Abstract:Purpose: To evaluate the speech perception of adult hearing aid users pre and post fine tuning based on Speech Mapping in Brazilian Portuguese (SMBP). Methods: Twenty adults aged 18 to 60 years old presenting moderate to severe bilateral symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss and wearing digital hearing aids programmed according to the prescriptive formula National Acoustics Labs, Non-Linear, version 1 (NAL-NL1) for at least six months participated in this study. The test Lists of Sentences in Portuguese (LSP)… Show more
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