Hearing impairment hearing loss
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum
Eligibility
Age
12 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age between 18 and 80 years, native Dutch speaker, normal or corrected to normal eyesight, for normally hearing listeners: age -normal hearing according to ISO 7029, 2000, for listeners with hearing loss: pure tone hearing thresholds (average across 1, 2, 4 kHz) of at least 25 dB HL in at least one ear. ;For experiment 4C: Aged 12 years up to and including 16 years, native speakers of Dutch, normal or corrected-to-normal eyesight. Listeners with hearing loss should use at least one hearing aid in daily-life. Furthermore the hearing-impaired children should have a moderately to severe binaural sensorineural hearing loss (* 35 dB HL and * 70 dB HL for both ears), and be experienced hearing aid users. Children with normal hearing should have air-conduction pure-tone thresholds of max. 20 dB HL at the octave frequencies between 500 and 4000 Hz.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: dyslexia or other reading problems, history of neurological or psychiatric diseases, eye diseases such as caused by diabetes mellitus and cataract.;Supplementary for experiment 4C: General exclusion criteria: not being able to attend regular education schools. For the hearing impaired children unilateral and conductive hearing losses are excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Performance on a speech perception in noise test, pupil response. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Performance on the cognitive tasks and questionnaires. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed