Speech intelligibility in noise will be evaluated in adults with moderate to moderate-severe sensorineural hearing loss, using an assistive listening device and hearing aid, and compared to speech intelligibility in noise using hearing aids alone.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10
Commercially available transmitter microphone which sends distant speech signals to a receiver that is attached/embedded into hearing aids.
Commercially available receiver-in-canal hearing aid
Hearts for Hearing
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Speech Intelligibility in Noise
The percent of correctly repeated words, when a list of 10 sentences is presented in noise. Ten sentences are presented at a certain loudness level while background noise is presented simultaneously at a specific loudness level. The number of words repeated correctly is calculated from the total number of words presented.
Time frame: Day 1 of a one day study
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