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Audiology Research, Volume 13, Issue 1

February 2023 - 15 articles

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Cover Story: To investigate the impact of a hearing dog in the life of people with hearing loss, three adults were interviewed. Specific aspects of hearing dogs appear to be associated with increased autonomy and a sense of security. The dog–owner pairing, the outstanding training, and the companion role of the dog were identified as the main elements supporting the high satisfaction reported by all participants. However, challenges for owners were identified in the context of Quebec, Canada, where there is an assumed lack of visibility of hearing dogs as a rehabilitation means. The association between owning a hearing dog and improved overall wellbeing suggests that this form of rehabilitation should be considered a pertinent option by hearing health professionals. View this paper

Articles (15)

  • Essay
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,497 Views
9 Pages

14 February 2023

The impact of language input on children’s speech, language, and brain development was borne out of Hart and Risley’s famous “30-million-word gap”. A perspective bolstered by many studies in the last decade relates higher soci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,206 Views
8 Pages

10 February 2023

The Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) and the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) are two most commonly used questionnaires in the audiology clinic to assess an individual’s self-perception of their hearing ab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,445 Views
13 Pages

9 February 2023

This is a single center cohort study regarding the prevalence of vestibular loss in hearing impaired children affected by large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVAS) with incomplete cochlear partition malformation type II (IP2), fitted with cochlear im...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,679 Views
14 Pages

How Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation Impacts the Therapeutic Strategy for Vestibular Schwannoma

  • Francesco P. Iannacone,
  • Francesca Visconti and
  • Elisabetta Zanoletti

8 February 2023

Background: Since both surgery and more conservative treatments show long-term outcomes in patients with VS, the current challenge in its therapeutic strategy is to offer a cure with lower functional morbidity in terms of facial and hearing preservat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,756 Views
9 Pages

Prevalence of Congenital Infections in Newborns and Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening in Santa Catarina, Brazil

  • Eduarda Besen,
  • Karina Mary Paiva,
  • Luciana Berwanger Cigana,
  • Marcos José Machado,
  • Alessandra Giannella Samelli and
  • Patrícia Haas

27 January 2023

Objective: to verify the frequency of congenital infections in newborns and their possible associations with the universal-neonatal-hearing-screening (UNHS) results, and evaluate a reference UNHS service in the Unified Health System (Sistema Ú...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,389 Views
11 Pages

Do Patients Aged 85 Years and above Benefit from Their Cochlear Implants?

  • Karin Hallin,
  • Ulrika Larsson and
  • Nadine Schart-Morén

19 January 2023

The present study aims to investigate the usage and benefits of cochlear implants (CIs) in elderly patients aged ≥85 years, including their device-handling issues, follow-ups, and the influence on their well-being. The patients answered one questi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,102 Views
8 Pages

15 January 2023

Background: To evaluate patients with middle ear cholesteatoma presenting with facial palsy (FP). Material-Methods: A total of 14 subjects (10 males and 4 females), with a mean age of 42.5 years, were included in our study. The majority of patients p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,117 Views
10 Pages

Efferent Control in Musicians: A Review

  • Francisca Acuña,
  • Rodrigo Jeria,
  • Elisabeth Pavez and
  • Enzo Aguilar-Vidal

6 January 2023

It is widely established that musicians possess a higher level in certain auditory perceptual abilities when compared to non-musicians. This improvement may be mediated, at least in part, by changes in the cochlear response induced by reflex activati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,251 Views
12 Pages

5 January 2023

This study aimed to explore perceptions and experiences about how owning a hearing dog can influence the functioning and the autonomy of people with hearing loss. Three adults participated in a semi-structured interview. The interviews were video rec...

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