THE SPEECH-TEST CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH BINAURAL HEARING AID

Golubok-Abizova T(1), Deyeva Y (2). 

(1) Kiev Regional Hospital, Ukraine;(2) Bogomolet`s Natiomal MedicalUniversity, Ukraine.

Background: Speech recognition is plays most important role in the hearing aids tecknik. That’s why the investigations of speech test before and after binaural hearing aids is very actual.

Aim: The aim of our investigation was to recognize the results of speech-test before and after binaural hearing aid.

Methods:The 29 patients (experimental group) with symmetries sensorineural hearing impairment were undergone the pure-tone and speech audiometry before and 1 year aften performing the binaural hearing aid. And 21 monaurally aided patients (control group) were andegone the same investigation.

Results:The results revealed significant increasing of speech intelligibility in 86,2% patients with binaural fittings after 1 year of hearing aids using camparing with monaurally aided patients.

Conclusion:The findings are consistent with the presence of an auditory deprivation effect on word-recognition in speech test. Our results indicate the preference of binaural hearing aid comparing with monaural. In patients with symmetric sensorineural hearing loss.

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