Understanding the speech-understanding problems of older adults

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-305

  Humes, Larry E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Amplification or hearing aids; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

AGED; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84891043737     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2013/12-0066)     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Akeroyd, M. (2008). Are individual differences in speech reception related to individual differences in cognitive ability? A survey of twenty experimental studies with normal and hearingimpaired adults. International Journal of Audiology, 47(Suppl. 2), 53-71.
2. Amos, N. E., & Humes, L. E. (2007). Contribution of high frequencies to speech recognition in quiet and noise among listeners with varying degrees of high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 819-834.
3. Committee on Hearing and Bioacoustics and Biomechanics. (1988). Speech understanding and aging. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83, 859-895.
4. Cruickshanks, K. J. (2010). Epidemiology of age-related hearing impairment. In S. Gordon-Salant, R. D. Frisina, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), The aging auditory system: Perceptual characterization and neural bases of presbycusis (pp. 259-274). New York, NY: Springer.
5. Fogerty, D., Kewley-Port, D., & Humes, L. E. (2012). The relative importance of consonant and vowel segments to the recognition of words and sentences: Effects of age and hearing loss. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1667-1678.
6. Humes, L. E. (1996). Speech understanding in the elderly. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 7, 161-167.
7. Humes, L. E. (2002). Factors underlying the speech-recognition performance of elderly hearing-aid wearers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 1112-1132.
8. Humes, L. E. (2007). The contributions of audibility and cognitive factors to the benefit provided by amplified speech to older adults. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 18, 609-623.
9. Humes, L. E., Ahlstrom, J. B., Bratt, G. W., & Peek, B. F. (2009). Studies of hearing aid outcome measures in older adults: A comparison of technologies and an examination of individual differences. Seminars in Hearing, 30, 112-128.
10. Humes, L. E., Burk, M., Coughlin, M. P., Busey, T. A., & Strauser, L. E. (2007). Auditory speech-recognition and visual textrecognition measures in younger and older adults: Similarities and differences between modalities and the effects of presentation rate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 283-303.
11. Humes, L. E., & Coughlin, M. P. (2009). Aided speech-identification performance in single-talker competition by elderly hearingimpaired listeners. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 50, 485-494.
12. Humes, L. E., & Dubno, J. R. (2010). Factors affecting speech understanding in older adults. In S. Gordon-Salant, R. D. Frisina, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), The aging auditory system: Perceptual characterization and neural bases of presbycusis (pp. 211-258). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
13. Humes, L. E., Dubno, J. R., Gordon-Salant, S., Lister, J. J., Cacace, A. T., Cruickshanks, K. J., Gates, G. A.,. Wingfield, A. (2012). Central presbycusis: A review and evaluation of the evidence. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 23, 635-666.
14. Humes, L. E., Kinney, D. L., & Thompson, E. (2009). Comparison of benefits provided by various hearing aid technologies in older adults. In L. Hickson (Ed.), Hearing care for adults 2009: The challenge of aging (pp. 131-138). Stafa, Switzerland: Phonak AG.
15. Humes, L. E., & Krull, V. (2012). Evidence about the effectiveness of hearing aids in adults. In L. Wong & L. Hickson (Eds.), Evidence based practice in audiology (pp. 61-92). San Diego, CA: Plural.
16. Humes, L. E., Lee, J. H., & Coughlin, M. P. (2006). Auditory measures of selective and divided attention in young and elderly adults using single-talker competition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 2926-2937.
17. Kidd, G., & Humes, L. E. (2012). Effects of age and hearing loss on the recognition of interrupted words in isolation and in sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 1434-1448.
18. Lee, J. H., & Humes, L. E. (2012). Effect of fundamental-frequency and sentence-onset differences on speech-identification performance of young and older adults in a competing-talker background. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1700-1717.