Hearing aid and children
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Jamileh Fatahi * |
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Abstract: (10060 Views) |
In order to develop oral communication, hearing impaired infants and young children must be able to hear speech comfortably and consistently. To day children with all degrees of hearing loss may be condidates for some kinds of amlification.As children differ from adults, many Factors should be consider in hearing aid selection, evaluation and fitting. For example the child age when he or she is candidate for custom instruments? Do we consider programmable Hearing aid? Are multi memory instruments appropriate for them? What about directional microphones? What style of hearing aid do we select? In this paper such questions are responded. |
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Keywords: Hearing Aid, Custom Hearing Aids, Directional Hearing Aids, Children, neonates, Desired Sensation Level, Wide Dynamic Range Compression |
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Type of Study: - |
Accepted: 2013/08/27 | Published: 2017/12/19
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