{"title":"Tympanometry screening in developmentally delayed individuals.","authors":"M K Zoller, D J Ruhe, J R Dunster","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Residents of the Huronia Regional Centre for the developmentally disabled (N:900) underwent otoscopic screening (canal \"clear\" vs \"not clear\") and tympanometric screening, including tympanometry and physical volume measures (Ss exhibiting Type B tympanograms were classified \"hard positive\"). Results showed that (1) by otoscopy, 53.2% of all Ss examined had canals \"not clear\". (2) Overall, degree of retardation was loosely related to prevalence of abnormal otoscopy. (3) The etiologies for mental retardation of \"metabolism\" and \"chromosomal abnormalities\" (including all Down's Syndrome cases) were most prone to be in the \"not clear\" otoscopic category. By tympanometry, 25.8% were classified \"hard positive\". Overall, conductive disorders as assessed by tympanometry increased significantly with degree of mental retardation. Chromosomal abnormalities yielded a significantly higher proportion of \"hard positive\" cases (43%) than any other etiology. Identification of sub-populations at risk for conductive disorders, such as those of chromosomal abnormalities and/or more severe developmental delays will enable the employment in the future of more efficient auditory screening techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"25 1","pages":"15-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14078724","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":"Normal-hearing teenagers' performance on time-compressed sentential stimuli.","authors":"L L Riensche, N L Slate, L E Lamb","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teenagers with normal hearing, reading, and learning abilities yielded normative data on time-compressed speech, either the Revised CID sentences or 3rd-order sentential approximations. There were 6 Ss, either all boys or all girls, in each of 12 subgroups combining age (median ages: 13, 15, 17 yrs), gender (M or F), SPL of test (45 or 60 db SPL), type of material ( RCIDs or sentential approximations), and percent time compression (0, 40, or 60%). The expected poorer performance was found with sentential approximations, either increased time compression, and with decreased level. This study provides normative data for teenagers' performance on tests of time-compressed sentential material.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"25 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14952678","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 effects of multitalker and masker noise on fundamental frequency variability during spontaneous speech for children and adults.","authors":"C Rivers, M P Rastatter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Young adults (N:10) and children aged 5-10 yrs (14 M, 14 F) spoke spontaneously in quiet and in the presence of masking at 90 db SPL in binaural earphones, either white noise or multitalker noise. Fundamental frequency (fo) variability data (coefficients of variation) for the stressed and nonstressed words were submitted to ANOVA. Fo variability observed during the production of stressed words was significantly more variable than nonstressed words. Also, multitalker noise affected performance variability while white noise did not. Evidence supporting the operation of a mixed control strategy during speech production was discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"25 1","pages":"37-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14952681","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":"Noise exposure levels from model airplane engines.","authors":"R C Pearlman, M Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research indicates that noise levels from unmuffled model airplane engines produce sufficient noise to cause TTS. The present study explored SPLs of smaller engines under 3.25 cc (.19 cu. in.) and the effectiveness of engine mufflers. Results showed that model airplanes can exceed a widely used damage risk criterion (DRC) but that engine mufflers can reduce levels below DRC. Handling model gasoline engines should be added to the list of recreational activities such as snow-mobile and motorcycle riding, shooting, etc. in which the participant's hearing may be in jeopardy. Suggestions are presented to the model engine enthusiast for avoiding damage to hearing.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"25 1","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14952679","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":"Post-noise-exposure auditory sensitivity and temporal integration recovery functions.","authors":"M R Stephenson, L G Wall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Normal-hearing young adults (N:12) were exposed to a band-limited noise (1.4-2 kc/s) at 100 db SPL for 15 min. Pre- and post-exposure threshold measurements were made at 2 and 4 kc/s at durations of 500 and of 20 msec, at time intervals of TTS2, TTS15 and every 30-min interval thereafter for 4 hrs. Greater TTS occurred at both frequencies with the 500-msec than with the 20-msec duration. Threshold recovery patterns over time were similar for both durations but thresholds for the 20-msec duration recovered sooner. There was a delayed recovery function at 4 kc/s for the relative differences (20 vs 500 msec). Implications of the findings were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 4","pages":"239-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17603005","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":"Dichotic abilities in children, normal adults and aphasic adults for open- and closed-context words.","authors":"R Bavosi, R R Rupp","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>School children (N: 147, distributed across grades from K through 5), 15 normal adults aged 19-30 yrs, and 11 aphasic adults with stabilized aphasia either of traumatic (N: 5) or cerebrovascular (N: 6) origin were used to explore the non-acoustic element of cognition as an influence on dichotic behavior. All Ss were audiometrically normal. Dichotic performances were assessed across age and condition. Pairs of words from the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (open-context) and common color names (closed-context) were presented simultaneously to both ears at about 70 db SPL by stereo tapes and earphones. Each pair was adjusted to +/- 3 msec for time-of-onset and +/- 4 db in level. S reported words heard. Performance was assessed for single- and for double-correct responses and for order-of-report (L-first, R-first) bias. Consistent with earlier findings, children showed R-ear-advantage in the single-correct and order-of-report measures for both stimulus sets. Double-correct scores were considerably and significantly higher for all Ss for the closed-context words. The older children (Grade 5) performed at adult levels on the double-correct measure for closed-context words, but not on any measure for the open-context words. The children's order-of-report biases were nearly identical to the normal adults'. As expected, the aphasic subgroups performed poorer than any normal subgroups, except K, and those of traumatic etiology yielded responses generally poorer than those of cerebrovascular origin. From the stabilized aphasic patient data we conclude that the R hemisphere appears to have a compensatory capacity for language acquisition subsequent to L hemisphere damage, and that dichotic testing is sensitive not only in aphasia generally, but can distinguish between certain aphasiogenic categories.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 4","pages":"265-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17603007","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":"Dichotic training.","authors":"J Katz, M Chertoff, J R Sawusch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children (aged 7-10 yrs) who were referred because of learning disabilities and found to have abnormal SSW scores were divided into Experimental and Control Groups. All had essentially normal pure-tone ac HTLs, tympanograms, and W-22 word discrimination scores. Pre-therapy baselines were also obtained on a speech-to-noise (S-in-N) task, a test of phonemic synthesis (PS) and a new procedure with staggered dichotic digits (SDD) patterned after the SSW. The therapy for the 5 Exper. Ss consisted of 15 lessons, given 1 hr each, 2 per week, using staggered dichotic digits [termed Digit Offset Therapy (DOT)]. The \"competing\" portion of the items ranged from complete overlap to 500-msec separation. The therapy program began with the most widely separated items first, followed by those with greater overlap in the succeeding lessons. Following DOT, the original test battery was readministered to both groups. During the therapy, significant improvement was noted for the Exper. Grp from Sessions 5 through 15 (less than .05 level) compared to the pre-therapy baseline. On the central tests, pre- and post-therapy, the Exper. Grp improved significantly over the Controls (.01 level) on the SDD test. There were also trends toward improvement for the Exper. Grp over the Controls on the SSW and S-in-N tests but neither reached statistical significance. Neither group improved in PS. Explanations for the test findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 4","pages":"251-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17603006","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":"Hearing-impaired children's performance on the Edgerton and Danhauer Nonsense Syllable Test.","authors":"J L Danhauer, C Johnson, C W Asp","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The monaural performance of 7 girls, aged 8:8-14:8 yrs, with mild-to-moderate hearing losses, was assessed at SLs of 25, 35, 45, and 55 db on List A of a commercially available taped version (Auditec of St. Louis) of the Edgerton and Danhauer (1979) nonsense syllable test (NST). Ss' verbal responses were transcribed phonetically and scored by phoneme, consonant, vowel, and bisyllabic methods. The phoneme method was preferred. There were no age effects. Performance improved slightly as SL increased. Results were favorably compared to those of earlier studies on this and other versions of the NST; these preliminary data indicate that the NST is useful for assessing children's phoneme perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 4","pages":"231-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17603003","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":"Middle-component AERs during backward masking.","authors":"R G Ivey, R Goldstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the middle-component averaged electroencephalic response (AER) to tonal stimuli presented in a backward-masking paradigm. Ss were 4 normal-hearing young adults. Tone-Only (TO), Masker-Only (MO), and Tone-Masker (TM) responses were collected. The visual impression was that the TO response was not significantly different from the extracted response to the tone (T) from the TM response. This result obtained when the tone in the TM condition was presented either slightly above (+5 db) or slightly below (-5 db) perceptual threshold. Backward masking was discussed in terms of two contrasting views of the auditory system: the classical auditory nervous system alone and a parallel system combining the classical auditory and the reticular sensory systems. Speculations were made for each system regarding the type of AER expected for a stimulus submerged in backward masking. The mechanism responsible for backward masking was seen as a preperceptual device that allows discrete samples of the auditory environment to be processed. This mechanism was discussed in terms of its possible relation to forward masking and to loudness enhancement.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 4","pages":"279-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17603008","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":"A computer program for estimating thresholds by means of Wetherill's Up-Down Transformed Response Rule (UDTR).","authors":"E C Carterette","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A Fortran IV computer program is presented which allows for automatic estimation of thresholds on an S-shaped psychometric curve by means of Wetherill's Up-Down Transformed Response Rule (UDTR). The efficiency and asymptotic properties of these rules are discussed and illustrated. The main program is in the form of a keyboard portable tutorial which calls the main decision-making subroutine. The subroutine can be detached from the tutorial. Only a single call with seven parameters is required to reach the subroutine. The program is particularly useful in forced-choice procedures.</p>","PeriodicalId":76646,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of auditory research","volume":"24 3","pages":"191-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17607922","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}