Completed: March 2022
This project aimed to create a diagnostic tool to identify individuals who have normal or nearly normal hearing, but still struggle to hear in noise.
Completed: March 2022
In this work, we pioneered a method with EEG measures where speech in noise was assessed using naturally spoken English sentences, presented at different levels of background noise.
Completed: February 2023
This project aimed to identify the information sources, sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle, and clinical history that led people to contact Hearing Australia clinics for hearing assessment.
Completed: February 2022
This study explores the factors that influence general practitioner (GP) decision making when referring their adult patients for a hearing assessment.
Completed: February 2023
The aim of the research was to gather information that can help us to define what a ‘perceived’ hearing loss is, to help make sure hearing aids are targeted towards those people who are most likely to benefit.
Completed: February 2023
The aim of this project was to predict when hearing aid users were most likely to prefer a directional microphone, ranging from omnidirectional to super directional, in realistic listening background noise conditions either when listening to a frontal talker or when not target talker was present.
Completed: November 2022
Exploring the views and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander caregivers regarding supporting hearing health and language development, the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander caregivers support the language of their children and exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander caregivers’ views towards audiological and speech pathology services.
Completed: November 2022
Improving the functionality and usability of a smartphone app, called NEMA (NAL Ecological Momentary Assessment) used in many NAL research studies to better understand the feelings, experiences, and hearing difficulties of people in different real-life situations.
Completed: November 2022
Designing and demonstrating the feasibility of three novel tests based on auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) – signals recorded from the brain that are associated with the activity of the neurons in response to sounds.
Completed: September 2022
Assessing the role of the My Hearing Explained tool in facilitating discussions between people with hearing loss (PHL) and their chosen communication partners (CP) regarding the hearing loss of the PHL and its consequences, with the goal to improve the CP’s understanding of the PHL’s hearing difficulties.
Completed: August 2022
How well can people with hearing loss understand speech on different videoconferencing technologies and how well do different hearing technologies improve that experience?
Completed: May 2022
To devise a clinical method for assessing discrimination of speech sounds in infants and young children; to relate early auditory detection and discrimination abilities to functional listening and language development.
Completed: April 2022
Investigate to what extent AirPods Pro improve the hearing experience of people with normal audiograms but speech-in-noise hearing difficulties, and whether the target population would continue using this technology in similar situations in the future
Completed: December 2021
Using a variety of methods to develop a new way of deciding who is most likely to benefit from hearing aids.
Completed: December 2021
The project will undertake a systematic review of relevant research to summarise the available evidence and identify gaps in the evidence on programs to detect hearing loss beyond UNHS.
Completed: October 2021
Determine enablers and barriers to the adoption of the PLUM and HATS tools, co-design strategies and provide training for caregivers.
Completed: June 2021
Investigating the effectiveness of early intervention on developmental outcomes of children with congenital unilateral hearing loss.
Completed: March 2021
Investigating the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial of hearing device fitting to compare the outcomes of children who are provided with early fitting of hearing devices to those who are not provided with hearing devices.
Phase 3 completed: November 2020
A population-based longitudinal study that prospectively evaluates the development of children with hearing loss.
