Profound hearing loss
Exploration of molecular genetic etiology for Korean cochlear implantees with severe to profound hearing loss and its implication
... residual hearing that we can possibly relate to the mutation of a certain gene (Figure ...in profound childhood deafness ...of profound hearing loss are encountered in the Korean ...
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Postural control in children with typical development and children with profound hearing loss
... bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss (audiometric threshold greater than 96 dB constitutes a profound hearing loss, requirement for the experimental group); aged between ...
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A parsimonious approach for screening moderate-to-profound hearing loss in a community-dwelling geriatric population based on a decision tree analysis
... moderate hearing loss (pure tone average PTA > 40 dB HL) was selected because moderate or greater hearing loss in older adults is significantly associated with an increased risk of devel- ...
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CMV Infection in Patients with Profound Hearing Loss
... TORCH investigations since there is currently no treatment that can reverse the profound hearing loss. However, if the screening had been performed early on, early management could prevent ...
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The encoding of fricatives for people with severe and profound hearing loss
... Additional features have since been added to the SiVo aid. These include speech amplitude envelope and voiceless frication information. Amplitude envelope information carries suprasegmental cues, and can enhance the ...
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C HAPTER NINE. Signal Processing for Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss. Stefan Launer and Volker Kühnel. Introduction
... less hearing loss in the low and mid-frequency range than the subjects in either group II or ...profoundly hearing-impaired subjects tended to pre- fer WDRC processing over linear amplification ...
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A de novo silencer causes elimination of MITF-M expression and profound hearing loss in pigs
... As the associated region we discovered was too large for complete screening, the causative mutation could have been missed due to incomplete coverage by Sanger sequencing. To help rule out this possibility, we used ...
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Changes in sound-source localization for children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss following simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation
... 238 239 In conclusion, the findings of the present study demonstrate that simultaneous biCIs led to 240 improved sound localization in a group of children with predominantly symmetrical,[r] ...
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A speech pattern processing method for Chinese listeners with profound hearing loss.
... years hearing aid research has had varying degrees of success in restoring hearing to people with different degrees of hearing ...of hearing aid development is also the story of reducing the ...
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Evaluation of Cost-Effectiveness of Cochlear Implant Use in Albania and Benefits from its Applications to Children with Profound Loss Hearing
... It is estimated that each year in our country about 70 children are born with profound hearing loss. If detected and diagnosed early (before age 4- 5) and treated with a cochlear implant, these ...
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Noise Induced Hearing Loss
... with hearing protectors is that one attenuation does not fit all either, and care should be taken to not “over ...of hearing protector that would reduce the noise experienced to below the 85dB ...their ...
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Strong founder effect of p P240L in CDH23 in Koreans and its significant contribution to severe to profound nonsyndromic hearing loss in a Korean pediatric population
... Results: Four (3.1 %) of 128 children carried two CDH23 mutant alleles, and SLC26A4 and GJB2 accounted for 18.0 and 17.2 %, respectively. All four children showed profound nonsyndromic SNHL with minimal residual ...
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Nonorganic hearing loss (NOHL) is a term. Nonorganic hearing loss. Malingering, factitious or conversion disorder?
... Regarding children, it is already well known about different types of non-organic hearing loss, factitious or conversion disorders, depending on the severity of the psychological problem. NOHL is just a way ...
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Occupational hearing loss is a condition
... turing; furniture, lumber, and wood manufacturing; and transportation equipment manufacturing. The analysis also found that the construction industry had the most workers with hearing difficulty attributable to ...
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Evaluating Hearing Loss in Elders
... Among the losses that occur in the aging process, that affect critically the quality of life and need rehabilitation by means of prostheses and therapy, is presbycusis. Despite it starts about the 30 years old, most ...
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Understanding Childhood Hearing Loss. Information Booklet for Families of Children Newly Diagnosed with a Hearing Loss
... A soundfield system usually consists of four speakers placed strategically in the classroom, a base transmitter and a wireless microphone for the teacher. When the teacher speaks at a normal conversation level, their ...
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Aural Habilitation in Severe to Profound Hearing Impaired Children Below 2 years
... sever hearing- impaired children (case 4,5,7,8,9), in all aspects and at all age levels ...their hearing gradually and around their first birthday ...
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The Psychology of Hearing Loss. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) as it Relates to Persons who have a Hearing Loss
... Understanding Hearing Loss/Who is at Risk; (2) Hearing Loss Symptoms; (3) How is Hearing Loss Diagnosed?; (4) Medical Treatments for Hearing Loss; (5) ...
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Aging and Combined Vision and Hearing Loss
... vision loss becomes a communication disorder in addition to the impairments that are traditionally associated with visual impairment, such as mobility ...sensory loss (also see Fraser et al, 2016; Hersh, ...
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Genetics of hearing loss: focus on DFNA2
... Ion channels have a central role in regulation of the ionic composition of intracellular and extracellular fluid, which are key for hair cell activation in the inner ear. Mutations in these channels have long been ...
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