Auditory performance of children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
Horizontal sound localization and syllable recognition skills were examined in a group of children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss and a matched group of normal hearers. The results showed that the unilaterally hearing-impaired children performed more poorly than the normal counterparts in both localization and speech recognition of nonsense syllables. The unilaterally hearing-impaired children had considerable difficulty understanding in a background of noise. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology