The occlusion effect in unilateral versus bilateral hearing aids

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 763-773

  Jespersen, Charlotte Thunberg ^a,b   Groth, Jennifer ^a,b   Kiessling, Jürgen ^c   Brenner, Barbara ^c   Jensen, Ole Dyrlund ^a,b  

^a GN ReSound Group   (Denmark)

^b GN Resound as   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral fitting; Conventional venting; Hearing aids; Novel venting; Subjective occlusion effect; Unilateral fitting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MONAURAL HEARING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EAR CANAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845327486     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.10.7     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Allen RL, Schwab BM, Cranford JL, Carpenter MD. (2000) Investigation of binaural interference in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired adults. J Am Acad Audiol 11:494-500.
2. Arlinger S, Brorsson B, Lagerbring C, Leijon A, Rosenhall U, Scherstén T. (2003) Benefit of two hearing aids compared to one. In: Hearing Aids for Adults: Benefits and Costs. Stockholm: Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, 63-64 [in Swedish]. English summary at http://www.sbu.se/Filer/Content1/publikationer/1/ hearingslut.pdf.
3. Balfour P, Hawkins D. (1992) A comparison of sound quality judgements for monaural and binaural hearing aid processed stimuli. Ear Hear 13:331-339.
4. Brooks D, Bulmer D. (1981) Survey of binaural hearing aid users. Ear Hear 2:220-224.
5. Browning DG, Gatehouse S. (1988) Benefit from binaural hearing aids in individuals with a severe hearing impairment. Br J Audiol 22:273-277.
6. Brügel FJ, Schorn K, Hofer R. (1992) What improvements can be gained by additional boring in hearing aid fitting? Laryngorhinootologie 71:79-82.
7. Byrne D. (1980) Binaural hearing aid fitting: research findings and clinical application. In: Libby ER, ed. Binaural Hearing and Amplification. Chicago: Zenetron, 23-73.
8. Byrne D. (1981) Clinical issues and options in binaural hearing aid fitting. Ear Hear 2:187-193.
9. Davies JE, John DG, Stephens SD. (1991) Intermediate hearing tests as predictors of hearing aid acceptance. Clin Otolaryngol 16:76-83.
10. Davis A. (2003) Population study of the ability to benefit from amplification and the provision of a hearing aid in 55-74-year-old first-time hearing aid users. Int J Audiol 42(Suppl. 2):2S39-52.
11. Dermody P, Byrne D. (1975) Loudness summation with binaural hearing aids. Scand Audiol 2:23-28.
12. Dillon H. (2001) Binaural and bilateral considerations in hearing aid fitting. In: Hearing Aids. New York: Thieme, 370-403.
13. Dillon H, Birtles G, Lovegrove R. (1999) Measuring the outcomes of a national rehabilitation program: normative data for the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) and the Hearing Aid User's Questionnaire (HAUQ). J Am Acad Audiol 10:67-79.
14. Erdman S, Sedge R. (1981) Subjective comparisons of binaural versus monaural amplification. Ear Hear 2:225-229.
15. French-Saint George M, Barr-Hamilton RM. (1978) Relief of the occluded ear sensation to improve earmold comfort. J Am Audiol Soc 4:30-35.
16. Hall J, Harvey A. (1985) Diotic loudness summation in normal and hearing-impaired hearing. J Speech Lang Hear Res 28:445-448.
17. Hawkins D, Prosek R, Walden B, Montgomery A. (1987) Binaural loudness summation in the hearing impaired. J Speech Lang Hear Res 30:37-43.
18. Jerram JC, Purdy SC. (2001) Technology, expectations, and adjustment to hearing loss: predictors of hearing aid outcome. J Am Acad Audiol 12:64-79.
19. Kaplan H, Pickett J. (1981) Effects of dichotic/diotic versus monotic presentation on speech understanding in noise in elderly hearing impaired listeners. Ear Hear 2:202-207.
20. Kiessling J, Brenner B, Jespersen CT, Groth J, Jensen OD. (2005) Occlusion effect of earmolds with different venting systems. J Am Acad Audiol 16:237-249.
21. Köbler S, Rosenhall U. (2002) Horizontal localization and speech intelligibility with bilateral and unilateral hearing aid amplification. Int J Audiol 41:395-400.
22. Kochkin S. (2000a) MarkeTrack V. Why my hearing aids are in the drawer: the consumer's perspective. Hear J 53(2):34-42.
23. Kochkin S. (2000b) Binaural Hearing Aids: The Fitting Choice for Bilateral Loss Subjects. Knowles Electronics: Itasca, IL.
24. Kuk FK. (1991) Perceptual consequence of vents in hearing aids. Br J Audiol 25:163-169.
25. MacKenzie K, Browning GG, McClymont LG. (1989) Relationship between earmould venting, comfort and feedback. Br J Audiol 23:335-337.
26. Noble W, Sinclair S, Byrne D. (1998) Improvement in aided sound localization with open earmolds: observations in people with high-frequency hearing loss. J Am Acad Audiol 9:25-34.
27. Ross M. (1980) Binaural versus monaural hearing aid amplification for hearing impaired individuals. In: Libby ER, ed. Binaural Hearing and Amplification. Chicago: Zenetron, 1-21.
28. Silman S, Gelfand S, Silverman C. (1984) Late-onset auditory deprivation: effects of monaural versus binaural hearing aids. J Acoust Soc Am 76:1357-1362.
29. Stephens SD, Callaghan DE, Hogan S, Meredith R, Rayment A, Davis A. (1991) Acceptability of binaural hearing aids: a cross-over study. J R Soc Med 84:267-269.
30. Stephens SD, Meredith R, Callaghan DE, Hogan S, Rayment A. (1990) Early intervention and rehabilitation: factors influencing outcome. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 476:221-225.
31. Surr R, Hawkins D. (1988) New hearing aid users' perception of the "hearing aid effect." Ear Hear 9(3):113-118.