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Filter by:Participants will be recruited by performing chart reviews of patients to be seen at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Ophthalmology and Optometry Clinic. A sample size of at least 30 patients is needed (60 eyes). Patients aged 55 and higher will be further evaluated to meet the inclusion criteria. Patients meeting inclusion criteria will be provided with informed consent to participate in the study before their office visit. Patients will receive a consent briefing then asked to sign and date the informed consent form. Participants will then be randomized to undergo an eye exam and refractive exam with noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones for one eye and without for the other eye. Participants will fill out a written survey asking them to rate the quality of the eye exam with and without headphones. Primary aim: Assess the quality improvement of Ophthalmic exam in geriatric patients with hearing loss with use of noise cancelling headphones with Bluetooth feature. Secondary aims: 1)Compare the response to the standardized questions with and without Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones to determine their effectiveness in conducting Ophthalmic refractive exam. 2) Explore the ease of conducting refractive exam as reported by provider.
23 candidates for BiCROS hearing aids will be recruited and fitted with a hearing aid and a CROS device. Following a real-world trial, each participant will be tested on a range of outcome measures including speech recognition in noise, ratings of listening effort, and ratings of preference.
More than half a billion people globally have hearing loss. Most hearing loss is sensorineural, meaning that the hearing loss is irreversible and requires rehabilitation. The majority of people with hearing loss have mild to moderate degrees, for which the most effective treatment options are hearing aids. Over the past few years, there have been many developments in hearing technology and the service delivery models in which they are supplied. Traditional hearing care models include several visits to a qualified hearing professional who must both perform diagnostics and prescribe hearing aids, which in the past has been the only way to obtain hearing aids. However, newer developments include forms of self-fitting hearing aids that enable a user to perform threshold measurements to determine the degree of hearing loss and automatically program and fine-tune hearing aids. These devices are now becoming available as direct-to-consumer (DTC) or over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. Furthermore, alternative care models have been suggested to bolster access and uptake of assistive technology for hearing loss. Regulations on DTC and OTC hearing aids are starting to come into effect. In 2017, the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2016 directed the FDA to create a category for OTC hearing aids for adults with perceived mild-to-moderate hearing loss. In October 2021, the FDA formally proposed a rule to establish the OTC hearing aid category as part of this process. These changes in regulations would mean that soon, many of these self-fitting devices will become available. In response to these changes in service delivery models, the hearX group recently developed the Lexie Lumen hearing aids that can perform in-situ hearing threshold estimations and automatically prescribe hearing aid gain settings that closely approximate the gold-standard NAL-NL2 fitting prescription. This study aims to evaluate whether the performance of the novel Lexie self-test and self-fitting hearing aid is equivalent to the same hearing aid programmed professionally by an audiologist using a professionally obtained audiogram.
Overhearing is important for vocabulary learning and speech and language development in young children. However, contemporary hearing aids are generally unable to provide adequate access to low-level auditory inputs from multiple talkers at a distance to capitalize on overhearing. A recent investigation by Jace Wolfe and colleagues showed that, even when aided, children with hearing loss had significantly poorer speech recognition at 40, 50 and 60 dBA compared to children with normal hearing. Furthermore, they showed that increasing hearing aid gain for very low-level inputs produced a statistically significant improvement in syllable-final plural recognition and a non-significant trend toward better monosyllabic word recognition at very low presentation levels. Additional research is needed to document low-level speech recognition ability of children with hearing loss as well as the potential benefit or detriment of increasing hearing aid gain for low-level inputs. A novel hearing aid technology known as Soft Speech Enhancer has been shown improve low-level speech perception in adults with hearing loss; however, the effect of Speech Enhancer on speech recognition in children is not yet known and will be evaluated.
This clinical study aims to investigate speech performance in quiet with an OTE Sound Processor with modified firmware compared with the commercially available CP1150. The study also investigates CP1110 and CP1150 with Forward Focus.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of a prototype app for the self-fitting of hearing aids.
This study aimed to examine the effects of single and dual-task training on physical function, cognitive function, quality of life, balance, concerns about falling, and activities of daily living in the elderly with age-related hearing loss. The elderly who were diagnosed with age-related hearing loss in Pamukkale University Health, Practice and Research Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology participated in the study. The elderly were allocated a single-task training group, dual-task training group, and control group. Thirteen patients in the single-task training group, 15 patients in the dual-task training group, 14 patients in the control group completed the study. Degrees of hearing loss were determined by pure tone audiometry. Evaluations, Senior Fitness Test, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, World Health Organization- Quality of Life- Old Module, Berg Balance Scale, Falls Efficacy Scale International, Functional Independence Measure, Dual Task Questionnaire, Dual Task Effect, were performed initially, after the interventions and at the 6th month. The interventions were carried out two days a week and 40 minutes, for five weeks.
There are few or no questionnaires in French on the hearing quality of life of children with hearing aids. The objectives of the study are to measure the hearing quality of life of children with hearing aid and / or cochlear implants and to compare the hearing quality of life according to the type of hearing aid (hearing aid and / or cochlear implant).
This clinical investigation is designed to compare audiological performance (i.e., measurements of sound quality and speech understanding) between Starkey's new receiver-in-canal device and a commercially available legacy receiver-in-canal device.
The study is a prospective, single-center, comparative, cross-over study with within-subject control design. In the investigation an updated sound processor will be tested at compared to the CE marked Ponto 3 SuperPower sound processor (available on the market since December 2016) in order to establish marketing claim(s) on the updated sound processor. The performance of the two sound processors will be evaluated via speech and hearing tests, and patient reported outcomes.