A Study of the Combined Use of a Hearing Aid and Tactual Aid in an Adult with Profound Hearing Loss

Autor/inn/en	Reed, Charlotte M.; Delhorne, Lorraine A.
Titel	A Study of the Combined Use of a Hearing Aid and Tactual Aid in an Adult with Profound Hearing Loss
Quelle	In: Volta Review, 106 (2006) 2, S.171-193 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-8639
Schlagwörter	Assistive Technology; Adults; Hearing Impairments; Speech; Sentences; Connected Discourse; Lipreading; Acoustics; Environment; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Speaking; Sprechen; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Lippenlesen; Akustik; Umwelt; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	This study examined the benefits of the combined used of a hearing aid and tactual aid to supplement lip-reading in the reception of speech and for the recognition of environmental sounds in an adult with profound hearing loss. Speech conditions included lip-reading alone (L), lip-reading + tactual aid (L+TA) lip-reading + hearing aid (L+HA) and lip-reading + tactual aid + hearing aid (L+TA+HA). For identification of speech segments, reception of words in sentences and reception of continuous discourse, performance was generally ordered as L less than L+TA less than L+HA less than or equal to L+TA+HA. For environmental sound reception, closed-set identification on the combined condition of TA+HA was significantly better than through either of the devices alone. The subject finds the combination of both aids most useful for one-on-one speech reception in favorable background conditions. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10