Epidemiology of congenital unilateral hearing loss in children

Shirane, Miho; Ushisako, Yasuaki; Yamamoto, Marino; Kondo, Kanako; Kurasawa, Michiko; Matsuda, Yusuke; Nakashima, Takahiro; Tono, Tetsuya

doi:10.4295/audiology.58.182

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“…According to reports from the US and Australia, the prevalence of UHL is estimated to range from 7.9% to 13.3% of the population [2,3]. In Japan, it is reported that 1-2 per 1,000 newborn babies have UHL [4]. The etiology of UHL varies, including cochlear nerve deficiency, congenital cytomegalovirus infection, and mumps in pediatric patients, as well as sudden sensorineural hearing loss and acoustic neuroma among others in adults [5].…”

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Hearing deficits and adaptation for those with unilateral hearing loss under reverberation

Tsuji,

Arai

2023

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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Individuals with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) experience difficulties in particular situations such as hearing in the presence of noise. Reverberation decreases speech intelligibility and has different effects on music for those with hearing loss. However, the effect of reverberation on UHL remains unclear. In this study, the degree of temporal resolution, the ability to hear out a melody and speech from a masker, and the degree of spatial release from masking (SRM) under a reverberation time of 1.6 s were measured under three hearing conditions namely, binaural normal hearing (BNH), and monaural normal hearing (MNH), and unilateral hearing loss (UHL). Under reverberation, participants with UHL required a higher sound pressure level of the target melody and speech to hear out from the masker and indicated a lower degree of SRM than those with BNH. However, participants with UHL showed improvements in listening effort in the gap detection task, thresholds in the melody matching and speech intelligibility task, and the degree of SRM compared with participants with MNH. Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between the degree of SRM in the speech task and the duration of UHL. Results suggest that the hearing of people with UHL could be improved by the adaptive contribution of some monaural cues under reverberation.

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