Journal Reviews

Frequency Compression – is there a benefit?

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants | Frequency compression, auditory acclimatization, cognition, sensorineural hearing loss, speech perception

The goal of this study was to investigate whether frequency compression (FC) hearing aids provide more benefit than conventional hearing aids. Twelve experienced hearing aid users 65-84 years of age with moderate to severe high frequency hearing loss wore the...

Early habilitation for hearing impairment in children with Down syndrome

1 September 2014 | | Down syndrome, hearing, language, speech, vocabulary

Approximately 40-80% of children with Down syndrome have hearing impairment in addition to speech and language impairment. The commonest cause of hearing impairment in young children is otitis media with effusion. This paper investigated the impact of early hearing loss...