Abstract:This paper reports the development of the Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP), a 66-item self-administered inventory that quantifies performance with a hearing aid in everyday life using both seven-score and four-score profiles. The profiles assess experience with amplification in terms of speech communication in three types of listening situations and in terms of reactions to amplified environmental sounds. The PHAP has been evaluated using groups consisting mainly of elderly hearing aid wearers having … Show more
“…The PHAB is a modified form of the Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP) (Cox and Gilmore, 1990 and co-workers (1996) found that only about 25% of people consulting a professional about a hearing problem were self-motivated. The majority of their subjects were motivated by family members or friends to address their hearing difficulties.…”
“…The PHAB is a modified form of the Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP) (Cox and Gilmore, 1990 and co-workers (1996) found that only about 25% of people consulting a professional about a hearing problem were self-motivated. The majority of their subjects were motivated by family members or friends to address their hearing difficulties.…”
“…Apart from direct measurements of speech intelligibility, data gathered by means of a questionnaire based on a modified Abbreviated Profile for Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) (Cox, Alexander, 1995;Cox, Gilmore, 1990) were calculated. The hearing aid users who participated in this research were asked to fill in the appropriate questionnaires.…”
Section: Subjective Assessment Of Speech Understanding and Communicatmentioning
The paper presents the results of sentence and logatome speech intelligibility measured in rooms with induction loop for hearing aid users. Two rooms with different acoustic parameters were chosen. Twenty two subjects with mild, moderate and severe hearing impairment using hearing aids took part in the experiment. The intelligibility tests composed of sentences or logatomes were presented to the subjects at fixed measurement points of an enclosure. It was shown that a sentence test is more useful tool for speech intelligibility measurements in a room than logatome test. It was also shown that induction loop is very efficient system at improving speech intelligibility. Additionally, the questionnaire data showed that induction loop, apart from improving speech intelligibility, increased a subject's general satisfaction with speech perception.
“…Performance with hearing aids can be defined as 'the hearing ability when listening aided' [Cox and Gilmore, 1990]. Several clinically used inventories such as the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit [Cox and Alexander, 1995] or the Gothenburg Profile [Ringdahl et al, 1998] address aided performance.…”
Section: Description Of the Domains Examinedmentioning
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.