title: Can a Commercially Available Auditory Training Program Improve Audiovisual Speech Performance?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of this study was to determine whether hearing aids in combination with computer-based auditory training improve audiovisual (AV) performance compared with the use of hearing aids alone.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four participants were randomized into an experimental group (hearing aids plus ReadMyQuips [RMQ] training) and a control group (hearing aids only). The Multimodal Lexical Sentence Test for Adults (Kirk et al., 2012) was used to measure auditory-only (AO) and AV speech perception performance at three signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Participants were tested at the time of hearing aid fitting (pretest), after 4 weeks of hearing aid use (posttest I), and again after 4 weeks of RMQ training (posttest II).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results did not reveal an effect of training. As expected, interactions were found between (a) modality (AO vs. AV) and SNR and (b) test (pretest vs. posttests) and SNR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data do not show a significant effect of RMQ training on AO or AV performance as measured using the Multimodal Lexical Sentence Test for Adults.
authors: Audiology Section, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
authors: Dania
authors: D
authors: Rishiq
authors: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe.
authors: Aparna
authors: A
authors: Rao
authors: Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
authors: Tess
authors: T
authors: Koerner
authors: Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, MNUniversity of South Florida, Tampa.
authors: Harvey
authors: H
authors: Abrams
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D013067:Speech Perception