Narrative Comprehension Abilities of Children with Typical Hearing and Children Using Hearing Aids: A Pilot Study

No evidence for enhanced processing of speech that is low-pass filtered near the edge frequency of cochlear dead regions in children

“…The absence of significant differences in performance between the DR and NH groups and between the NODR and NH groups is consistent with a previous study comparing the perception of low-pass filtered speech for children with moderate-to-severe hearing loss and children with normal hearing (Zupan & Dempsey, 2013). However, in that study no test for DRs was performed, so it cannot be determined if there were any effects of DRs.…”