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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Auditory handicap of hearing impairment and the limited benefit of hearing aids
Beteiligte:
Plomp, Reinier
Erschienen:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 1978
Erschienen in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1121/1.381753
ISSN:
0001-4966;
1520-8524
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>The aim of this article is to promote a better understanding of hearing impairment as a communicative handicap, primarily in noisy environments, and to explain by means of a quantitative model the essentially limited applicability of hearing aids. After data on the prevalence of hearing impairment and of auditory handicap have been reviewed, it is explained that every hearing loss for speech can be interpreted as the sum of a loss class A (attenuation), characterized by a reduction of the levels of both speech signal and noise, and a loss D (distortion), comparable with a decrease in speech-to-noise ratio. On the average, the hearing loss of class D (hearing loss in noise) appears to be about one-third (in decibels) of the total hearing loss (A+D, hearing loss in quiet). A hearing aid can compensate for class-A hearing losses, giving difficulties primarily in quiet, but not for class-D hearing losses, giving difficulties primarily in noise. The latter class represents the first stage of auditory handicap, beginning at an average hearing loss of about 24 dB.</jats:p>