The Wechsler-Bellevue and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children as predictors of academic achievement for a severely hearing and speech impaired population

This paper reviews a study to determine the applicabilty of the Wechsler-Bellevue and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for severely 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.

A comparison of three hearing aid manufacturers' recommended first fit to two generic prescriptive targets with the pediatric population

The purpose of this study is to compare three hearing aid manufacturers' recommended "First Fit" to the generic recommended fittings by DSL i/o and NAL-NL1 for a 12 month old child with varying degrees of sensorineural hearing loss.

A survey on the concepts used in the hearing aid selection process for hearing-impaired adults

This paper is a review of current practices in 1976 among audiologists and hearing aid dealers in fitting of hearing aids for adults.

A Russian language speech discrimination test for clinical audiometry

This paper contains a speech discrimination test in the Russian language composed of fifty known Russian monosyllables.

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.

Speech audiometry in English, Portuguese, and Spanish

This paper is a review of speech audiometry materials in the following languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish.

The effect of electroacoustic adjustments of hearing aid battery drain

This paper reviews a study of hearing aid battery drain.

Subjective impressions of child cochlear-implant users: effects of conversational fluency, intelligibility, speech perception, and communication mode

This paper investigates the conversational fluency of young cochlear implant users. The study compares objective measures and subjective impressions of conversation fluency, relates how children’s communication skills influence both objective and subjective measures of conversational fluency, and compares the performance of children who use an oral mode with those who use a total communication mode in everyday conversation.

The effects of phonological and semantic priming in speech production

This paper is a review of experiments to investigate the influence of experimental task, level of processing, and time course in speech production via the priming paradigm.

An examination of the appropriateness of the CID grammatical analysis of elicted language as an instrument to compare language acquisition in deaf children enrolled in cued speech vs. oral and signed english programs

This paper discusses a study to compare test results of the CID GAEL test among hearing impaired children who are enrolled in cued speech vs. oral vs. signed english programs.

Detection of words in real-speech background noise by profoundly deaf children

This paper discusses a study to assess the performance of profoundly deaf children in detection tasks with speech as the background noise.

Identification of normal and abnormal acoustic speech patterns by profoundly hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine if profoundly hearing impaired children could identify acoustically normal speech patterns from abnormal speech patterns.

How the listener's experience influences the rating of the intelligibility of hearing-impaired children's speech

This paper discusses the importance of listener experience as a factor when developing intelligibility measures for hearing impaired children.

Methods for hearing aid selection and fitting

This paper is a review of hearing aid practices in Mexico.