title: Improvements in speech understanding with wireless binaural broadband digital hearing instruments in adults with sensorineural hearing loss.
abstract: This investigation examined whether speech intelligibility in noise can be improved using a new, binaural broadband hearing instrument system. Participants were 36 adults with symmetrical, sensorineural hearing loss (18 experienced hearing instrument users and 18 without prior experience). Participants were fit binaurally in a planned comparison, randomized crossover design study with binaural broadband hearing instruments and advanced digital hearing instruments. Following an adjustment period with each device, participants underwent two speech-in-noise tests: the QuickSIN and the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT). Results suggested significantly better performance on the QuickSIN and the HINT measures with the binaural broadband hearing instruments, when compared with the advanced digital hearing instruments and unaided, across and within all noise conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology & Deaf Studies, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA. bkreisman@towson.edu
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kreisman
authors.forename: Annette G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Mazevski
authors.forename: Donald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Schum
authors.forename: Ravichandran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sockalingam
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D032882:Comprehension; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013065:Speech Intelligibility
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