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Development of the Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP).

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The PHAP, a 66-item self-administered inventory that quantifies performance with a hearing aid in everyday life using both seven-score and four-score profiles, has been evaluated using groups consisting mainly of elderly hearing aid wearers having mild to moderate hearing impairments.
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This paper reports the development of the Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP), a 66-item self-administered inventory that quantifies performance with a hearing aid in everyday life using both...

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Development of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory

TL;DR: The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory is a self-report measure that can be used in a busy clinical practice to quantify the impact of tinnitus on daily living and yielded excellent internal consistency reliability.
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The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ).

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.
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The Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit

TL;DR: The Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit is a 66-item self-assessment, disability-based inventory that can be used to document the wearer's hearing aid benefit.
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Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit

TL;DR: A shortened version of the Profile of hearing aid benefit, to be called the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, or APHAB, which uses a subset of 24 of the 66 items from the PHAB, scored in four 6-item sub-scales is developed.
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Speech recognition as a function of the number of electrodes used in the SPEAK cochlear implant speech processor

TL;DR: In this paper, the Nucleus-22 SPEAK speech processing strategy as a function of the number of electrodes was evaluated in patients with cochlear implant hearing devices, and it was shown that the output of several adjacent filters were directed to a single electrode, resulting in processors with 1, 2, 4, 7, 10 and 20 electrodes.
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Psychometric theory (2nd ed.).

Rosedith Sitgreaves
- 01 Jan 1979 - 
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The hearing handicap inventory for the elderly: a new tool.

TL;DR: The reliability and validity of the HHIE as well as its brevity, simplicity, and ease of administration and interpretation all recommend its use in assessing hearing handicap in the elderly.
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Development of the Communication Profile for the Hearing Impaired

TL;DR: The rationale and methods used to develop the CPHI, a 145-item self-assessment inventory for adults, are discussed, and normative data for the Walter Reed population are presented.
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