Home-Based Speech Perception Monitoring for Clinical Use With Cochlear Implant Users.

ABSTRACT: Speech-perception testing is essential for monitoring outcomes with a hearing aid or cochlear implant (CI). However, clinical care is time-consuming and often challenging with an increasing number of clients. A potential approach to alleviating some clinical care and possibly making room for other outcome measures is to employ technologies that assess performance in the home environment. In this study, we investigate 3 different speech perception indices in the same 40 CI users: phoneme identification (vowels and consonants), digits in noise (DiN) and sentence recognition in noise (SiN). The first two tasks were implemented on a tablet and performed multiple times by each client in their home environment, while the sentence task was administered at the clinic. Speech perception outcomes in

SUBMITTER: van Wieringen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669965 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature