Accommodation and evaluation of binaural amplification for children with hearing impairment

我们进行了一系列的研究，以考察在噪声环境下，有听力损失和无听力损失的个体在安装双耳扩音器时对声音定位和语音识别的影响。结果表明，在噪声中，声音定位能力和语音识别能力都得到了改善。另外的工作考察了声音定位和声音空间识别之间的关系。这项工作的结果导致制定了调查问卷，以检查为学龄儿童提供双耳放大服务的效果。未来将进行验证学龄期听力障碍儿童问卷的工作。

A series of studies were conducted to examine the effects on sound localization and speech recognition in noise for individuals with/without hearing loss when they were provided with binaural amplification. Results demonstrated improvement in both sound localization abilities and speech recognition in noise. Additional work examined the relationship between sound localization and sound spatial recognition. Results of this work have led to the development of questionnaires to examine the effects of binaural amplification provision for school-aged children. Future work will be conducted to validate the questionnaire on school-aged children with hearing impairment.