Publication details
Binaurální korekce sluchové vady
| Title in English | Binaural Correction of the Hearing Loss |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Otorinolaryngologie a foniatrie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | ORL, ophthalmology, stomatology |
| Keywords | binaural hearing, hearing aid correction |
| Description | The first part of the contribution summarizes theoretical aspects of binaural hearing and presents its physical and physiological principles. The main advantage of binaural hearing includes binaural summation, directional hearing, elimination of the head shaddow effect as well as an increased signal-to-noise ratio in the central hearing organ. The authors discuss monaural and binaural correction with the hearing aid and present advantages of binaural correction which, among other things, exert a lower amplification on the hearing organ and enables the space and directional hearing and, especially, offer a better intelligibility of speech on the background noise. The second part of the contribution presents the results of evaluation a group of patients, who use binaural correction with hearing aid permanently and become adapted to them. The evaluation was based on the questionnare results filled out by the users, as well as the results of the discrimination test, which evaluated understanding of a standard set of words on the background noise with a precisely defined signal-to-noise ratios. Both kinds of evalutation proved that the use of hearing aid on both ears is of a definitive advantage in most cases and provides a substantial improvement of hearing comfort and speech intelligibility. It should be therefore a method of choice especially for persons in the active age period and generally in patiens with higher requirements for communication abilities. |