Self-assessment of classroom assistive listening devices

Odelius, Johan; Johansson, Örjan

doi:10.3109/14992021003645886

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“…Older students provide many statements concerning increased options for being flexible and not being limited because of the hearing loss and the use of a hearing loop (Wennergren 2004). In a similar vein Odelius and Johansson (2007) found in a study of 15 pupils that pupils had a strong preference for the m-setting on the hearing aid. As the amount of explanations show, it also demands a higher degree of consciousness and more detailed knowledge about individual needs connected to the hearing loss.…”

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The Best Listening Environment in School According to Hard-of-hearing Pupils

Wennergren

2008

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The aim of this study was to illuminate the listening strategies which are revealed when pupils described their choice of the ''best listening environment'' in school. The study comprises 165 hard-of-hearing pupils from five compulsory schools in Sweden. The results are mainly based on the pupils' drawings and their attached written explanations. The pupils' explanations are analysed in the form of four different needs associated with being a listener: a ''cleaned-up'' sound environment, visual support, conversation rules and comfortable surroundings. The explanations can be seen as reflective knowledge and experiences of listening strategies. Not every pupil in this study has a verbalised awareness of listening strategies in all categories but, as a community, they describe a lot of experiences and knowledge to be shared. How to take the role of listener and continuously develop new strategies might be a matter of self-image.

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The Best Listening Environment in School According to Hard-of-hearing Pupils

Wennergren

2008

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Shortened forms have been developed (e.g. Akeroyd and Guy, 2011; Helfer et al, 2009; Demeester et al, 2012; Keidser et al, 2009; Kiessling et al, 2011; Odelius and Johansson, 2010; Noble et al, 2012, 2013); there are translations into Arabic, Danish, Dutch, German, and Swedish (Kiessling et al, 2011; Kobler et al, 2010; Most et al, 2012; van Wieringen et al, 2011), and a parental version has been developed (Galvin et al, 2007, 2010). There are also two versions designed for directly measuring the benefit of an intervention or the comparison of one intervention with another, namely SSQ-B and SSQ-C (Jensen et al 2009).…”

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A factor analysis of the SSQ (Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale)

Akeroyd

Guy

Harrison

et al. 2013

International Journal of Audiology

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ObjectiveThe speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing questionnaire (SSQ) is a self-report test of auditory disability. The 49 items ask how well a listener would do in many complex listening situations illustrative of real life. The scores on the items are often combined into the three main sections or into 10 pragmatic subscales. We report here a factor analysis of the SSQ that we conducted to further investigate its statistical properties and to determine its structure.DesignStatistical factor analysis of questionnaire data, using parallel analysis to determine the number of factors to retain, oblique rotation of factors, and a bootstrap method to estimate the confidence intervals.Study sample1220 people who have attended MRC IHR over the last decade.ResultsWe found three clear factors, essentially corresponding to the three main sections of the SSQ. They are termed “speech understanding”, “spatial perception”, and “clarity, separation, and identification”. Thirty-five of the SSQ questions were included in the three factors. There was partial evidence for a fourth factor, “effort and concentration”, representing two more questions.ConclusionsThese results aid in the interpretation and application of the SSQ and indicate potential methods for generating average scores.

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“…A very limited number of studies on IL systems are also available in the literature [12,13,14]. Audibility and awareness have often been explored with assisted listening devices.…”

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The effect of induction loop system use training on adults with hearing aids

Özay¹,

Özay²,

Gürkan³

et al. 2021

Turk J Med Sci

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Background/aim: The study aimed to investigate the effect of training in hearing aid users to benefit from induction loop systems. Materials and methods: A five-question scale was developed to evaluate whether individuals using hearing aids could use the induction loop system effectively and validity-reliability studies were performed with 264 individuals using hearing aids. In its second step, 30 individuals using hearing aids were given verbal and hands-on training on the induction loop system. Before and after training with hearing aids (noiseless, noise, noise + induction system active) in three different environments, questions on the scale were asked twice in total from the beginning to the end of the study. Results: The significance of the differences between the values obtained as a result of the application of word lists in three different test settings was examined by repeating measurements variance analysis. As a result of post hoc analyse, p=0.002 between test 3 (10.7,1.53), test 1(11.7, 0.7) were calculated. There appears to be a statistically significant difference with the present situation (p<0.01). The average scores of the scale between pre-and post-training applications as a preliminary and final test were analyzed with the t test. The final test average was statistically significantly greater than the preliminary test (p<0.01). Conclusion: This study shows how important it is for hearing aids users to be informed about this and to receive the necessary training in order to gain the expected benefit 2 from induction loop systems developed to improve speech intelligibility in noisy environments.

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Self-assessment of classroom assistive listening devices

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

The Best Listening Environment in School According to Hard-of-hearing Pupils

The Best Listening Environment in School According to Hard-of-hearing Pupils

A factor analysis of the SSQ (Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale)

The effect of induction loop system use training on adults with hearing aids

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