The purpose of this study was to examine effects of Hearing aid use and to do a judgment of the provement. The investigation was a pilot study and may be used in the clinic.The international form ?International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids? (IOI-HA) was used for data collection. Four questions were chosen from the form. These questions were answered by Hearing aid users and their significant others.

This essay is about the history of the Hearing aid in Sweden, from 1930s until today. The Hearing aid as an apparatus is described, and views by the users are presented. Articles and interviews have been used as source material to answer the main questions. In the essay, people who have written the articles, and the ten users being interviewed, describe how Hearing aids are used in everyday life, and how users interact with people in general and how the Hearing care system treats users. Another question regards how users perceive their own Hearing aids from an aesthetic perspective.

It is always more demanding and the risk for misunderstanding increases when communicating in noisy environments. The confusions and the mistakes that occur when speech is disturbed are very interesting and happens constantly. The purpose of this study was to examine speech recognition results from the test PB S/N +4 and find out which confusions that are made by the normal Hearing and by the Hearing impaired persons in the speech lists 3 and 4, and also analyse the mistakes from a phonetic perspective. Ten normal Hearing and 50 persons with impaired Hearing participated in the study. The people with impaired Hearing were divided into two groups; DTMV 40 dB HL.The results were compared between the normal Hearing and those with impaired Hearing.

An open fitting is suitable for persons with sloping Hearing loss and relatively good low fre-quency Hearing. Sensory neural Hearing losses often have this type of configuration. A large ventilation canal gives a greater feeling of comfort and less occlusion. The purpose of this study was to look at the Hearing aid benefit of open fitted Hearing aids. Self report question-naires were sent out to 102 patients who were given ReSound AIR during the year of 2006 in Uddevalla.

The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is a common genetic disorder that affects for example the heart, palate, immune system and Hearing and therefore affects a child?s development. The purpose of this study was to investigate the proportion of children (0-18 years) with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome who have a Hearing loss. A retrospective study of 103 children diagnosed with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome was conducted by medical records. Of the 103 children, 51 were boys and 52 were girls.

Objective: 1.4 million people in Sweden state that they are having problems with Hearing and the majority havehad no contact with the Hearing rehabilitation services. To have a Hearing loss seems to be associated withseveral negative attributes. This could be due to bad attitude and insufficient knowledge on Hearing loss intoday?s society.Purpose: The purpose with this study was to map the adult populations attitude towards Hearing loss and selfratedknowledge of Hearing with a survey.Methods: A web survey was made for this study. An official link to the survey was shared from two Facebookaccounts to a total of 997 contacts and a total of 247 responses were collected.Results: The majority of the respondents have estimated their general knowledge of Hearing to fairly extensivefollowed by very small.

There is a lot written about being Hearing impaired. There are guidelines on how to adjust the indoor environment for the Hearing impaired. There is even more written about gardening and garden design from different aspects. However, I found out that there is nothing written about garden design or adjusting the outdoor environment for the Hearing impaired. At the background of myself being Hearing impaired and garden designer I realised that I actually had adjusted my own garden out of the fact that I am Hearing impaired.

The society today is more aware of the importance of early diagnosis of children?s Hearing impairment. Neonatal Hearing screening is used in many countries today, that is to be able to start habilitation at as early age as possible. Studies have shown that if children are diagnosed early enough will their language ability follow the age group of normal Hearing peers.This is a journal study where journals form 99 Icelandic children, diagnosed in the Hearing and Speech Institute of Iceland during a period of 5 years, between 2002 and 2006, were inspected and analyzed. At the same time as the age of diagnose was analyzed the influence of gender, type and degree of Hearing impairment was inspected.The age of diagnose of Hearing impairment in Iceland was found to be between 5 and 6 years of age which looks higher than in other counties.

A number of studies have been made to examine several aspects of voice production in individuals with different types of Hearing impairments. Most of the studies were made to explore the impact that Hearing aids have for people with severe or congenital Hearing impairment. So far it has been confirmed that there are changes regarding voice production in these individuals. A group that has not been investigated regarding voice production to a larger extent are Hearing aid users with an acquired Hearing impairment. In the present study the voice production of seven individuals, four men and three women, with a moderate acquired Hearing impairment is examined.

This c-level essay examines how deaf and Hearing impaired individuals use smartphones to live and communicate in a ?Hearing world?. The main target is to find some understanding of the struggles of this population and smartphones have made it easier to adapt to the Hearing worlds? demands with the applications that follow. To acquire the information for this essay, representatives from both the deaf and Hearing impaired communities were interviewed.

This c-level essay examines how deaf and Hearing impaired individuals use smartphones to live and communicate in a ?Hearing world?. The main target is to find some understanding of the struggles of this population and smartphones have made it easier to adapt to the Hearing worlds? demands with the applications that follow. To acquire the information for this essay, representatives from both the deaf and Hearing impaired communities were interviewed.

Assessment of Hearing aids can be done by inventories. The result of the inventories can show the patients need and how the Hearing aids works in the patients daily life. The result of the inventories can be influenced by the difference in languages and the cultures. The inventory IOI-HA should not be sensitive to those factors.The aim of this study was to compare and analyse material, method and to report and analyse the result from a pilot study made at Sahlgrenska University.The result showed that IOI-HA is a natural inventory which is able to be used internationally. The four studies in England, USA, the Netherlands, and Germany showed that the psychometric properties are similar across languages and cultures.

A stay in the neonatal intensive care unit of greater than 5 days is one of the identified risks ofa sensorineural Hearing loss. Preterm infants usually have at least one risk factor for Hearingimpairment. The period from 25 weeks' gestation to 5 to 6 months of age is most critical tothe development of the auditory system. We think it is important to investigate Hearingimpariment among infants born preterm, degree and type of Hearing loss, risk factorsassociated with Hearing loss and how the auditory system may be affected by preterm birth.ObjectiveA critical review of the current literature including studies of preterm infants born betweengestonal age 25-37. Our aim is to identify the most common type and degree of Hearing lossamong infants born preterm and if there is an association between Hearing loss and pretermbirth.MethodA literature search of Scopus and Pubmed resulted in 16 articles from 2000-2015ResultsMost of the infants in this study had a severe to profound sensorineural Hearing loss.

This study investigated whether in-situ audiometry, delivered via Hearing aids, is a better option as a basis forprescribing Hearing aid amplification, compared to conventional audiometry. By examining the real ear insertgain (REIG) in 29 ears (18 subjects), that had been fitted with a Hearing aid programmed using both conventionalaudiometry and in-situ audiometry, the study looked at whether in-situ audiometry based prescription is closer tothe NAL NL1's fitting target than audiogram based prescription. The Hearing aid Siemens Pure 7mi with speakerunit M was used on all participants. The results showed how in-situ audiometry based gain at certain frequenciesis more consistent with the target curve, especially at 1000, 1500, 2000 and 4000 Hz. It was not establishedwhether the findings of the study were statistically significant.

Success in treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy against different types of cancer tumors is limited by side-effects such as Hearing loss which can have a large impact on the individual`s quality of life. It is of great importance to continue with studies that address this complex of problems.Objective: The aim of this literature review is to investigate the impact of platinum-based chemotherapy on Hearing in children and adolescents treated for different types of cancer.Method: A descriptive review of literature was made based on sources from 15 different studies on the impact of platinum-based chemotherapy on Hearing in the target group.Results: The survey of the studies shows that platinum-based chemotherapy causes incidence of Hearing loss by differing degree in the target group. Dosage of a platinum-based substance appeared to be the most significant factor. Treatment with both cisplatin and carboplatin was more ototoxic than treatment with only one of these. Greater risk for Hearing loss was to a higher degree observed in younger children.