Use of technological aids and interpretation services among children and adults with hearing loss

Dammeyer, Jesper; Lehane, Christine M.; Marschark, Marc

doi:10.1080/14992027.2017.1325970

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“…Although prior studies have observed differences in HA use in children vs adults, 23 this is the first to focus on borderline/mild HL and to do so in a national population. Age quartiles were chosen as opposed to a child/adult distinction in part due to low numbers of participants in NHANES aged <18 years with HL.…”

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Age‐Related Disparities in the Treatment of Borderline/Mild Hearing Loss in the United States

Grewal¹,

Dragon²,

Golub³

2022

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To investigate disparities in hearing aid use across the life span for borderline/mild hearing loss, a cross-sectional epidemiologic study in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey was conducted. Multivariable logistic regressions controlling for hearing level analyzed the association between hearing aid use and age in borderline/mild hearing loss. Age was grouped into quartiles. Of 2470 subjects, 2.0% (n = 50) were <25 years old; 12.0% (n = 297), 25 to 49 years; 65.5% (n = 1618), 50 to 74 years; and 20.5% (n = 505), ≥75 years. When compared with the youngest quartile and while controlling for hearing level, those in the second quartile were 4.6 times less likely to use hearing aids ( P < .01); those in the third were 4.2 times less likely ( P < .01); and those in the fourth were 4.7 times less likely ( P < .001). The dramatically lower hearing aid usage of all older age groups as compared with children/younger adults represents a large unaddressed age-related disparity in the treatment of borderline/mild hearing loss.

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Age‐Related Disparities in the Treatment of Borderline/Mild Hearing Loss in the United States

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Golub³

2022

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“…Sensory substitution refers to the ability of the human mind to adapt the functionalities of another sensory modality [7]. Visual impairment directly influences communication [9], but there are methods, such as Braille used for sensory replacement to help in the reading process [10]. In the Braille example, touch is stimulated to transmit information.…”

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Pro-Athlete: A guide system for visually impaired athletes in Olympic track race

Machado¹,

Carvalho²

2021

ITEGAM- Journal of Engineering and Technology for Industrial Applications (ITEGAM-JETIA)

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Assistive technologies can improve quality of life of people with special needs, providing autonomy in their daily activities. An opportunity for improvement appears in the athletics race on the track for the visually impaired, where currently the disabled athlete does not have autonomy and runs tied by rope to a guide and may have several problems of disqualification and reduced performance due to the necessary synchronization between athlete and guide. In this context, in this article we developed a hardware and software prototype equipped with wireless communication and a language code that uses vibrating stimuli to generate commands that guide the visually impaired athlete in the Olympic track race. The prototype was tested in simulated athletic races, showing good results, with commands and stimuli being well understood and interpreted by visually impaired athletes.

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“…Finally, in a Danish national sample of 839 deaf adults, Dammeyer et al [25] found CI use unrelated to level of degree attainment.…”

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Cochlear Implants and Classroom Learning among Deaf College Students

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Sapere

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Cochlear Implants and Classroom Learning among Deaf College StudentsCochlear implants (CIs) are able to provide many deaf children with greater access to sound than ever before. By virtue of having greater access to sound, and to spoken language in particular, those children frequently also gain greater speech reception and speech intelligibility. When compared to peers with similar degrees of hearing loss who do not use CIs, the greater access to speech and environmental sounds possible with CIs is associated with childhood advantages in language Svirsky et al. [1], social functioning Punch et al. [2] access to information in the classroom Blom et al. [3] and academic achievement Vermeulen et al. [4]. Three important qualifications are necessary when describing such advantages forCI users. First is the wide variability among CI users in all of these domains, and particularly-for foundational purposes-in language development Archbold [5,6]. Second is the definitional point that CIs only increase access to sound, and it is that access-not the CI itselfthat offers many users benefits in other domains Tomblin et al. [7]. Third, at least in the domains of social functioning Kushalnagar et al. [8,9] and academic achievement Convertino et al. [10-13] the early academic benefits of cochlear implantation are reduced or absent by high school and college age Marschark et al. [14] and are not particularly related to age at implantation Marschark et al. [15],The present study specifically examined the last of these issues. Disappearing Academic Advantages?Most of the research involving academic achievement among deaf learners (with or without CIs) has been focused on reading . There is a smaller body of research addressing mathematics Edwards et al. [20,21] and even less addressing science and other domains Marschark et al. [14,22] Yet, largely because of frequent lags in language development, many deaf learners (with or without CIs) exhibit academic challenges across the curriculum.Studies demonstrating CI use to be associated with better reading abilities almost exclusively have involved children younger than secondary school age Mayer et al. [19,12] however, found that

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Use of technological aids and interpretation services among children and adults with hearing loss

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

Age‐Related Disparities in the Treatment of Borderline/Mild Hearing Loss in the United States

Age‐Related Disparities in the Treatment of Borderline/Mild Hearing Loss in the United States

Pro-Athlete: A guide system for visually impaired athletes in Olympic track race

Cochlear Implants and Classroom Learning among Deaf College Students

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