Conference Abstracts

Hearing Aid Amplification for the New Millennium

15 - 19 November 1999, Sydney, Australia

Presented by the National Acoustic Laboratories  in association with the Cooperative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation.

The abstracts are arranged in alphabetical order of the presenters' surnames.  You may click on the links below to find the presenter you want, or scroll to find the title if you do not have the presenter's name.  Click at the title to open the abstract.

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Presenter Abstract Title
A to B  
Jeremy Agnew

The Optimization of Binaural Hearing with Hearing Aids

Lara Bagby

Advances in Hearing Aid Technology: The DigiFocus II

Christopher Barker

Selecting Compression Thresholds for Automation of Volume Control in Single Channel Programmable Aids: Results of Two Field Studies

Richard Bishop

Macro-audiology and Hearing Aids

Victor Bray

Clinical Trial Results with a New 9-Channel DSP Hearing Aid

Victor Bray

Comparison of Two Non-linear, Multi-channel Fitting Algorithms

Victor Bray

Use of a Quality System to Improve Product Performance

Eric Burwood

Getting a Buzz Out of Hearing Aids

Denis Byrne

Now that Hearing Aids Can Do Almost Anything, What Should They Do to be Really Helpful?

Denis Byrne

How do NAL-NL1 Prescription Principles Agree with Hearing Aid Fitting Objectives?

Denis Byrne, Harvey Dillon, Teresa Ching, Richard Katsch and Gitte Keidser

The NAL-NL1 Non-linear Hearing Aid Fitting Procedure: Characteristics and Comparisons with Other Procedures

C to D
Teresa Ching, Harvey Dillon, Richard Katsch and Denis Byrne

Maximising Effective Audibility in Hearing Aid Fitting

Teresa Ching

What's Different About Children?

Teresa Ching, Colleen Psarros and Mandy Hill

Optimising Hearing Aid Fittings of Children Who Also Use Cochlear Implants

Jodi A. Cook

Comparing Objective & Subjective Measures of Speech Recognition in Experienced Hearing Aid Users

Robert Cowan

Cooperative Research Centre - A bridge between research and consumers

Robyn Cox

Seeking the Secrets of Satisfaction

Robyn Cox

Contributions Of Non-Hearing Aid Variables To Subjective Hearing Aid Fitting Outcome

Adrian Davis

What Evidence Base Do We Need to Introduce New Technology into Hearing Services?

Harvey Dillon

Look How Far Hearing Aids Have Come

Harvey Dillon, Inge Roe, Denis Byrne and Herbie Baechler

Methods for Limiting the Maximum Output of Hearing Aids

Harvey Dillon

What Do Busy Clinicians Value And Hate About Outcomes Measures?

Harvey Dillon, Inge Roe, and Richard Katsch

Wind Noise in Hearing Aids

Donald D. Dirks, Sumiko Takayanagi, Anahita Moshfegh, Stephen Fausti and Douglas Noffsinger

Lexical Factors Affecting Spoken Word Recognition

Ole Dyrlund Advanced Hearing Aid Functions
E to I
Brent Edwards

Fitting Advanced Digital Technology in the Digital 5000

Claus Elberling

Acoustical Verification of Advanced Hearing Aids

Mimi Farah

Natura Digital Hearing Instrument

Peter Finnerup and Arthur Schaub

From DSP Technology to User Benefits

Stuart Gatehouse

Benefits from Hearing Aid Services - What, Who, When, and How Do We Know?

Stuart Gatehouse

Localisation in Noise, SNHL, and Hearing Aids

Stuart Gatehouse

The Role of Auditory Ecology in Disability and Hearing Aid Benefit

Gary Gow

Digital Feedback Suppression

Louise Hickson

Who Wants to Wear a Hearing Aid?

Mandy Hill, Teresa Y C Ching, and David Tomkinson

Functional Assessment of Auditory Performance for Hearing Aid Evaluation

Bjorn Israelsson

A New Device Allowing Fast and Blind Paired Comparison Between Different Hearing Aids - Acoustic Characteristics

K to L
Mary Kalantzis

SENSO 100% DSP - Sensogram and Latest Developments

Gitte Keidser and Frances Grant

Evaluation of Loudness Equalisation versus Loudness Normalisation

Gitte Keidser, Frances Grant, Harvey Dillon and Richard Katsch

Is Loudness Data the Right Ingredient For Hearing Aid Fitting?

Polly S. H. Lau and Lena L.N. Wong

The Effect of Type and Level of Noise on Long-term Average Speech Spectrum

Stefan Launer and Herbert Bachler

Digital Signal Processing Controlled by Perception Models: 'Perception Processing'

Susan Lear and Field W. Rickards

The Accuracy of Functional Gain and Insertion Gain Measurement in Pre-school Children

Arne Leijon and Peter Nordqvist

Acoustical Specification of Non-linear Hearing Instruments

Eric L. LePage and Ake Olofsson

The Dependence of Place and Periodicity Coding upon Aging and upon Gain

Carl Ludvigsen, Widex

Fitting Strategies for Advanced Signal Processing Hearing Aids

M to R
Robyn Massie, Denis Byrne, Deborah Theodoros, Bradley McPherson, Joseph Smaldino

Short Term Effects of Sound Field Classroom Intervention on the Communication of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

Hugh McDermott

Perceptual Characteristics of a Sloping High-frequency Hearing Loss and the Effects of Frequency Transposition

Beth McLeod and Laurie Upfold

A Comparison of 3 Frequency Average Hearing Levels of Publicly and Privately Funded Hearing Aid Clients

Donald E. Morgan and Gabrielle H. Saundersl

Prediction vs. Measurement of TM SPL

Ludwig Moser Electro-acoustic measurement of hearing aids with digital signal processing - what is needed in addition to the standards IEC-118 and ANSI-3222?
Narelle Murray, Eric LePage, Greg Birtles, Donna Smith, Annette Smith and Lindsay Hamilton and Lesley Beacham

To Fit or Not to Fit: Consideration of Case Studies of Severe Disabilities

William Noble

Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids in the Family

Bob Oliveira

Improve Physical Fitting of Hearing Aids - A Renewed Approach

Bob Oliveira

Tips for Success with Hearing Components' Accessories for Improving Hearing Aid Performance and Reliability

Field W. Rickards , Susan Lear , Dianne Toe and Richard C. Seewald

The Effect of Output Limiting Levels upon the Speech Perception Skills of Congenitally Impaired Adolescents

Anders Ringdahl, Lennart Magnusson, Pamela Edberg, Lena Thelin and Bjorn Israelsson

Digital Non-linear, Digital Linear, and Analog Hearing Aids Evaluated by Severely Hearing Impaired Subjects in a Blinded Crossover Study

S to T
Linnett Sanchez

How Common is Hearing Loss?

Jennifer Smith

Clinical Observations on a Digital Hearing Aid Trial in a Secondary School for the Deaf

Dafydd Stephens, Ioanis Gianopoulos and Adrian Davis

Long Term Follow-Up of Patients Fitted with Hearing Aids

Lydia Storey, Harvey Dillon

Locating Probe Microphone Effectively and Microphone Location Effects

Peter W Stubbing

Delivering the Promise of Technology

Robert Sweetow

Counselling Strategies for High Tech Hearing Aid Fittings

Robert Sweetow

Yippee, I’m getting new digital hearing aids, so I won’t have to listen anymore!

Stephen C. Thompson

Why use two microphones in a directional hearing aid?

U to Z
Greg Upfold and Judy Taylor

Hearing Hats: An Alternative Amplification System for Children with Atresia

Patricia Van Buynder, Teresa Ching, Mandy Hill, Greg Birtles, Lesley Beecham and David Tomkinson

Use of Paired Comparison Assessment in the Clinic to Evaluate Hearing Aid Fittings of Severely/Profoundly Hearing-impaired Children

Dianne J. Van Tasell, William S. Woods, Rachael A. Frush

Selecting Parameters for Multi-Channel Compression

J. Verschuure, A. Goedegebure, W.A. Dreschler

Comfort and Speech Intelligibility with Fast Compression

J. Verschuure, A. Goedegebure, A.J.J. Maas, W.A. Dreschler

Technical and Perceptive Aspects of Fast Compression Hearing Aids

J. Verschuure, A. Goedegebure, M. Metselaar, W.A. Dreschler, M. Boymans

Testing of Modern Hearing Aids in Field Trials

Gary Walker

Amplification for People with Conductive and Mixed Hearing Loss

Matthias Wesselkamp

Advances in Hearing Instrument Technology

Matthias Wesselkamp and Jurgen Kiesling

User Benefit of Two Different Hearing Aid Fitting Approaches

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