Smartphone Based Hearing Evaluation

This short, readable book describes the hearing evaluation of preschool children with communication disorders. The authors, an audiologist and an otologist, emphasize that in addition to peripheral hearing loss, other auditory pathology or additional problems (mental retardation, brain damage, psychological problems) may contribute to the communication handicap. They espouse the multiple discipline or team approach in the medical setting. There are six chapters, four of which describe methods for individual and group hearing evaluation. Standard techniques of hearing evaluation are not applicable to very young children who cannot give a voluntary response to an auditory stimulus.

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A Hearing Evaluation of a Squadron of Jet Aircraft Personnel

Military Medicine ◽

10.1093/milmed/121.5.319 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 121 (5) ◽

pp. 319-324

Author(s):

R. G. Hansen ◽

Captain C. Westerbeck

Keyword(s):

Hearing Evaluation

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Survey of the Clinical Use of Electrocochleography

Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology ◽

10.1177/000348947508400303 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 84 (3) ◽

pp. 297-307 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David E. Crowley ◽

Hallowell Davis ◽

Harry A. Beagley

Keyword(s):

Primary Factor ◽

Electrode Placement ◽

Clinical Use ◽

General Anesthetics ◽

Undesirable Effect ◽

Significant Information ◽

The World ◽

Psychiatric Problems ◽

Reliable Testing ◽

Hearing Evaluation

A questionnaire on the clinical use of electrocochleography (ECochG) was distributed to clinics throughout the world which use this method. The 26 replies comprised 3696 cases with a median age of 22.5 years. The majority (57.1%) were tested with a trans-tympanic promontory electrode. The risk of any undesirable effect from this electrode placement was negligible (less than 0.1%), but a greater probability (less than 1.0%) of serious complication from general anesthetics was revealed. On the benefit side, ECochG added significant information to the diagnoses of 87.8% of the children and 34.2% of the adults, and in 48.2% of the children and 2.0% of the adults this information was a primary factor in the hearing evaluation and decision on management. The cases for which ECochG was most helpful were predominantly children and neonates with complex neurological or psychiatric problems which interferred with reliable testing by other methods. Comparisons of ECochG with other methods were reported in 63.2% of the cases. The respondents judged 97.4% of these comparisons to reflect favorably on the validity of ECochG.

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Hearing evaluation device with noise detection and evaluation capability

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.2739177 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 121 (5) ◽

pp. 2490

Author(s):

Matthijs P. Smits ◽

Bryan P. Flaherty

Keyword(s):

Noise Detection ◽

Hearing Evaluation

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Emotional Disturbance in Hearing Clinic Patients

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.137.1.58 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 137 (1) ◽

pp. 58-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Burt Singerman ◽

Erwin Riedner ◽

Marshal Folstein

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Emotional Disturbance ◽

General Health ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Psychiatric Morbidity ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Vestibular Symptoms ◽

Hearing Evaluation

SummaryA group of outpatients scheduled for hearing evaluation were screened for psychiatric morbidity using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30). There was an association between objective hearing loss and elevated GHQ-30 score. An association was also found between the presence of tinnitus and vestibular symptoms and elevated GHQ-30 score.

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