Advanced hearing tests with amplification
Advanced hearing tests with amplification
Elborn College (EC)
Hearing tests typically include measuring the softest sound that can be detected in a soundproof booth. While this test is a good first indicator of someone's hearing, additional hearing skills may be needed to understand in real-world environments (such as an echoey room). Advanced hearing tests include the measurement of hearing the speed of changes in sound, the pitch of sound, gaps in sound, matching of sound between ears, the locations of sound, and the ability to process information from the two ears. We will correlate hearing aid outcome measures with these advanced hearing tests and will attempt to assess whether hearing aid benefit differs among groups of participants who vary in their hearing abilities. The results may help to explain variability in hearing aid outcomes across participants who have the same hearing test results on the current clinical hearing tests.
Both male and female
18+ years old
Volunteers with
hearing loss
Who can participate in this study?
What is involved?
Our study involves up to 4 visits during which participants will sit in a soundproof room and a reverberant room. Each visit is up to 2 hours.
Visit 1
• Hearing Test
• Impressions for both ears if hearing aids are being fit and custom molds are needed.
• If impressions are not required, listening tests described in Visit 2 will begin
Visit 2
• Hearing aid fitting by a registered audiologist (for participants with hearing loss)
• Probe microphone measure to ensure hearing aid is fit properly (if required)
Advanced Hearing Tests and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
• Indicating where a sound came from
• Rating the sound quality and loudness of speech and music
• Indicating your preference between different speech and music sound clips
• Indicating your listening effort level, either with responses on a rating scale or measured automatically using a desktop device that measures pupil size.
• Repeating speech back in noise. (When you repeat the words that are mixed with noise back to us out loud, your responses may be audio recorded. These recordings may be used to double-check the scoring or in other projects that are investigating speech and noise tests. There will be no identifying information included in the recording.)
• Indicating which sound is different in a series of three sounds using a tablet or computer.
Visit 3 & 4
• Listening Tests may continue until completed.
Principal Investigator & Posting Dates
Principal Investigator: Susan Scollie
Study posted on: October 6th, 2022
Recruitment open until: December 31st, 2024
Who can I contact to learn more about this study?
For more information about this study please contact:
Paula Folkeard, Research Audiologist
(519) 661-2111 Ext. 88936
folkeard@nca.uwo.ca
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