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Have You Heard About Hearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, And Cognitive Decline? Relationships, Mechanisms, And A Proposed Investigation Using Event-Related Potentials
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Benefits of Parent Training in the Rehabilitation of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children of Hearing Parents: A Systematic Review
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In: Audiology Research; Volume 11; Issue 4; Pages: 653-672 (2021)
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Speech Perception Changes in the Acoustically Aided, Nonimplanted Ear after Cochlear Implantation: A Multicenter Study
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In: Journal of Clinical Medicine ; Volume 9 ; Issue 6 (2020)
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Bimodal Benefits for Lexical Tone Recognition: An Investigation on Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers with a Cochlear Implant and a Contralateral Hearing Aid
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In: Brain Sciences ; Volume 10 ; Issue 4 (2020)
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Perceptual and Objective Assessment of Envelope Enhancement for Children with Auditory Processing Disorder
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In: Communication Sciences and Disorders Publications (2020)
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Auditory Training Supports Auditory Rehabilitation: A State-of-the-Art Review
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Remote speech-language-hearing follow-up: monitoring cochlear implant users in the immediate postoperative period
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In: Revista CEFAC, Vol 22, Iss 5 (2020) (2020)
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Essentials of Modern Hearing Aids: Selection, Fitting, and Verification
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2019)
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Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Communication, Intelligence, and Reasoning in Children with Hearing Difficulties
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In: Education Sciences ; Volume 9 ; Issue 3 (2019)
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Development and Assessment of Signal Processing Algorithms for Assistive Hearing Devices
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2019)
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Speech identification in the presence of background noise is difficult for children with auditory processing disorder and adults with sensorineural hearing loss. The listening difficulty arises from deficits in their temporal, spectral, binaural, and/ or cognitive processing. Given the lack of improvement with conventional assistive hearing devices, alternate speech processing methodologies, which exaggerate the temporal and spectral cues, need to be developed to improve speech intelligibility for individuals who have poor temporal and/ or spectral processing. This thesis first, reports results from a series of experiments on subjective and objective assessments of two different schemes of envelope enhancement algorithms (dynamic and static) across different types and levels of background noise. The subjective results revealed that the speech intelligibility scores are lower for children with auditory processing disorder compared to children with normal hearing. The subjective results also demonstrated that enhancing the temporal envelope is much more beneficial for children with auditory processing disorder when compared to children with normal hearing. Comprehensive objective assessments, which were conducted by developing novel intrusive and non-intrusive objective speech intelligibility predictors, demonstrated that both dynamic and static envelope enhancement algorithms are only effective in improving speech intelligibility under certain processing conditions that depended on the type, level and location of the background noise. Furthermore, the application of noise reduction algorithms prior to the envelope enhancement techniques increased their range of effectiveness. Second, using the proposed objective predictors, the effectiveness of a companding architecture (which enhances both temporal and spectral cues) is shown to be better than temporal envelope enhancement alone, across different noisy environments in the presence of a noise reduction algorithm. Third, the application of the binaural dichotic processing is evaluated in stationary and non-stationary background noise environments through subjective experiments. The subjective results demonstrated that the dichotic processing is mainly effective in improving speech intelligibility for stationary background noise at poor signal to noise ratios. It is also shown that the incorporation of a noise reduction algorithm as a front-end to the dichotic hearing processing is inferior to increase its range of effectiveness regardless of the type and level of the background noise.
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Auditory processing disorder; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Dichotic hearing processing; Dynamic envelope enhancement; Hearing aid speech perception index; Modulation spectrum area; Sensorineural hearing loss; Signal Processing; Static envelope enhancement
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URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8234&context=etd https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/6139
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Objective and subjective assessment of envelope enhancement algorithms for assistive hearing devices
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In: Communication Sciences and Disorders Publications (2019)
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Sound source segregation of multiple concurrent talkers via Short-Time Target Cancellation
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Realistic Expectations for Speech Recognition with Digital Hearing Aid Devices Providing Acoustic Amplification and Noise Averting Microphones
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2018)
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Electroacoustic Assessment of Hearing Aids and PSAPs
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2018)
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Language and speech outcomes of children with hearing loss and additional disabilities: identifying the variables that influence performance at five years of age
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Hearing Aid Fitting and Developmental Outcomes of Children Fit According to Either the Nal or Dsl Prescription: Fit-to-Target, Audibility, Speech and Language Abilities
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2017)
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Are hearing aid owners able to identify and self-report handling difficulties? A pilot study
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Factors Influencing Hearing Healthcare and Hearing Aid Access in Southern Appalachia
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2016)
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Hearing Aid Outcomes in Patients with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2016)
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Self-fitting hearing aids : status quo and future predictions
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