Hearing Aids Fitting for Students with Mild or Mild-Moderate Sensorineural Hearing Losses.

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  • Tsukada Haruyo
    Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Gunma University
  • Nagai Kyoko
    Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Gunma University Department of Otolaryngology, Gunma General Public Hospital
  • Oharazawa Masako
    Department of Otolaryngology, Fukaya Red Cross Hospital
  • Kamei Tamio
    Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Gunma University

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  • 学齢期の軽度，軽中等度感音性難聴児における補聴器適合の検討

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Abstract

Fifteen children with mild or mild-moderate sensorineural hearing loss were assessed for the fitting of hearing aids. All of the subjects had not been wearing hearing aids until the time of their first consultation with us. We evaluated the development of their language and speech discrimination ability by analysis of the followings: (1) Clinical history, (2) Speech discrimination test results, (3) Misunderstanding of Japanese consonant sounds, and (4) language development assessed by the WISC-R test. The subjects who showed a deficiency in even one of these four items were fitted with hearing aids. As the result, hearing aids were fitted in 12 of the 15 children. With hearing aids fitted, the average speech discrimination score was 79.7% (1SD=±12.9) when 55dBSPL test sound was used. This was markedly better than the score of 48.5% (1SD=±21.4) obtained when they were not fitted with hearing aids. We concluded that hearing aids were effective for children with mild or mild-moderate sensorineural hearing loss.

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  • AUDIOLOGY JAPAN

    AUDIOLOGY JAPAN 41 (3), 214-220, 1998

    Japan Audiological Society

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