The Test of Listening Difficulties - Universal (ToLD-U) is designed to evaluate the understanding of speech in a noisy, reverberant environment, using sentences comprised of words that are familiar to
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: One of the problems observed in pure-tone audiometry tonal has been the variation in test results of a same individual, particularly at frequencies of 4 kHz, 6 kHz and/or 8 kHz.
Purpose: to investigate the influence of transducer`s type in pure-tone and speech audiometry of elderly in different decades of life. Methods: 39 individuals participated in this study of both sexes,
The study was approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, the Institutional Review Board at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH). Twenty children and 20 adults were recruited. Those who
The aim of the research was to evaluate the feasibility of measuring the bone conduction hearing threshold using self-administered mobile audiometry. A single-centre, closed, cross-over trial was carr
