HEARING IMPAIRMENTS
There are millions of people in the world with hearing impairments. It is surprising that the special hearing needs of so large a group have been largely ignored for so long, especially when each of us faces the very real probability of joining that group through disease, trauma, or just by growing old.
The hearing impaired are not just the people who wear aids. In fact, only about 20% of the hearing impaired wear aids. Many people with hearing losses are able to function in close or face-to-face situations but are lost in noisy or reverberant settings. Even people who wear hearing aids have problems in reverberant rooms or where there is a high background noise level. Our standards for speech intelligibility are based upon ...
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