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Feasibility of Speech Testing Using Wireless Connection in Single-Sided Cochlear Implant Users

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The speech tests used to evaluate language performance in patients with bilateral deafness (BiD) and cochlear implant (CI) are problematic if applied to patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) because normal ear hearing should be excluded. Thus, we investigated the feasi...

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Autores principales: Bae, Seong Hoon, Jung, Youngrak, Hur, Ji Hye, Kim, Jeong Ha, Choi, Jae Young
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Audiological Society and Korean Otological Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37340773
http://dx.doi.org/10.7874/jao.2023.00017
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author Bae, Seong Hoon
Jung, Youngrak
Hur, Ji Hye
Kim, Jeong Ha
Choi, Jae Young
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description BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The speech tests used to evaluate language performance in patients with bilateral deafness (BiD) and cochlear implant (CI) are problematic if applied to patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) because normal ear hearing should be excluded. Thus, we investigated the feasibility of using wireless connection to evaluate speech intelligibility of the CI ear in patients with SSD. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Patients with BiD and SSD were administered the word recognition scores (WRS) and speech intelligibility tests using an iPad-based wireless connection and conventional methods. To exclude normal side hearing in patients with SSD, masking noise and “plugged and muffed” method were used in the WRS and speech intelligibility tests, respectively. RESULTS: In patients with BiD, the WRS and speech intelligibility tests results using wireless connection and conventional methods were similar. In patients with SSD, the WRS using masking noise in the normal hearing ear was similar to that of using wireless connection. However, 3 of 11 patients with SSD showed under-masked results if using the “plugged and muffed” method. CONCLUSIONS: Speech intelligibility testing using wireless connection is a convenient and reliable method for evaluating CI performance in patients with SSD. The “plugged and muffed” method is not recommended for evaluating CI performance in patients with SSD.
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spelling pubmed-103526902023-07-19 Feasibility of Speech Testing Using Wireless Connection in Single-Sided Cochlear Implant Users Bae, Seong Hoon Jung, Youngrak Hur, Ji Hye Kim, Jeong Ha Choi, Jae Young J Audiol Otol Original Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The speech tests used to evaluate language performance in patients with bilateral deafness (BiD) and cochlear implant (CI) are problematic if applied to patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) because normal ear hearing should be excluded. Thus, we investigated the feasibility of using wireless connection to evaluate speech intelligibility of the CI ear in patients with SSD. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Patients with BiD and SSD were administered the word recognition scores (WRS) and speech intelligibility tests using an iPad-based wireless connection and conventional methods. To exclude normal side hearing in patients with SSD, masking noise and “plugged and muffed” method were used in the WRS and speech intelligibility tests, respectively. RESULTS: In patients with BiD, the WRS and speech intelligibility tests results using wireless connection and conventional methods were similar. In patients with SSD, the WRS using masking noise in the normal hearing ear was similar to that of using wireless connection. However, 3 of 11 patients with SSD showed under-masked results if using the “plugged and muffed” method. CONCLUSIONS: Speech intelligibility testing using wireless connection is a convenient and reliable method for evaluating CI performance in patients with SSD. The “plugged and muffed” method is not recommended for evaluating CI performance in patients with SSD. The Korean Audiological Society and Korean Otological Society 2023-07 2023-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10352690/ /pubmed/37340773 http://dx.doi.org/10.7874/jao.2023.00017 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Korean Audiological Society and Korean Otological Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Feasibility of Speech Testing Using Wireless Connection in Single-Sided Cochlear Implant Users
title_sort feasibility of speech testing using wireless connection in single-sided cochlear implant users
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10352690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37340773
http://dx.doi.org/10.7874/jao.2023.00017
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