A battery of tests for fitting hearing aid to single sided deafness client – a case report

Abstract

For a patient with single-sided deafness (SSD), it was observed that a hearing aid programmed to unmasked thresholds resulted in no intolerance to amplified speech and eliminated a sensation of vibration. Further, the binaural advantage was assessed using localization and speech in noise tests and the programmed settings were found to be beneficial in the aided condition compared to the unaided condition. Further, the hearing aid trial was performed using a paired comparison method by occluding the better ear with an otoblock and speech noise was delivered using insert earphone at 65 dB SPL. The aided benefit in each hearing aid was best when occluding the better ear with an otoblock. But the findings indeed require further systematic design on a cohort of SSD before coming into concluding remark. ARTICLE HISTORY