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Filter by:The cochlear implant represents the gold standard in the treatment of children with bilateral severe-profound deafness. However, the current Italian and international guidelines do not address the issue of rehabilitation and how the different rehabilitation methods should be applied in relation to the different clinical pictures. The aim of this study is therefore to describe which methods are used today in the rehabilitation of deaf children with cochlear implants followed at the Phoniatrics and Speech Therapy service of the A. Gemelli Polyclinic Foundation. The creation of a questionnaire directed to the speech therapist who treats the specific patient is available in order to collect data concerning the characteristics of the setting and the rehabilitation method in relation to the most applied methodologies, i.e. Auditory-verbal therapy, oral-cognitive therapy, bimodal method and the Drežančić method.
Knowledge about how to manage hearing aids is an important factor in hearing aid success, but studies show that this knowledge ranges from good to poor, even among experienced adult hearing aid users. Information leaflets is a common tool in healthcare to give information with the purpose to increase theoretical knowledge and change behaviour, and illustrations in these leaflets can provide additional understanding for all kinds of patients. The primary aim of this aural rehabiliation study was to evaluate participants' knowledge about placement in a noisy environment, directional microphone and telecoil function at baseline and postintervention and assessing their perceptions of the benefits of an information leaflet. Additional aim was to investigate whether, an information leaflet with illustrations and accompanying text about hearing aid functions have additional effects on participants' knowledge compared to an information leaflet without illustrations.
The language environment that influences the child's language development has been studied using different subjective tools, mainly audio and/or video recording and manual transcriptions. The linguistic results of the implanted deaf child are dependent on the age at the implant, but also on the auditory and linguistic stimulation in the first months following the placement of the implant. Parents are the main actors in the child's language development. Professionals can rely on the LENA tool: Language ENvironment Analysis, which objectifies the language environment of the child at home in his daily environment. It is possible to obtain statistics on the number of adult words received by the child, the number of words produced by the child as well as the exposure to media and noise. On the basis of this quantitative data, the family can be supported in an attempt to optimize the conditions for receiving their child's speech. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of speech therapy parental support using the data provided by the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) tool, in a pediatric population implanted early, i.e. before the age of 18 months and aged under 24 months inclusive at the start of their participation in the study.
The goal of this Natural History Study for Charcot-Marie-Tooth is to acquire, record, and analyze patient-reported data and associated genetic reports, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and clinical notes to identify the burden, diagnostic journey, and prevalence of disease that will aid scientists in their work toward finding a cure. Participants will be asked to complete a Natural History Survey.
In this study, patients with aged-related hearing loss with depression and without depression were evaluated by audiometry (pure tone audiometry and speech audiometry), cognitive function assessment (MMSE scale for simple mental state test, MoCA Scale for Montreal Cognitive Assessment), and depressive symptoms assessment (GDS-15 and HAMD), resting state EEG. The ananlysis of resting state EEG included power spectral density, traceability analysis, functional connectivity, microstate, clustering coefficient, characteristic path length, characteristic path permeability, and compatibility coefficient. EEG signals were used to explore the activation of brain regions and poor connectivity of brain regions affected by cognitive reserve dissonance on the level of brain imaging. This paper innovatively explores the influence of cognitive reserve dissonance on depressive mood in senile deafness by means of audiological assessment, cognitive function assessment, depression symptom assessment, resting state electroencephalography (EEG) and other technical means. Auditory and cognitive cortical activation, functional connectivity of brain regions, small-world attributes and microstates were analyzed in senile deafness with or without depression at the brain imaging level.
Despite the success of cochlear implants, devices surgically placed in the inner ears of patients with severe hearing loss, there remains substantial variability in the overall speech perception outcomes for the children and adults who receive them. The main goals of this project are: i) to improve our understanding of how cochlear implants affect the developing auditory system, ii) apply that knowledge to test new methods for programming children and adults, and iii) to study how long it takes listeners to adapt to new cochlear implant programs over the short- and long-term. The results will improve our understanding of how the deafened auditory system develops with cochlear implant stimulation and advance clinical practice to improve hearing outcomes in cochlear implant listeners.
The aim of this proposed project is to understand whether direct to consumer (DTC) hearing aids programmed to individual hearing losses, can reduce listening effort for effective communication. If DTC aids can provide benefits beyond amplification, then they could be an affordable option to reduce barriers to care and improve hearing aid uptake in adults with hearing loss.
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out the role of background factors and gaze use in children's speechreading performance. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Which background factors and eye gaze patterns are associated with the best speechreading results in hearing children and those with hearing impairment/loss? - Are children's gaze patterns and facial expression discrimination associated with interpretation of emotional contents of verbal messages in speechreading? - What is the efficacy of intervention that is based on the use of a speechreading application to be developed? Participants will be - tested with linguistic and cognitive tests and tasks - tested with a speechreading test and tasks with or without simultaneous eye-tracking - about half of the participants with hearing impairment/loss will train speechreading with an application Researchers will compare the different age groups and the results of hearing children to those of children with impaired hearing to see if there are differences.
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is one of the most common emergencies in otorhinolaryngology, and its incidence is increasing year by year and tends to be younger. At present, the pathogenesis of sudden deafness is not clear and the individual treatment effects vary significantly. In order to break through this specific treatment bottleneck, this project pioneered the clinical application of the co-regulator nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) in the treatment of sudden deafness. Therefore, this project intends to use pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, tinnitus disability scale THI, tinnitus subjective visual analog score method VAS, ear fullness subjective visual analog score method VAS for data analysis, and explore the safety of coenzyme I for injection on sudden deafness and efficacy assessment.
The reason for this clinical trial is to test different ways of carrying out hearing tests to be able to detect for hearing loss within the hospital and at home. Pathway 1: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether video game hearing tests work well to detect hearing loss caused by antibiotics at home in patients with long-term lung infections. Pathway 2: The goal of this clinical trial is to compare tablet-based (iPad) hearing tests with formal sound booth hearing tests in patients attending hospital outpatient clinics. Pathway 3: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether audio-training improves listening to speech in the presence of background noise. Researchers will compare participants receiving audio-training with those who did not receive audio-training. This will test if audio-training can improve participant's everyday listening experiences.