Stuart Gatehouse

TL;DR: It was found that identification, attention and effort problems, as well as spatial hearing problems, feature prominently in the disability-handicap relationship, along with certain features of speech hearing.

TL;DR: The Glasgow Benefit Inventory is an 18-item, postintervention questionnaire intended to be given to patients to fill in at home or in the outpatient clinic that is sensitive to the different ORL interventions, yet is sufficiently general to enable comparison between each pair of interventions.

TL;DR: The speech identification abilities of four subjects with bilateral symmetric sensorineural hearing impairment were investigated following provision of a single hearing aid, and the findings support the existence of perceptual acclimatization effects, and call into question short-term methods of hearing aid evaluation and selection by comparative speech identification tests.

TL;DR: The interaction between the audiometric and cognitive characteristics of listeners, and the test conditions under which speech identification procedures are conducted, shows that listeners with greater cognitive ability derive greater benefit from temporal structure in background noise when listening via fast time constants.

TL;DR: The participants in the Eriksholm Workshop on “Measuring Outcomes in Audiological Rehabilitation Using Hearing Aids” debated three issues that are reported in this article, including the concept of generating a brief universally applicable outcome measure.