Effects of Hearing Aid Use on Speech Discrimination and Listening Effort
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 47 (2) , 189-193
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.4702.189
Abstract
Effects of hearing-aid use on measures of speech discrimination and listening effort were investigated in 23 hearing-impaired adults. Speech discrimination testing was conducted with and without hearing aid use. A probe reaction time task was performed simultaneously to assess the amount of listening effort devoted to the speech discrimination task. The results indicated that hearing aid use improved speech discrimination and reduced listening effort. The probe reaction time task may have potential as an objective measure of listening effort in hearing-impaired individuals.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Processing Demands During Auditory Learning Under Degraded Listening ConditionsJournal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1978
- Recognition: Memory for words correctly heard in noisePsychonomic Science, 1966