{"title":"Symmetry measures of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials using objective detection criteria","authors":"K. Brantberg, P. Fransson","doi":"10.1080/010503901316914566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901316914566","url":null,"abstract":"Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) has been put forward as a test to evaluate the symmetry of saccular function. In the present study, the symmetry of VEMP was evaluated in 23 healthy subjects using automatic analysis. In response to binaural clicks with a stimulus repetition rate of 4/s all subjects revealed significant VEMP on both sides. The ipsilateral response to monaural clicks was similar to the response to binaural clicks. Although there were large interindividual variations in amplitude, there were only small variations in latency. VEMP measurements were also assessed using different stimulus rates. At the higher stimulus rates there was a decrease in the VEMP amplitude but there were only small changes in the latency. These findings might suggest that amplitude measures are more likely than latency measures to reveal small vestibular lesions.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"189 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901316914566","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways to promote a noise control programme","authors":"J. Niskanen, H. Anttonen","doi":"10.1080/010503901300007443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901300007443","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to find out the proper ways to promote and to start a noise control programme in small and medium size industries. The situation of the noise control programme was inspected in four industrial enterprises. The noise exposure and the noise sources were studied and recommendations for noise reduction were given. The information concerning the noise control programme and noise levels was given to the personnel. How the noise control programme was started in the companies and which were the best ways to promote the programme were examined after 1 year. Noise reduction work was carried out in companies during the past year and new ideas were awaiting investment. The systematic noise control programme was not written on paper or connected to a risk management programme. The lack of proper models of a programme, lack of time and knowledge of easy means to reduce the noise were reasons for missing noise control programmes. The best ways to push up the noise control programme were to give information and examples of the programme. The EU-directive concerning machines and its noise information was a help in the noise reduction work connected with new investments.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"174 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901300007443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social inclusion and career development - transition from upper secondary school to work or post-secondary education among hard of hearing students","authors":"B. Danermark, Sivert Antonson, Inger Lundström","doi":"10.1080/010503901750166880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901750166880","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to investigate the decision process and to analyse the mechanisms involved in the transition from upper secondary education to post-secondary education or the labour market. Sixteen students with sensorioneural hearing loss were selected. Among these eight of the students continued to university and eight did not. Twenty-five per cent of the students were women and the average age was 28 years. The investigation was conducted about 5 years after graduation from the upper secondary school. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The results showed that none of the students came from a family where any or both of the parents had a university or comparable education. The differences in choice between the two groups cannot be explained in terms of social inheritance. Our study indicates that given normal intellectual capacity the level of the hearing loss seems to have no predictive value regarding future educational performance and academic career. The conclusion is that it is of great importance that a hearing impaired pupil with normal intellectual capacity is encouraged and guided to choose an upper secondary educational programme which is orientated towards post-secondary education (instead of a narrow vocational programme). Additional to their hearing impairment and related educational problems, hard of hearing students have much more difficulty than normal hearing peers in coping with changes in intentions and goals regarding their educational career during their upper secondary education.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"120 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901750166880","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Brook, J. Trussell, K. Hilton, H. Forsyth, B. Pizer
{"title":"Normal values for distortion product otoacoustic emissions in children: a study using primary levels previously demonstrated to be optimum for identification of hearing loss","authors":"L. Brook, J. Trussell, K. Hilton, H. Forsyth, B. Pizer","doi":"10.1080/010503901750166628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901750166628","url":null,"abstract":"No published data exist for normal values of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) in children at primary levels f1 = 65 dB and f2 = 55 dB SPL. These primary levels have been previously demonstrated to be optimal for identification of hearing impaired ears in adults. A total of 102 normal children underwent audiological assessment, including exclusion of middle ear disease, pure tone audiometry and DPOAE DP-grams (primaries L1/L2 = 65/55 dB SPL, f1:f2 = 1.22). There was a statistically significant decrease in DPOAE amplitude with increasing age. DPOAE amplitude was also dependent on the frequency of f2. However, there was wide inter- and intra-individual variation in DPOAE amplitude at different frequencies of f2. There was also a large overlap between the range of values of DPOAE amplitude between the adjacent age groups. Detailed assessment of DPOAE in children is feasible in the clinical setting. These normal values should prove invaluable in future studies; however, the large range of normal values means that cross-sectional studies may not be able to detect small variations in cochlear function.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"37 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901750166628","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's amplification needs - same or different from adults?","authors":"T. Ching, H. Dillon, D. Byrne","doi":"10.1080/010503901750166664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901750166664","url":null,"abstract":"Hearing aid fitting strategies for children have largely developed separately from those for adults. There has, however, been little consideration of whether children's amplification requirements are different, except for the physical effects of differences in ear canal size. This paper summarizes the fitting strategies for children, and examines whether children require more (or less) gain for high-, medium- or low-level sounds, or a different frequency response, compared with adults with similar hearing loss. Research relating to the above questions is reviewed. The gain that children require for high-level sounds is not different than for adults because loudness discomfort levels are similar. The gain children prefer for mediumlevel sounds is the same, or only slightly more, than is preferred by adults. Children may require greater gain for low-level sounds because they do require higher signal levels to achieve the same level of speech understanding as adults do. There are, however, arguments why more gain for low-level sounds may not be desirable. The frequency response children prefer is the same as that preferred by adults. New methods for evaluating individual fittings are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"54 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901750166664","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to assess outcome of hearing aid fitting in children","authors":"S. Arlinger","doi":"10.1080/010503901750166709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901750166709","url":null,"abstract":"Assessment of outcome of hearing aid fitting in children should contain several dimensions: audibility, speech recognition, subjective benefit and speech production. Audibility may be determined by means of aided hearing thresholds or real-ear measurements. For determining speech recognition, methods different from those used for adult patients must be used, especially for children with congenital hearing loss. In these children the development of the spoken language and vocabulary has to be considered, especially when testing speech recognition but also with regard to speech production. Subjective assessment of benefit to a large extent has to rely on the assessment by parents and teachers for children younger than school age. However, several studies have shown that children from the age of around 7 years can usually produce reliable responses in this respect. Speech production has to be assessed in terms of intelligibility by others, who may or may not be used to the individual child's speech. Ideally, the outcome should be assessed repeatedly at suitable intervals in order to be able to follow the child's communicative development.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"68 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901750166709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Namysłowski, K. Morawski, P. Urbaniec, G. Trybalska, G. Lisowska
{"title":"Latencies of the 2f1-f2 distortion product otoacoustic emissions measured using a phase-gradient method in young people, in the elderly and in people exposed to noise","authors":"G. Namysłowski, K. Morawski, P. Urbaniec, G. Trybalska, G. Lisowska","doi":"10.1080/010503901300007281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901300007281","url":null,"abstract":"Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) are generally accepted as a good tool for investigating the micromechanics of the cochlea. The 2f1-f2 DPOAE latencies provide significant data regarding travelling waves. In this study the 2f1-f2 DPOAE latencies were measured using a phase-gradient method, with a swept-f2 procedure, for three groups: Group I comprised 60 healthy young people, aged 17-32 years; Group II comprised elderly patients, aged 56-72 years, with presbyacusis; and Group III consisted of 74 miners, aged 19-35 years, who had been exposed to noise for 2-15 years. Measurements were performed for frequencies between 1.0 and 6.0 kHz. In all groups the latencies were fitted using a non-linear regression model. The aim of the study was to compare the latency and amplitude of 2f1-f2 DPOAE in different inner ear pathologies. The highest DPOAE amplitudes were recorded in Group I and in miners with 2-4 years noise exposure (Group IIIa), and the latencies showed a similar pattern. The lowest DPOAE amplitudes were recorded in the elderly and in miners with 8-15 years noise exposure (Group IIIc), but in contrast the longest latencies were measured in miners and the shortest in the elderly. The latency analysis significantly reinforces opinions on the micromechanics of the cochlea, mostly in terms of the cochlear functioning as a filter and amplifier and with regard to the elasticity of the basilar membrane.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"30 1","pages":"121 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901300007281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59013757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finnish speech in noise test: long-term reproducibility","authors":"K. Laitakari","doi":"10.1080/010503901300007407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901300007407","url":null,"abstract":"A computerized adaptive Finnish speech in noise test was developed recently. As part of the test's evaluation process the long-term stability of speech recognition threshold in noise (SRTN) was determined. The non-operated ears of 164 stapes surgery patients were assessed preoperatively and at 1, 7 and 19 months postoperatively. Short-term and long-term repeatability were equal. The absolute intraindividual differences were 1.5 dB on average.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"62 1","pages":"163 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901300007407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Finnish speech in noise test for assessing sensorineural hearing loss","authors":"K. Laitakari, S. Uimonen","doi":"10.1080/010503901300007416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/010503901300007416","url":null,"abstract":"A computerized adaptive Finnish speech in noise test was developed recently. As part of the test's evaluation process 172 patients with sensorineural hearing loss including 20 normally hearing subjects were measured using pure-tone audiometry, speech recognition threshold in noise (SRTN) test and conventional speech audiometry without background noise. As anticipated, sensorineural hearing loss yielded an elevation of SRTN although individual differences were considerable. The SRTN test was accurate as the absolute difference between individual repeated SRTNs was, on average, 1.5 dB (SD 1.5 dB) when the range of possible test values is from approximately -12 to +20 dB. On average, the learning effect was 0.5 dB.","PeriodicalId":76516,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian audiology","volume":"53 1","pages":"165 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/010503901300007416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59014052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}