Effectiveness of visual feedback provided by an electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) system: training vowel production in individuals with hearing impairment

An electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) system was used to provide a participant with congenital hearing loss visual biofeedback information on speech production. Five normally hearing listeners reported a change in their perception of the speech sound /æ/ in the various conditions of the study.

A test of auditory-visual speech perception for hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a test for speech perception and scoring to test likelihood of success with mainstreaming.

Dynamic visual acuity following high-frequency head vibration

In order to evaluate high-frequency VOR function, the effects of different types of motion on visual acuity were evaluated in asymptomatic and symptomatic subjects. A new testing protocol of evaluating vestibular function was developed in an effort to enhance current treatment protocols.

Auditory and audio-visual reception of words in noise by observers with normal and impaired hearing

This dissertation examines auditory perception and audio-visual reception in noise for both hearing-impaired and normal hearing persons, with a goal of determining some of the noise conditions under which amplified acoustic cues for speech can be beneficial to hearing-impaired persons.

Comparative study of the Gaze Stabilization Test (GST) and the Dynamic Visual Acuity Test (DVAT) for detecting patients with unilateral vestibular dysfunction

This paper compares the use of two diagnostic tests, Gaze Stabilization Test (GST) and the Dynamic Visual Acuity Test (DVAT) to detect unilateral vestibular dysfunction.

The discrimination of auditory and visual number

This study compares the discrimination of successive visual number and successive auditory number using the same stimulus durations and presentation rates for both stimuli. The accuracy of the discrimination of successive number decreased as the presentation rate increased and the number in a series increased.

Visual perceptual skills, reading ability and the young deaf child

This paper is a review of a study investigating the relationship between visual perceptual skills and reading abilities of young deaf children.

Cross-modality temporal resolution for auditory, vibrotactile, and visual stimuli

This paper reviews a study of cross-modalities and within-modalities and their effects on speech perception.

Most comfortable listening levels of hearing impaired people: effects of everyday auditory and visual environments

This paper discusses a study to evaluate the changes that may occur in most comfortable listening levels when hearing aid users encounter a realistic auditory and visual environment.

Evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception in individuals diagnosed with dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Auditory-visual speech perception testing was completed using wordandconsonant-level stimuli in individuals with known degrees of dementia of theAlzheimer’s type. The correlations with the cognitive measures and the speechperception measures (A-only, V-only, AV, VE or AE) did not reveal significantrelationships.

Acceptance of earphones in children 12- to 24-months of age during visual reinforcement audiometry

Insert and circumaural earphones were used during visual reinforcement audiometry with children 12-to 24-months of age. Acceptance of earphones was determined by the number of ear specific thresholds obtained and by audiologist subjective ratings. Results indicate that children in this age range accept both types of earphones; however, significantly more ear specific thresholds were obtained using insert earphones compared to circumaural.

(Re) presentación de lo negro desde lo negro: prácticas de significación para la construcción de una memoria visual.

Los pueblos afroecuatorianos casi siempre hemos sido objetivados en los procesos de representación, siempre desde una mirada ajena y externa. Estas representaciones han tenido un lugar de enunciación (lugar de representación)desde la hegemonía dominante y a través de estas representaciones se han construido discursos y narrativas que establecen sistemas de clasificación, jerarquización y subaltenización de subjetividades, conocimientos, historias y procesos de los pueblos afroecuatorianos. En estos discursos se fundamentan muchas prácticas racializadas, discriminatorias y excluyentes. Esto no es más que una prolongación del sistema colonial, lo que Quijano ha llamado colonialidad del poder. Esta tesis tiene como objetivos, cuestionar y sobre todo problematizar estos regímenes y políticas de representación y además construir conceptualmente lo estoy entendiendo por memoria visual e iniciar un proceso con un grupo de jóvenes de la misma comunidad la (re)construcción de memoria visual de la comunidad de La Concepción ubicada en el Valle del Chota. La apuesta en este trabajo apunta que la (re)construcción de esta memoria visual, pueda ser una forma donde la comunidad se mire a si misma, a través de la producción de imágenes fotográficas para luego tener los diálogos visuales generacionales con los guardianes de la tradición y la gente de la comunidad sobre todo jóvenes y niños para ir dando sentido y significado a las fotografías, donde la mirada sea desde adentro. Así propone lugares de representación “otros” que tengan la potencialidad de irrumpir y desestabilizar los regímenes dominantes de representación