Aural rehabilitation program generally consists of hearing aid fitting and orientation, auditory training, communication training, speech reading, communication strategies training, and so on. The negative effects of hearing impairment such as communication problem, isolation from others, and reduction of quality of life of older people through the aural rehabilitation program might be decreased. This article reviewed communication programs, auditory training, and aural rehabilitation programs for the Elderly-"Active Listening Training", "Keep on Talking Program", "ACE Program", "Home Education Program", "I-ACE Program", "LACE TM ". Speech perception was improved and effects of psychosocial function were decreased in elderly and their significant others. Quality of life also positively advanced after aural rehabilitation program. Aural rehabilitation program was working various forms with individual or group situation and home based/computer based state. This article critically reviews about general aural rehabilitation program for the elderly and observes aspects were expected in the future.
The purpose of this study was to develop Korean Consonant Perception Test (KCPT), that is a phonemic level including elementary data to evaluate speech and consonant perception ability of the normal and the hearing impaired qualitatively and quantitatively. KCPT was completed with meaningful monosyllabic words out of possible all Korean monosyllabic words, considering articulation characteristics, the degree of difficulty, and the frequency of the phonemic appearance, after assembling a tentative initial and final consonants testing items using four multiple-choice method which were applied to the seven final consonant regulation and controlled with the familiarity of the target words.Conclusively, the final three hundred items were developed including two-and one-hundred items for initial and final testing items, respectively, with the evaluation of the 20 normal hearing adults. Through this process, the final KCPT was composed upon the colloquial frequency following identification of no speakers' variances statistically and elimination of the highly difficult items. The 30 hearing impaired were tested with KCPT and found that the half lists, A and B, were not different statistically and the initial and final testing items were appropriate for evaluating initial and final consonants, respectively.
The purpose of this study was to investigate loudness growth perception including most comfortable level (MCL), uncomfortable level (UCL) for Korean with normal hearing. 48 subjects (24 males and 24 females) with the age ranged 19-24 (M 21.9 yr, SD 1.8) years were participated in this study. Loudness growth test (LGT) were examined by 7 categories using FM tone of 500 Hz, 3,000 Hz and Korean two syllable words. The results of LGT were as follows:1) There were no significant gender differences in all categories using FM tone of 500 and 3,000 Hz (p>0.05). 2) significant differences were noted for FM tone (500 Hz, 3,000 Hz) in MCL and UCL (p<0.01). 3) UCL for male's live voice was higher than female's one using Korean two syllable words (p<0.01). 4) Comparing LGT with Korean and English showed no significant differences (p>0.05). Loudness growth perception data for normals and hearingimpaired listeners should be considered to help hearing aid fitting for the Korean hearing impaired. KEY WORDS:Loudness growth test•MCL•UCL.
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to develop lists of phoneme perception tests for school-aged children.Methods: The 127 initial and 94 final consonant test items were modified by the difficulty level (reduced the number for the multiple-choice and controlled familiarity of target words and foil words). The validity of the results for normal hearing children was evaluated. Through discussions by experts in various fields, the target word list was revised. Words with a low percentage (<90%) of correct answers, vowel-consonant in an initial consonant test item, and consonant-vowel (CV) in final consonant item were eliminated and produced the last revised consonant perception test item for school-aged children.Results: The consonant test item consisted of three multiple-choice words type of consonant-vowel-consonant or CV. The 50 initial and 25 final consonant perception test items included the high degree of familiarity, corresponding frequency of phonemes for daily life speech sounds of children.Conclusion: To analyze the phoneme perception ability of school-age children by listening and to evaluate phoneme errors in children with congenital high frequency hearing loss, the results of this study are useful.
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