Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.24.1.46.31116
W. Rush, M. Battin, O. Wilson
The audiology outcomes for infants with a birth weight below 1500g were reviewed. Of 402 infants referred for audiology 319 (79%) attended. Two hundred and forty-six (77%) had sufficient hearing for the development of speech and language but 66 (21%) infants needed further testing and six infants (1.9%) had hearingimpairment.
{"title":"Audiology Outcomes in Infants Weighing Less than 1500 Grams at Birth","authors":"W. Rush, M. Battin, O. Wilson","doi":"10.1375/AUDI.24.1.46.31116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1375/AUDI.24.1.46.31116","url":null,"abstract":"The audiology outcomes for infants with a birth weight below 1500g were reviewed. Of 402 infants referred for audiology 319 (79%) attended. Two hundred and forty-six (77%) had sufficient hearing for the development of speech and language but 66 (21%) infants needed further testing and six infants (1.9%) had hearingimpairment.","PeriodicalId":114768,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123921409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.24.1.36.31115
L. Skinner, L. Hickson
This case study presents four and a half years of audiological observations, testing and aural habilitation of a female child with a partial agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC). The ACC was diagnosed by MRI scan performed at 6 months of age to eliminate neurological causes for the developmental delay. This child was also born with a cleft palate and was diagnosed with Robinow Syndrome at 3 years and 3 months of age. The audiological results showed an improvement in hearing thresholds over the 4-year period. The child’s ophthalmologist also reported an improvement in visual skills over time. The most interesting aspect of the child’s hearing was the discrepancy between the monaural and the binaural results. That is, when assessed binaurally she often presented with a mild to moderate mixed loss and, when assessed monaurally, she showed a moderate to severe mixed loss for the right ear and a severe mixed loss for the left ear. Over time, the discrepancy between the monaural and binaural results changed. When assessed binaurally, the loss decreased to normal low frequency hearing sloping to a mild high frequency loss. When assessed monaurally, the most recent results showed a mild loss for the right ear and a moderate loss for the left ear. This discrepancy between binaural and monaural results was evident for both aided and unaided tests. For the most recent thresholds, the binaural results were consistent with the right monaural thresholds for the first time over the four and a half years. Parental reports of the child’s hearing were consistent with the binaural clinical results. This case indicates the need for audiologists to (1) carefully monitor the hearing of children with ACC, (2) obtain monaural and binaural hearing and aided thresholds results, and (3) compare these children’s functional abilities with the objective test results obtained. This case does question whether hearing aids are appropriate for children with ACC. If hearing aids are deemed to be appropriate, then hearing aids with compression characteristics should be considered.
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.24.1.16.31112
G. Keidser, T. Ching, H. Dillon, Katrina Agung, C. Brew, Scott Brewer, M. Fisher, Levi Foster, F. Grant, L. Storey
This paper describes the speech and noise material on a new set of three CDs that is considered very suitable for hearing assessment and fine-tuning of hearing aids in audiological clinics. The material includes continuous discourses, various background noises, and three different speech test materials (BKB sentence test, four SPIN sentence lists, and Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCVs) nonsense syllables). All speech samples are recorded using native speakers of Australian English. Normative data in the form of the central part of performance-intensity functions are presented for the BKB sentences in babble-noise and for intelligibility rating of continuous discourse in nine background noises together with list-equivalence data for the BKB test. For each test, the critical difference that needs to be exceeded to obtain significantly different results is also presented. Applications for the material with respect to candidacy and hearing aid fine-tuning are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2001-11-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.2.63.31102
R. Cowan
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.1.18.31095
K. Galvin, J. Ginis, R. Cowan, P. Blamey, G. Clark
This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology 2001. This version is reproduced with permission from the publisher, Australian Academic Press. http://www.australianacademicpress.com.au/
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.1.52.31096
M. Davies, Lubna Yellon, S. Purdy
FM systems are widely used by children wearing cochlear implants, however there have been few studies of the benefit FM systems provide. This study investigated the speech-in-noise perception of fourteen children aged between 7 and 17 years who use a cochlear implant. Their speech perception was measured using the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT), a test of open-set sentence perception. The signal-to noise ratio was varied from 0 to -3 dB and a recording of actual classroom noise was used as the background noise. Noise was presented from four loudspeakers at 45 , 135 , 225 , and 315 azimuth to simulate classroom listening conditions. Significant FM benefit was found for the 0 and -3 dB SNR conditions. There was an interaction between subject age and FM benefit, with older children showing greater benefit. Younger children had more varied test results. Nine subjects (64%) had a measurable FM advantage based on HINT sentence scores. A small increase in noise level of 3 dB had a negative effect on speech perception, and the use of an FM system helped to counter this effect in most of the children.
{"title":"Speech-in-noise Perception of Children Using Cochlear Implants and FM Systems","authors":"M. Davies, Lubna Yellon, S. Purdy","doi":"10.1375/AUDI.23.1.52.31096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1375/AUDI.23.1.52.31096","url":null,"abstract":"FM systems are widely used by children wearing cochlear implants, however there have been few studies of the benefit FM systems provide. This study investigated the speech-in-noise perception of fourteen children aged between 7 and 17 years who use a cochlear implant. Their speech perception was measured using the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT), a test of open-set sentence perception. The signal-to noise ratio was varied from 0 to -3 dB and a recording of actual classroom noise was used as the background noise. Noise was presented from four loudspeakers at 45 , 135 , 225 , and 315 azimuth to simulate classroom listening conditions. Significant FM benefit was found for the 0 and -3 dB SNR conditions. There was an interaction between subject age and FM benefit, with older children showing greater benefit. Younger children had more varied test results. Nine subjects (64%) had a measurable FM advantage based on HINT sentence scores. A small increase in noise level of 3 dB had a negative effect on speech perception, and the use of an FM system helped to counter this effect in most of the children.","PeriodicalId":114768,"journal":{"name":"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124091970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.1.1.31098
Maryanne Golding
The Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) test and Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI) test are chiefly used to assess central auditory function. These tests are reportedly more tolerant of hearing loss than other measures and used together, provide analogous but differing measures of central auditory function which can be administered within an acceptable time frame. The purpose of this study was to generate and evaluate an Australian version of the DSI test and the SSI test. The test materials were trialed on younger and older normal hearing adults whose first language was Australian English. Results show near perfect performance for young adults using comfortable listening levels while older adults showed greater variability in performance. In addition, there was decreasing performance with age on both test measures for the left ear. These results were compared with those reported for the original SSI and DSI tests and similar outcomes were found.
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.1.37.31097
N. Walker, Gillian Wigglesworth
This study investigated differences in the phonological awareness, reading and spelling skills of Aboriginal children with and without, otitis media with effusion (OME) and conductive hearing loss. Participants were nine year 1 Aboriginal children with evidence of recent OME and ten control participants matched for grade level, socioeconomic status and Aboriginality. Four sub-tests of phonological awareness, the 10 Word Developmental Spelling Test and Freebody and Byrne's reading lists were administered to the children. Results indicated that OME and associated hearing loss during the early school years has a deleterious effect on the development of phonological awareness, and reading and spelling performance of urban Aboriginal children in year one. Correlational analyses indicated that phoneme segmentation had the strongest correlation with reading and spelling performance. It is recommended that hearing screening programs involving the diagnostic triad of otoscopy, tympanometry and audiometry be implemented in schools of high Aboriginal enrolment to ensure early diagnosis. This would allow the educational needs of the students to be better catered for. The results of this study lend support to initiatives by educational authorities to raise awareness of the educational implications of OME and associated conductive hearing loss.
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1375/AUDI.23.1.10.31099
A. Hogan, Alan Taylor, J. Doyle, R. Osborn, K. Fitzmaurice, H. Kendig
This paper examines communication and health issues associated with hearing difficulties reported in a population-based study of older people. One thousand (1000) randomly selected people aged 65 years and over participated in a cross-sectional survey of the health status of older people. Hearing loss was reported by 30% of respondents, a considerably lower percentage than has been reported by other population-based studies. Hearing aid usage, although low, was more typical of expected population rates at 14.8%. Hearing aid use was associated with increasing age and self-reported difficulties communicating one-to-one and in groups. Compared to people reporting good to excellent hearing, people with fair to poor hearing reported poorer general health, suggesting a possible threshold effect between health and hearing impairment. Further research is required to identify the appropriate mix of hearing aids and services required for this population and to examine the thesis of a threshold effect in hearing disability and health status.
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R. Mazlan, J. Kei, L. Hickson, S. Curtain, Gillian Baker, Kate E. Jarman, H. Glyde, J. Gavranich, Ron Linning
The aim of this study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of acoustic reflex (AR) test measured from a group of 6-week-old infants who passed a transient evoked otoacoustic emission test and an automated auditory brainstem response screening test. Ipsilateral acoustic reflex thresholds for a 2 kHz pure tone and broadband noise were recorded from 70 infants using a Madsen Otoflex Diagnostic Immittance meter with a probe tone of 1000 Hz. The mean AR thresholds obtained in the first test were 67.3 and 80.9 dB HL for the broadband noise and 2 kHz tone, respectively. The results for the retest condition did not differ significantly from those of the first test. The AR test also showed high test-retest reliability as demonstrated by intracorrelation coefficients across the test-retest conditions of 0.783 and 0.780 for the broadband noise and 2 kHz pure tone stimuli, respectively. Findings from this study suggest that the AR test could be used to establish reliable AR thresholds in 6-week-old infants.
本研究的目的是探讨6周大的婴儿通过瞬态诱发耳声发射测试和自动听觉脑干反应筛选测试所测得的声反射(AR)测试的重测信度。使用探测音调为1000 Hz的Madsen Otoflex诊断阻抗计记录了70名婴儿的2 kHz纯音和宽带噪声的同侧声反射阈值。在第一次测试中获得的宽带噪声和2 kHz音调的平均AR阈值分别为67.3和80.9 dB HL。复测条件的结果与第一次试验的结果没有显著差异。宽带噪声和2 kHz纯音刺激的内相关系数分别为0.783和0.780，表明AR测试也显示出较高的重测信度。本研究结果表明，AR测试可用于建立可靠的6周大婴儿AR阈值。
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