Acclimatization to hearing aids

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-212

  Dawes, Piers ^a   Munro, Kevin J ^a,b   Kalluri, Sridhar ^c   Edwards, Brent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Starkey Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Hearing aids; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL HEARING LOSS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894540347     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3182a8eda4     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Akeroyd, M. A. (2008). Are individual differences in speech reception related to individual differences in cognitive ability? A survey of twenty experimental studies with normal and hearing-impaired adults. Int J Audiol, 47(Suppl 2), S53-S71
2. ANSI S3.5. (1997). American National Standard Methods for the Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index. New York: ANSI
3. Arlinger, S., Gatehouse, S., Bentler, R. A., et al. (1996). Report of the Eriksholm Workshop on auditory deprivation and acclimatization. Ear Hear, 17(3 Suppl), 87S-98S
4. Bentler, R. A., Niebuhr, D. P., Getta, J. P., et al. (1993a). Longitudinal study of hearing aid effectiveness. I: Objective measures. J Speech Hear Res, 36, 808-819
5. Bentler, R. A., Niebuhr, D. P., Getta, J. P., et al. (1993b). Longitudinal study of hearing aid effectiveness. II: Subjective measures. J Speech Hear Res, 36, 820-831
6. British Society of Audiology and the British Academy of Audiology. (2008). Guidance on the Use of real Ear Measurement to Verify the Fitting of Digital Signal Processing Hearing Aids. Available at: Http://www. thebsa.org.uk/index.php?option=com-content&view=category&layout= blog&id=7&Itemid=16
7. Burgess, M. A., Utley, W. A. (1984). Reverberation times in British living rooms. Appl Acoust, 18, 369-380
8. Cox, R. M., & Alexander, G. C. (1992). Maturation of hearing aid benefit: Objective and subjective measurements. Ear Hear, 13, 131-141
9. Cox, R. M., Alexander, G. C., Taylor, I. M., et al. (1996). Benefit acclimatization in elderly hearing aid users. J Am Acad Audiol, 7, 428-441
10. Deary, I. J., & Der, G. (2005). Reaction time, age and cognitive ability: Longitudinal findings from age 16 to 63 years in representative population samples. Aging, Neuropsychol Cogn, 12, 187-215
11. Dillon, H., Byrne, D., Brewer, S., et al. (1998). NAL NonlinearVersion 1.01 User Manual. Chatswood, Australia: National Acoustics Laboratories
12. Foster, J. R., & Haggard, M. P. (1979). FAAF. An effective analytical test of speech perception. Proc Inst Acoust, 182, 9-12
13. Foster, J. R., & Haggard, M. P. (1987). The four alternative auditory feature test (FAAF)-linguistic and psychometric properties of the material with normative data in noise. Br J Audiol, 21, 165-174
14. Gatehouse, S. (1989). Apparent auditory deprivation effects of late onset: The role of presentation level. J Acoust Soc Am, 86, 2103-2106
15. Gatehouse, S. (1992). The time course and magnitude of perceptual acclimatization to frequency responses: Evidence from monaural fitting of hearing aids. J Acoust Soc Am, 92, 1258-1268
16. Gatehouse, S. (1993). Role of perceptual acclimatization in the selection of frequency responses for hearing aids. J Am Acad Audiol, 4, 296-306
17. Gatehouse, S. (1998). Speech tests as measures of outcome. Scand Audiol Suppl, 49, 54-60
18. Gatehouse, S., & Noble, W. (2004). The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ). Int J Audiol, 43, 85-99
19. Hawkins, D., Alvarez, E., Houlihan, J. (1991). Reliability of three types of probe tube measurements. Hear Instrum, 42, 14-16
20. Horwitz, A. R., & Turner, C. W. (1997). The time course of hearing aid benefit. Ear Hear, 18, 1-11
21. Humes, L. E., & Wilson, D. L. (2003). An examination of changes in hearing-Aid performance and benefit in the elderly over a 3-year period of hearing-Aid use. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 46, 137-145
22. Humes, L. E., Wilson, D. L., Barlow, N. N., et al. (2002). Changes in hearing-Aid benefit following 1 or 2 years of hearing-Aid use by older adults. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 45, 772-782
23. Kuk, F. K., Potts, L., Valente, M., et al. (2003). Evidence of acclimatization in persons with severe-To-profound hearing loss. J Am Acad Audiol, 14, 84-99
24. MacDonald, S. W., Li, S. C., Bäckman, L. (2009). Neural underpinnings of within-person variability in cognitive functioning. Psychol Aging, 24, 792-808
25. Mueller, H. G., & Powers, T. A. (2001). Consideration of auditory acclimatization in the prescriptive fitting of hearing aids. Semin Hear, 22, 103-124
26. Munro, K. J. (2008). Reorganization of the adult auditory system: Perceptual and physiological evidence from monaural fitting of hearing aids. Trends Amplif, 12, 254-271
27. Munro, K. J., & Lutman, M. E. (2003). The effect of speech presentation level on measurement of auditory acclimatization to amplified speech. J Acoust Soc Am, 114, 484-495
28. Munro, K. J., & Lutman, M. E. (2004). Self-reported outcome in new hearing aid users over a 24-week post-fitting period. Int J Audiol, 43, 555-562
29. Palmer, C. V., Nelson, C. T., Lindley, G. A. IV. (1998). The functionally and physiologically plastic adult auditory system. J Acoust Soc Am, 103, 1705-1721
30. Pearsons, K. S., Bennett, R. L., Fidell, S. (1977). Speech Levels in Various Environments (EPA-600/1-77-025). Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency
31. Reber, M. B., & Komopis, M. (2005). Acclimatization in first-Time hearing aid users using three different fitting protocols. Auris Nasis Larynx, 32, 345-351
32. Robinson, D. W. (1991). Long-Term repeatability of the pure-Tone hearing threshold and its relation to noise exposure. Br J Audiol, 25, 219-235
33. Rönnberg, J., Rudner, M., Foo, C., et al. (2008). Cognition counts: A working memory system for ease of language understanding (ELU). Int J Audiol, 47 Suppl 2, S99-105
34. Salthouse, T. A. (1996). The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Psychol Rev, 103, 403-428
35. Saunders, G. H., & Cienkowski, K. M. (1997). Acclimatization to hearing aids. Ear Hear, 18, 129-139
36. Taubman, L. B., Palmer, C. V., Durrant, J. D., et al. (1999). Accuracy of hearing aid use time as reported by experienced hearing aid wearers. Ear Hear, 20, 299-305
37. Taylor, K. S. (1993). Self-perceived and audiometric evaluations of hearing aid benefit in the elderly. Ear Hear, 14, 390-394
38. Turner, C. W., & Bentler, R. A. (1998). Does hearing aid benefit increase over time? J Acoust Soc Am, 104, 3673-3674
39. Turner, C. W., Humes, L. E., Bentler, R. A., et al. (1996). A review of past research on changes in hearing aid benefit over time. Ear Hear, 17(3 Suppl), 14S-25S
40. Tyler, R. S., & Summerfield, A. Q. (1996). Cochlear implantation: Relationships with research on auditory deprivation and acclimatization. Ear Hear, 17(3 Suppl), 38S-50S
41. Wechsler, D. (1997). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd ed.). Oxford: Pearson Assessment
42. Yund, E. W., Roup, C. M., Simon, H. J., et al. (2006). Acclimatization in wide dynamic range multichannel compression and linear amplification hearing aids. J Rehabil Res Dev, 43, 517-536