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Evaluation of Different Phone Solutions in CI and Hearing Aid Users and Bimodal Recipients
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating standard telephone setting, DECT, and 2 other interventions for Hearing Loss, Binaural and Hearing Loss, Monaural. Completed, enrolled 25 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Communication on telephone is challenging for people with hearing loss. For hearing aid users, for instance, the inventions for improving speech intelligibility on the phone range from an integrated tele coil and individual hearing programs to specially designed phone devices. No formal studies involving these devices have been carried out with CI users. Thus, this comparative study includes hearing aid as well as CI and bimodal users to evaluate different hearing solutions for communication on telephone in terms of intelligibility and ease of use.
Study Details
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Interventions
without streaming function
cordless telephone (streaming to both hearing devices)
accessories for Bluetooth capable mobile telephones (streaming to both hearing devices)
streaming function, which provides the speech signal to both ears