Housing for hearing devices or hearing aids

2007 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 1285
Author(s):  
Erich Dittli
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hearing Devices

Foundations of Language Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Dani Levine ◽  
Daniela Avelar ◽  
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff ◽  
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek ◽  
Derek M. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Language Input ◽  
Hearing Children

Copious evidence indicates that, even in the first year of life, children’s language development is beginning and is impacted by a wide array of cognitive and social processes. The extent to which these processes are dependent on early language input is a critical concern for most deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, who, unlike hearing children, are usually not immersed in a language-rich environment until effective interventions, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, are implemented. Importantly, some cognitive and social processes are not dependent on the early availability of language input and begin to develop before children are fitted for hearing aids or cochlear implants. Interventions involving parent training may be helpful for enhancing social underpinnings of language and for maximizing DHH children’s language learning once effective hearing devices are in place. Similarly, cognitive training for DHH children may also provide benefit to bolster language development.

scholarly journals Totally Implantable Hearing Devices

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
Mohan Kameswaran ◽  
S Raghunandhan
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Auditory Rehabilitation ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Implantable Hearing Aids

Abstract Hearing aids are the principal means of auditory rehabilitation for patients with moderate to severe sensori-neural hearing loss. Although technical improvements and modifications have improved the fidelity of conventional aids, hearing aids still have many limitations including the inherent self consciousness and social stigma attached to visible hearing aids. The recently introduced totally implantable hearing aids offer patients with hearing loss several potential advantages over conventional hearing aids. This article reviews the indications, surgical procedure, advantages and the current status of totally implantable hearing devices.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Hearing Aid Adoption

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 006-020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Jorgensen ◽  
Michelle Novak
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Predictive Factors ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Consumer Knowledge ◽  
Increase Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Hearing Devices

AbstractIn the field of audiology, change is inevitable: changes in technologies with hearing devices, changes in consumer knowledge, and changes in consumer-driven solutions. With these changes, the audiologist must adapt to meet the needs of the consumer. There are potential predictors that the audiologist could use to determine who is more likely to pursue and use amplification; by using these data, the audiologists may increase their productivity and increase patient satisfaction. The goal of this article is to investigate the MarkeTrak 10 (MT10) data to determine the trends in adoption and use of hearing aids as well as examine predictive factors that can be used to determine hearing aid adoption.

scholarly journals Reconfigurable Filter Bank Design Techniques for Hearing Aid Performance Improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Filter Bank ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hardware Complexity ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Human Function ◽  
And Performance

Hearing is one of the most crucial sense for human beings as it connects them to external world. Hearing loss impairs communication which is an essential human function. Hearing disability has massive negative impact on life, work, physical and emotional well-being as well as relationships and is rated as the third most common health problem affecting relations and quality of life. Hearing aid devices can selectively intensify sound signals in order to suit the hearing characteristics of the patients and is a boon for people with hearing misfortune. However, there is a huge gap between the potential and actual hearing aid users. This work provides a critical look into the various challenges posed by hearing aid users, the comparative of the existing state-of-art hearing devices and throws light on bottlenecks in hearing aid design and performance. Filter bank, being the holy grail of Digital Hearing aid, needs special attention for improving the hearing aid performance. Reconfigurability is the need of the hour for providing flexible and tailormade hearing aids that can suit individual hearing requirements. The paper discusses and gives an in-depth insight into the techniques for reconfigurable Filter bank design for performance augmentationin terms of parameters like Signal quality, Auditory compensation, Computational and Hardware complexity, area, speed, power, etc.

scholarly journals Hearing Aid Treatment in Patients with Mixed Hearing Loss. Part I: Expected Benefit and Limitations after Stapes Surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Nina Wardenga ◽  
Victoria Diedrich ◽  
Bernd Waldmann ◽  
Thomas Lenarz ◽  
Hannes Maier
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Middle Ear ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Stapes Surgery ◽  
Pure Tone Average ◽  
Mixed Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Middle Ear Implants

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to determine the fraction of patients with mixed hearing loss who can or cannot expect benefit from power hearing aids (HAs) after stapes surgery. Design: The audiological outcome of 374 stapes surgeries was used to calculate the patients’ individual postoperative requirements in terms of gain and output of HAs. These requirements were compared to the available gain and output provided by state-of-the-art power HAs at 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 kHz. According to these comparisons, ears were divided into three groups. For G0, required gain and output lay within the corresponding technical limits of the HAs at all frequencies. In G1, one or both requirements could not be fulfilled at 1 frequency. G2 combined all ears where the requirements lay beyond the HA’s technical limitations at 2 or more frequencies. Results: Stapes surgery resulted in an improvement of air-bone gap (ABG) in 84.5% of the cases by 15.7 dB on average. Based on pure-tone average (0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0 kHz), 40.6% of all cases showed an ABG ≤10 dB. 44.9% of all cases did no longer need a HA after stapes surgery. A power HA would fulfill both audiological criteria at all 4 frequencies in 81.6% of cases that needed a HA postoperatively. However, 18.4% would not be sufficiently treatable at 1 or more frequencies (15.0% in G1, 3.4% in G2). Conclusions: The present study identified a subset of patients with mixed hearing loss after stapes surgery that cannot be treated sufficiently with available power HAs. As the residual ABG is an important reason for this lack of treatment success, the advancement of alternative hearing devices that circumvent the middle ear, such as powerful active middle ear implants, is indicated.

Auditory Outcomes with Hearing Rehabilitation in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 157 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swathi Appachi ◽  
Jessica. L. Specht ◽  
Nikhila Raol ◽  
Judith E. C. Lieu ◽  
Michael S. Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Sound Localization ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Bone Conduction ◽  
Unilateral Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Rehabilitation ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Bone Conduction Hearing ◽  
Speech Recognition In Noise

Objective Options for management of unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in children include conventional hearing aids, bone-conduction hearing devices, contralateral routing of signal (CROS) aids, and frequency-modulating (FM) systems. The objective of this study was to systematically review the current literature to characterize auditory outcomes of hearing rehabilitation options in UHL. Data Sources PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library were searched from inception to January 2016. Manual searches of bibliographies were also performed. Review Methods Studies analyzing auditory outcomes of hearing amplification in children with UHL were included. Outcome measures included functional and objective auditory results. Two independent reviewers evaluated each abstract and article. Results Of the 249 articles identified, 12 met inclusion criteria. Seven articles solely focused on outcomes with bone-conduction hearing devices. Outcomes favored improved pure-tone averages, speech recognition thresholds, and sound localization in implanted patients. Five studies focused on FM systems, conventional hearing aids, or CROS hearing aids. Limited data are available but suggest a trend toward improvement in speech perception with hearing aids. FM systems were shown to have the most benefit for speech recognition in noise. Studies evaluating CROS hearing aids demonstrated variable outcomes. Conclusions Data evaluating functional and objective auditory measures following hearing amplification in children with UHL are limited. Most studies do suggest improvement in speech perception, speech recognition in noise, and sound localization with a hearing rehabilitation device.

scholarly journals Are open-fit hearing aids a possible alternative to bone-anchored hearing devices in patients with mild to severe hearing loss? A preliminary trial

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Amberley V. Ostevik ◽  
Rachel Caissie ◽  
Janine Verge ◽  
Mark Gulliver ◽  
William E. Hodgetts
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Severe Hearing Loss ◽  
Preliminary Trial ◽  
Hearing Devices

Experiences with Implantable Hearing Devices and a Presentation of a New Device

1986 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Hough ◽  
Jack Vernon ◽  
Kenneth Dormer ◽  
Bob Johnson ◽  
Tom Himelick
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ear ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
New Device ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Bone Stimulator ◽  
External Canal ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Hearing Device

Following animal experiments, anatomic examinations, and histologic studies, an implantable hearing device was developed. This device, the temporal bone stimulator (TBS), uses an inductive coil without percutaneous connection that transmits bone-conducted vibrations to the inner ear. Ten patients have been implanted and followed by the Central Ear Research Institute. The TBS is effective and may have wide application in producing amplification in good sound fidelity when used in patients who have external canal, middle ear, or eustachian tube disease that is poorly corrected by surgery or conventional hearing aids. The utilization of similar principles of electromagnetic transfer of energy directly to the ossicles appears reasonable and is potentially highly rewarding for those who have sensorineural hearing impairments with thresholds greater than 40 dB. The enormous potential benefits derived from the application of these implantable hearing devices is worthy of the greatest effort in future otologic investigation.

scholarly journals Decision making in auditory externalization perception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Baumgartner ◽  
Piotr Majdak
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Perceptual Inference ◽  
Inference Problem ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Error Accumulation

AbstractUnder natural listening conditions, humans perceptually attribute sounds to external objects in their environment. This core function of perceptual inference is often distorted when sounds are produced via hearing devices such as headphones or hearing aids, resulting in sources being perceived unrealistically close or even inside the head. Psychoacoustic studies suggest a mixed role of various cues contributing to the externalization process. We developed a model framework able to probe the contribution of cue-specific prediction errors and to contrast dynamic versus static decision strategies underlying externalization perception. The model was applied to various acoustic distortions with constant reverberation. Our results suggest that the decisions follow a static, weighted accumulation of prediction errors for both monaural and interaural spectral shapes, without a significant contribution of other auditory cues. The weighted error accumulation supports generalizability of predictive processing theory to the perceptual inference problem of spatial hearing.Impact StatementA static rather than dynamic weighting of sensory prediction errors explains the inability to attribute auditory sensations to external sound sources.

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