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Non-Quiet Listening For Children With Hearing Loss: An Evaluation Of Amplification Needs And Strategies, Jeff Crukley
Non-Quiet Listening For Children With Hearing Loss: An Evaluation Of Amplification Needs And Strategies, Jeff Crukley
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The goals of this project were to identify and evaluate strategies for non-quiet listening needs of children with hearing loss who wear hearing instruments.
Three studies were undertaken: 1) an exploration of the listening environments and situations experienced by children from daycare to high school during the school-day; 2) a comparative evaluation of consonant recognition, sentence recognition in noise, and loudness perception with the Desired Sensation Level version 5 (DSL v5) Quiet and Noise prescriptions and 3) a comparative evaluation of sentence recognition in noise and loudness perception with DSL v 5 Quiet and Noise paired with the hearing instrument …