Hearing Impaired Persons - Rehabilitation
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Middle ear implantable hearing devices: an overview.

30 Aug 2009 Hearing loss affects approximately 30 million people in the United States. It has been estimated that only approximately 20% of people with hearing loss significant enough to warrant amplification actually seek assistance for amplification. A ... Read more...

Auditory midbrain implant: a review.

30 Aug 2009 The auditory midbrain implant (AMI) is a new hearing prosthesis designed for stimulation of the inferior colliculus in deaf patients who cannot sufficiently benefit from cochlear implants. The authors have begun clinical trials in which five ... Read more...

The effects of bilateral electric and bimodal electric--acoustic stimulation on language development.

24 Aug 2009 There is no doubt that cochlear implants have improved the spoken language abilities of children with hearing loss, but delays persist. Consequently, it is imperative that new treatment options be explored. This study evaluated one aspect of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hearing Impaired Persons - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Middle ear implantable hearing devices: an overview. 30 Aug 2009
• Auditory midbrain implant: a review. 30 Aug 2009
• The effects of bilateral electric and bimodal electric--acoustic stimulation on language development. 24 Aug 2009
• [Hearing rehabilitation by means of implantable hearing devices] 27 Feb 2009
• [Bone anchored hearing aids (BAHA)] 27 Feb 2009
• [Semi-implantable hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss and combined hearing loss: experiences at the German Armed Forces Hospital in Ulm] 27 Feb 2009
• [Fully implantable hearing systems] 27 Feb 2009
• Hearing loss. 30 Jan 2009
• [Organization of medico-genetic counseling for hereditary hearing impairment] 30 Dec 2008
• Veteran teachers' use of recommended practices in deaf education. 30 Dec 2008
• Roles and responsibilities of itinerant specialist teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students. 30 Dec 2008
• Evaluating the benefit of hearing aids in solving the cocktail party problem. 29 Nov 2008
• A study of low-cost, robust assistive listening system (ALS) based on digital wireless technology. 30 Oct 2008
• Communication as an ecological system. 30 Oct 2008
• Deafblindness, ontological security, and social recognition. 30 Oct 2008
• Are individual differences in speech reception related to individual differences in cognitive ability? A survey of twenty experimental studies with normal and hearing-impaired adults. 30 Oct 2008
• Cognitive development in children with cochlear implants: relations to reading and communication. 30 Oct 2008
• Development of speech intelligibility and narrative abilities and their interrelationship three and five years after paediatric cochlear implantation. 30 Oct 2008
• Long-term outcomes of cochlear implantation in the preschool years: from elementary grades to high school. 30 Oct 2008
• Improvement in speech-reading ability by auditory training: Evidence from gender differences in normally hearing, deaf and cochlear implanted subjects. 28 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Hearing Impaired Persons'

Definition: Persons with any degree of loss of hearing that has an impact on their activities of daily living or that requires special assistance or intervention.

Descriptor UI: D019986

Alternative terms: Hearing Impaired Persons; Hearing Impaired Person; Person, Hearing Impaired; Persons, Hearing Impaired; Deaf Persons; Deaf Person; Person, Deaf; Persons, Deaf; Hard of Hearing Persons; Persons With Hearing Impairments;

Related Mesh Headings: Deafness; Deaf-Blind Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.150.400;

History Note: 98