Factors ensuring consistent audibility in pediatric hearing aid fitting.
Ensuring consistent audibility is an important objective when fitting hearing aids to children. This article reviews the factors that could affect the audibility of the speech signals to children. These factors range from a precise determination of the child's hearing loss to an accurate specification of gain in the chosen hearing aids. In addition, hearing aid technology and features such as multichannel processing, directional microphones, and feedback cancellation that could affect the achievement of consistent audibility are reviewed.
Kuk
Francis
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Office of Research in Clinical Amplification, Widex Hearing Aid Company, Lisle, Illinois 60532, USA.
Marcoux
Andre
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D002648:Child; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D017755:Prosthesis Fitting; D013067:Speech Perception