
Judith Grayhack ◽  
Carey Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Psychometric evaluations were performed on a self-perceived localization disabilities and handicaps questionnaire. Twenty individuals with normal hearing bilaterally, twenty with profound unilateral hearing impairment (UHI), and ten with any degree of bilateral hearing impairment participated. Each subject completed the questionnaire. Comparisons of the responses of the subjects with normal hearing and those with UHI revealed significant differences among the groups for both disabilities and handicaps, establishing construct validity. Cronbach's Alpha correlational analyses of the responses of all subjects with hearing impairment revealed correlations of .900 (disabilities) and .800 (handicaps), establishing internal consistency. Each participant with hearing impairment was asked to complete the questionnaire again after three weeks. Pearson's correlational analyses of the responses at time one versus time two revealed correlations of .900 (disabilities) and .700 (handicaps), establishing test/retest reliability. This questionnaire is an appropriate tool for investigating the self-perceived localization disabilities and handicaps of individuals with hearing impairment.

Effects of Click Duration on the Latency of the Early Evoked Response

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall C. Beattie ◽  
Robyn Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Pulse Duration ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Evoked Response ◽  
Electric Pulses ◽  
Clinically Significant

The effect of click duration on the latency of waves I, III, and V was investigated by testing 20 normal-hearing subjects at 60 dB HL using electric pulses of 25, 50, 100, 200, and 400 µs. Alternating condensation and rarefaction clicks were used. The results revealed similar and nonsignificant latency differences for the 25-, 50-, and 100-µs pulses. However, the 100 µs duration is preferred to the 25-µs pulse because the latter reduced the maximum measurable hearing loss by about 13 dB. The results also showed that latencies increased approximately 0.10 ms as duration increased from 100 to 200 µs and by 0.20 ms when duration increased from 100 to 400 µs. Although such differences by themselves are small, they can combine with other stimulus or recording variables to be clinically significant. Therefore, it is important to control click duration when normative data are generated. A second experiment was conducted to assess the interaction of polarity (condensation, rarefaction, and alternating) and pulse duration (100 and 400 µs) on the wave V latency. These data revealed no latency differences among polarities at either duration.

Frequency-Discrimination Ability of Hearing-Impaired Listeners

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Zurek ◽  
C. Formby
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Frequency Modulation ◽  
Hearing Threshold ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Frequency Discrimination ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Discrimination Ability ◽  
Hearing Sensitivity

Thresholds for frequency modulation were measured by an adaptive, two-alternative, forced-choice method with ten listeners: eight who showed varying degrees of sensorineural hearing impairment, and two with normal-hearing sensitivity. Results for test frequencies spaced at octave intervals between 125 and 4000 Hz showed that, relative to normal-hearing listeners, the ability of the hearing-impaired listeners to detect a sinusoidal frequency modulation: (1) is diminished above a certain level of hearing loss; and (2) is more disrupted for low-frequency tones than for high-frequency tones, given the same degree of hearing loss at the test frequency. The first finding is consistent with that of previous studies which show a general deterioration of frequency-discrimination ability associated with moderate, or worse, hearing loss. It is proposed that the second finding may be explained: 1) by differential impairment of the temporal and place mechanisms presumed to, encode pitch at the lower and higher frequencies, respectively; and/or, 2) for certain configurations of hearing loss, by the asymmetrical pattern of cochlear excitation that may lead to the underestimation, from measurements of threshold sensitivity, of hearing impairment for low-frequency tones and consequently to relatively large changes in frequency discrimination for small shifts in hearing threshold.

Reciprocal auditory attenuation affects looking behaviour and playing level but not ensemble synchrony: A psychoacoustical study of violin duos

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fulford ◽  
Carl Hopkins ◽  
Gary Seiffert ◽  
Jane Ginsborg
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Hearing Ability ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Audio Files

Evidence suggests that musicians may be more susceptible to developing a hearing impairment due to increased exposure to loud sounds over the lifespan. Hearing impairments can affect musical performance behaviours, yet research suggests they do not significantly affect ensemble synchrony unless the hearing loss is severe or profound. This study investigated the effect of reduced auditory feedback on ensemble synchrony, looking behaviour and playing level. Four violinists, with self-reported normal hearing, formed two duos in acoustically-isolated rooms separated by a glass window. Each player received feedback from their own and their co-performer’s playing attenuated by 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40 dB. Video recordings of their looking behaviours were coded and signed asynchronies were identified in the audio files. The strongest effects found were bi-directional changes to playing levels as a result of auditory feedback levels, which increased when a player’s own feedback was reduced and reduced when co-performer feedback was attenuated. Violinists’ looking behaviour was found to increase when co-performer feedback was attenuated by 20 dB or more relative to their own, such that they glanced more frequently and looked for longer towards their partners. There were no effects of auditory attenuation on ensemble synchrony, even with 40 dB attenuation. The results indicate that “self-to-other” sound level ratios are more likely to prompt compensatory musical performance behaviours than an individual’s hearing ability.

The Effect of Hearing Loss on the Perception of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1108-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Robertson ◽  
Deborah von Hapsburg ◽  
Jessica S. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Speech Signal ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Fixation Preference ◽  
Central Fixation

Purpose Infant-directed speech (IDS) facilitates language learning in infants with normal hearing, compared to adult-directed speech (ADS). It is well established that infants with normal hearing prefer to listen to IDS over ADS. The purpose of this study was to determine whether infants with hearing impairment (HI), like their NH peers, show a listening preference for IDS over ADS. Method A total of 36 infants—9 HI infants (mean chronological age of 19.1 with mean listening age of 7.7 months), 9 NH infants with similar average listening age (7.8 months), and 9 NH infants with similar average chronological age (18.6 months)—were tested on their listening preference for IDS compared with ADS using the central fixation preference procedure. Results Infants with HI significantly preferred listening to IDS over ADS. The preference for IDS was also seen in the younger NH infants, but not older NH controls. Additionally, HI infants showed shorter overall looking times as compared to either NH group. Conclusion Although infants with hearing loss displayed a shorter looking time to speech compared to NH controls, HI infants nonetheless appear to have sufficient access to the speech signal to display a developmentally appropriate preference for IDS over ADS.

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