scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on the auditory and vestibular system

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzieh Amiri ◽  
Mahdieh Hasanalifard ◽  
Maryam Delphi
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Vestibular System ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Direct Invasion ◽  
Communication Function ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Vestibular Symptoms

Background and Aim: The COVID-19 has affe­cted sensory organs in a different manner. This paper aimed to review the auditory-vestibular symptoms associated with COVID-19 and it also investigated the impacts of this pandemic on hearing-impaired community. Recent Findings: The existing studies related to the effects of COVID-19 on the auditory-vestibular system were reviewed and discussed in order to achieve the overall image of COVID-19 on this system. Moreover, due to the adverse effects of using a mask on the communication function of hearing-impaired people, the effects of the mask on the communication process of hearing-impaired people were also reviewed. Conclusion: COVID-19 may be accompanying with some auditory and vestibular dysfunctions. Although there are few findings in this area, they showed that the induced hearing loss is often sudden in nature and it is unclear that this situ­ation is because of the ototoxicity of virus treated drugs or not. The vertigo induced by COVID-19 can be a direct invasion of the virus or an inva­sion by the immune system and its association with hearing loss and tinnitus must be identified, and appropriate referrals should be considered. On the other hand, due to the adverse effects of using personal protective equipment such as masks on the communication performance of hearing-impaired people, the necessary advice and guidance in this field are provided to the medical staff. Keywords: COVID-19; hearing loss; hearing-impaired; vestibular dysfunction; mask

scholarly journals Hearing Level Comparison of Noisy and Silent Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
MM Moniruzzaman ◽  
Md Abdullah Al Harun ◽  
Salequzzaman ◽  
Md Khabir Uddin Patuary ◽  
Mohammad Shahrior Arafat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Mixed Type ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Hearing Level ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Head Neck Surgery

This prospective study was carried out in the Department of ENT and Head Neck Surgery, Sheikh Hasina medical college, Tangial, Bangladesh in a period of 6 months from January 2017 July 2017 among those complaining hearing loss attending in ENT out patient department. The aim of the study was to find the out pattern of hearing loss and hearing level comparison between noisy area (such as bazaar, bus stands, factory, school etc) to silent area. In this study 103 cases of hearing impaired people were taken and the data were collected by interviewing the cases as per questionnaire from history, examination and investigation report. Working place of most of the hearing impaired people was in noisy area 88 (85.4%). Among them most of the patients was male (58%) and female was (42%) and male:female ratio 1.4:1. The commonest type of hearing loss was sensorineural type. In the right ear 55 cases (53.4%) of sensorineural type deafness, 19 cases (18.4%) of mixed type of deafness and 21 cases (20.4%) of conductive type deafness. In the left ear 46 cases (47.7%) of sensorineural type deafness, 18 cases (17.5%) of mixed type deafness and 24 cases (23.3%) of conductive type deafness. This study showed that male (58%) were mostly affected than female (42%) and vehicle drivers (25.5%) were commonest group of people. From this study we got both ears were involved by disease process in 77.6% of patients and only right ear was 14.6% and only left ear was 10% of the patient of hearing loss. Bangladesh J Otorhinolaryngol; October 2017; 23(2): 159-163

INFLUENCE OF HEARING DECLINE ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN ELDERLY AND SENIER AGE PATIENTS AND ITS ASSESSMENT AFTER COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION (LITERATURE REVIEW)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1174-1180
Author(s):  
С. Б. Сугарова ◽  
В. Е. Кузовков ◽  
Р. К. Кантемирова ◽  
С. В. Лиленко ◽  
Д. С. Луппов ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Postoperative Period ◽  
Cochlear Implantation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Impaired People

Изучение влияния кохлеарной имплантации на когнитивную функцию (КФ) является актуальной проблемой, так как в мире увеличивается популяция людей пожилого и старческого возраста, которые, как правило, имеют те или иные нарушения слуха. Возрастная потеря слуха является одним из наиболее распространенных нарушений здоровья, связанных со старением, от которого страдают /людей старше 70 лет. Однако лишь немногие взрослые проходят тестирование на потерю слуха, и еще меньше подвергаются лечению. Известно, что утрата слуха - наиболее распространенный сенсорный дефицит - формирует предпосылки для сужения диапазона КФ у лиц пожилого возраста и может служить фактором, ускоряющим прогрессирование когнитивных изменений. Нами проведен анализ имеющихся исследований влияния снижения слуха и кохлеарной имплантации на КФ. Выявлено, что в большинстве своем они имели малую выборку, результаты не подвергались необходимому статистическому анализу, а использованные тесты были не адаптированы для слабослышащих людей. Проведя анализ разных тестов для оценки КФ, были отобраны тесты HI-MoCA и RBANS-H, которые адаптированы для слабослышащих людей, что позволило достоверно оценить когнитивную функцию в пред-и послеоперационном периодах, а также проследить влияние кохлеарной имплантации на КФ в послеоперационном периоде. The study of the effect of cochlear implantation on cognitive function is an urgent problem, since the world is increasing the population of elderly and senile people who, as a rule, have certain hearing impairments. Age-related hearing loss is one of the most common health problems associated with aging, affecting two-thirds of people over the age of 70. However, few adults are tested for hearing loss, and even fewer are being treated. It is known that hearing loss - the most common sensory defi cit-forms the prerequisites for narrowing the range of cognitive functions in the elderly and can serve as a factor accelerating the progression of cognitive changes. We analyzed the available research on the effects of hearing loss and cochlear implantation on cognitive function. It was revealed that for the most part, they had a small sample, the results were not subjected to the necessary statistical analysis, and the tests used were not adapted for hearing impaired people. After analyzing different tests for assessing cognitive function, HI-MoCA and RBANS-H tests were selected, which are adapted for hearing impaired people, which will allow to reliably assess cognitive function in the pre- and postoperative period, as well as to trace the effect of cochlear implantation on cognitive function in postoperative period.

Cocleo-labirintopatie nel bambino

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 650-654
Author(s):  
Irene Bona ◽  
Claudia Sciarrotta ◽  
Dante Ferrara ◽  
Giovanni Corsello
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Vestibular System ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Etiological Agent ◽  
Flow Chart ◽  
Diagnostic Approach ◽  
Balance Disorders ◽  
Paediatric Age ◽  
Vestibular Symptoms

Cochleo-labyrinthopathy (CL) is an affection that in-volves cochlea and vestibular system. It occurs with the association of auditory symptoms (sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus), vestibular symptoms (objective vertigo, unidirectional horizontal-rotary nystagmus and static or dynamic balance disorders) and neurovegetative signs (nausea, vomiting, pallor, sweating). The diagnosis may be difficult in paediatric age since the child is unable to clearly express their discomfort and symptoms. Multiple causes have been recognized but, in acute cases, infection is the most frequent etiological agent. The paper de-scribes a case of CL due to Herpes Virus 1-2 infection responsive to acyclovir and reports a flow-chart for the diagnostic approach to the vertiginous syndromes in children.

scholarly journals A review of the challenges facing people with hearing loss during the COVID-19 outbreak: toward the understanding the helpful solutions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Tavanai ◽  
Nematollah Rouhbakhsh ◽  
Zohreh Roghani
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Behavioral Challenges ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Background and Aim: COVID-19 is a pandemic infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus has made dramatic changes in people's individual, family, and social lifestyle. Most countries have implemented some regulations including wearing face masks, face shields, and gloves and physical, and social distance in public places to reduce the spread of the virus. However, these global recommendations may be associated with significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges for hearing-impaired people. This review explains the problems that hearingimpaired people may experience in the COVID19 outbreak and also some helpful solutions that can be implemented by audiologists, healthcare professionals, and other members of the society that somehow interact with these people in such conditions that communication barriers increase. Recent Findings: Recent findings indicate that wearing face masks, physical, and social distancing, e-learning and virtual communications during COVID-19 pandemic have provided some problems for people with hearing loss. This can, in turn, have negative consequences including increased feelings of loneliness, isolation and also some limitations in access to educational materials and rehabilitation training of lockdowns of schools and rehabilitation centers or some challenges of online learning at home. Conclusion: People with hearing loss may experience problems during COVID-19 pandemic. There are some strategies that can be implemented to partially solve some communicative and social problems in this group. The use of transparent face masks, compensatory strategies, as well as optimization of virtual, and telehealth, telerehabilitation and tele-education services can be helpful for hearing-impaired people during this pandemic era.   Keywords: COVID-19; face mask; social distancing; hearing-impaired people; communication; compensatory strategies

scholarly journals Mobile Hearing Aid

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 649-651
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Hearing Disability ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Android App

This is about developing an android app for replicating the mechanism of hearing aid machine. Majority of the Hearing Impaired people cannot afford hearing aids due to higher cost of the Instruments. Similarly Audiometry Test for assessing the Deafness levels are also costly. Affordable Smartphone are available with majority of the Hearing Impaired people in Indian. So, we propose a Mobile Application which consists of the following three Features. This APP enables Ear phones of Phone to function as Hearing Aid for people with hearing disability. This APP converts speech to Text so that Hearing impaired people can know what other people are talking without using SIGN Language. This APP provides Pure-Tone AudiometryTest to assess level of Hearing Loss.

Teacher Identification of Elementary School Children with Hearing Loss

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Nodar
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Teacher Screening ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Problems

The teachers of 2231 elementary school children were asked to identify those with known or suspected hearing problems. Following screening, the data were compared. Teachers identified 5% of the children as hearing-impaired, while screening identified only 3%. There was agreement between the two procedures on 1%. Subsequent to the teacher interviews, rescreening and tympanometry were conducted. These procedures indicated that teacher screening and tympanometry were in agreement on 2% of the total sample or 50% of the hearing-loss group. It was concluded that teachers could supplement audiometry, particularly when otoscopy and typanometry are not available.

The impact of hearing loss

ORL ro ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Mădălina Georgescu ◽  
Violeta Necula ◽  
Sebastian Cozma
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening ◽  
Newborn Hearing ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
The Impact

Hearing loss represents a frequently met sensorial handicap, which has a major and complex impact not only on the hearing-impaired person, but also on his family and society. The large number of hard-of-hearing persons justifies the acknowledgement of hearing loss as a public health issue, which oblige to appropriate health politics, to offer each hearing-impaired person health services like those in Europe. These can be obtained through: appropriate legislation for mandatory universal newborn hearing screening; national program for follow-up of hearing-impaired children up to school age; national register of hard-of-hearing persons; smooth access to rehabilitation methods; appropriate number of audiologists, trained for health services at European standards, trained through public programs of education in the field of audiology.  

scholarly journals 3D Avatar Approach for Continuous Sign Movement Using Speech/Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3439
Author(s):  
Debashis Das Chakladar ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Shubham Mandal ◽  
Partha Pratim Roy ◽  
Masakazu Iwamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Learning System ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Indian Sign Language ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
3D Avatar

Sign language is a visual language for communication used by hearing-impaired people with the help of hand and finger movements. Indian Sign Language (ISL) is a well-developed and standard way of communication for hearing-impaired people living in India. However, other people who use spoken language always face difficulty while communicating with a hearing-impaired person due to lack of sign language knowledge. In this study, we have developed a 3D avatar-based sign language learning system that converts the input speech/text into corresponding sign movements for ISL. The system consists of three modules. Initially, the input speech is converted into an English sentence. Then, that English sentence is converted into the corresponding ISL sentence using the Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique. Finally, the motion of the 3D avatar is defined based on the ISL sentence. The translation module achieves a 10.50 SER (Sign Error Rate) score.

Designing ICT Applications for Hearing-Impaired People in Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Bhutkar ◽  
Yohannes Kurniawan ◽  
Johan Johan ◽  
Dhananjay Bhole ◽  
Shrikant Salve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Impaired People
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