Reactions to binaural hearing aid fitting.
This paper deals with a brief survey of the rated listening efficiency of three groups of people. Group A consisted of 10 normally hearing adults; Group B consisted of 9 hearing-impaired adults using monaural ear-level hearing aids and Group C consisted of 12 subjects using binaural ear-level hearing aids. They rated their listening efficiency of a six-point scale for 30 different everyday situations. The results highlighted the effectiveness of binaural hearing aids in facilitating the effectiveness of binaural hearing aids in facilitating speech reception and in enhancing localization ability.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000628:therapy*; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000628:therapy*; D006313:Hearing Loss, Central / Q000628:therapy; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D013067:Speech Perception