A comparison of physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech to subjective judgments of audibility threshold, MCL and UCL for three normally hearing listeners

This study investigates the relation between physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech and subjective judgments of auditory threshold, most-comfortable listening level (MCL) and uncomfortable-listening level (UCL) for three normally hearing listeners.

Acoustic phonetics applied to auditory training and the teaching of speech to the hearing impaired

This paper is a review of acoustic phonetics as applied to auditory training for hearing impaired children.

The intelligibility of speech through phonetic transcription

This paper analyzes the phonetic accuracy of both hearing-impaired and normal-hearing individuals’ speech production.

Meaningful use of speech scale: application to orally educated hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine whether the use of meaningful speech in everyday situations is independent of a cochlear implant.

Comparison of speech processor MAP minimum (T) and maximum (C) levels with psychophysical thresholds and maximum acceptable loudness levels in users of the Nucleus 22 cochlear implant system

This paper discusses the Nucleus 22 cochlear implant.

Predicting for the hearing impaired the intelligibility of different kinds of speech materials

This paper discusses a study to define the function relating the scores for hearing impaired listeners on four different speech materials.

Perception of speech through a 500 Hz low-pass filter: sensory aids and communication strategies

This paper reviews a study to investigate how a hearing impaired person can learn to discriminate speech distorted by a low pass filter in a sensory aid.

Monaural and binaural loudness summation of speech

This paper reviews a study to determine optimum hearing aid settings based on loudness.

Perception of speech through a 500 Hz low-pass filter: sensory aids and communication strategies

This paper reviews a study to investigate how a hearing impaired person can learn to discriminate speech distorted by a low pass filter in a sensory aid.

Auditory speech-discrimination as a function of age and type of audiogram

This paper reviews a study to determine if loss of speech discrimination is related to age and patients with audiograms showing steep high-frequency losses.

Speech intelligibility in noise-induced hearing loss: effects of high-frequency compensation

This dissertation examines the frequency response that results in the maximum level of speech intelligibility for persons with noise-induced hearing loss.

Performance of postlinguistically deaf cochlear implant patients on the connected speech test (version 3)

This paper discusses a study on postlingual cochlear implantees and the effectiveness of the CST in evaluating enhancement of speech recognition abilities.

Effect of unilateral hearing loss on the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response in the presence of noise

Speech-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were acquired in quiet and in the presence of noise at two study sessions to investigate 1) test-retest variability and 2) subcortical representation of speech stimuli. Participants were adults with normal hearing in both ears who listened monaurally and adults with unilateral deafness. Results indicate consistency in responses across sessions and several differences between hearing groups for magnitudes of discrete components.

Intonation contours vs. syntactic structure as predictors of apparent segmentation

This paper is a review of a study on perception and comprehension of speech using syntactic, visual and acoustic information.

A technique to train auditory and visual memory for speech patterns in young hearing-impaired children

This paper details a technique for training auditory memory for length of speech sounds in preschool children with a profound hearing loss.