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Rapid Word-Learning in Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children: Effects of Age, Receptive Vocabulary, and High-Frequency Amplification by Pittman, A L, Lewis, D E, Hoover, B M, Stelmachowicz, P G

“…OBJECTIVE:This study examined rapid word-learning in 5- to 14-year-old children with normal and impaired hearing. The effects of age and receptive vocabulary…”
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Hearing Loss in Children and Adults: Audiometric Configuration, Asymmetry, and Progression by Pittman, A L, Stelmachowicz, P G

“…OBJECTIVEThe purpose of this study was to characterize the sensorineural hearing losses of a group of children and adults along three parameters important to…”
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Perception of Voiceless Fricatives by Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children and Adults by Pittman, Andrea L, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…A study examined perceptual-weighting strategies and performance-audibility functions of 11 children with moderate hearing impairments (HI), 11 age-matched…”
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Effect of stimulus bandwidth on the perception of /s/ in normal- and hearing-impaired children and adults by Stelmachowicz, P G, Pittman, A L, Hoover, B M, Lewis, D E

“…Recent studies with adults have suggested that amplification at 4 kHz and above fails to improve speech recognition and may even degrade performance when…”
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Subjective effects of peak clipping and compression limiting in normal and hearing-impaired children and adults by Stelmachowicz, P G, Lewis, D E, Hoover, B, Keefe, D H

“…Despite many advances in hearing-aid signal processing, compression limiting and peak clipping are still used. To date, perceptual studies have been conducted…”
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The Relation between Stimulus Context, Speech Audibility, and Perception for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children by Stelmachowicz, Patricia G, Hoover, Brenda M, Lewis, Dawna E, Kortekaas, Reinier W. L, Pittman, Andrea L

“…This study examined the influence of stimulus context and audibility on sentence recognition in 60 normal-hearing children, 24 hearing-impaired children, and…”
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A Comparison of Threshold-Based Fitting Strategies for Nonlinear Hearing Aids by Stelmachowicz, Patricia G, Dalzell, Sheila, Peterson, Dan, Kopun, Judy, Lewis, Dawna L, Hoover, Brenda E

“…OBJECTIVE:In recent years, wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) has been used with increasing success. To optimize the fit with this type of hearing aid…”
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Recognition Performance for Four Combinations of FM System and Hearing Aid Microphone Signals in Adverse Listening Conditions by Pittman, Andrea L, Lewis, Dawna E, Hoover, Brenda M, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…OBJECTIVEChildren with moderate to severe hearing loss routinely use personal frequency modulated (FM) systems in the classroom to improve the signal to noise…”
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Preferred hearing-aid frequency responses in simulated listening environments by Stelmachowicz, P G, Lewis, D E, Carney, E

“…This study was designed to determine if an adaptive strategy could be used to select frequency/gain characteristics that would be considered appropriate across…”
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Long-Term and Short-Term Characteristics of Speech: Implications for Hearing Aid Selection for Young Children by Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…Thirty children (ages 2-42 months) and 45 of their parents participated in this study of the effects of distance and postural position on the long-term and…”
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Measures of Hearing Aid Gain for Real Speech by Stelmachowicz, Patricia G, Kopun, Judy, Mace, Anne L, Lewis, Dawna E

“…OBJECTIVE:Non-speech stimuli typically are used to estimate the electroacoustic characteristics of a hearing aid. At present, there is no consensus as to what…”
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Longitudinal Study of FM System Use in Nonacademic Settings: Effects on Language Development by Moeller, Mary Pat, Donaghy, Kris Frisbie, Beauchaine, Kathryn Laudin, Lewis, Dawna E, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…OBJECTIVE:The overall objective of the present study was to assess the efficacy of FM system use in the home setting for a group of preschool children with…”
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Equivalent Ear Canal Volumes in Children Pre- and Post-Tympanostomy Tube Insertion by Shanks, Janet E

“…Evaluation of preoperative and postoperative equivalent ear canal volume measures on 334 children (ages 6 weeks to 6.7 years) with chronic otitis media with…”
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Relevant Factors in the Identification of Hearing Loss by Mace, Anne L, Wallace, Kathleen L, Whan, Mary Q, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…This study examined factors which may affect early identification of hearing loss. The medical records of 123 children with educationally significant hearing…”
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Coupling of FM Systems to Individuals with Unilateral Hearing Loss by Kopun, Judy G

“…This study examined the attenuation characteristics of 5 Frequency Modulation system sound delivery options for 25 adults and children (ages 5-13). Degree of…”
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Speech perception in low-pass filtered noise for normal and hearing-impaired listeners by Stelmachowicz, P G, Lewis, D E, Kelly, W J, Jesteadt, W

“…Two experiments were conducted concerning speech perception in noise. In Experiment 1, a comparison was made between adaptive and fixed-level procedures to…”
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Bandwidth Effects on Children's Perception of the Inflectional Morpheme /s/: Acoustical Measurements, Auditory Detection, and Clarity Rating by Kortekaas, Reinier W. L, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G

“…This study examined developmental effects in auditory perception of word-final /s/ in inflectional morpheme contexts as a function of high-frequency (HF)…”
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Hearing aid outcome measures for children by Stelmachowicz, P G

“…The provision of appropriate amplification for a young hearing-impaired child is critical as the aided speech signal will be used for the development of speech…”
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Probe-Tube Microphone Measures of Ear-Canal Sound Pressure Levels in Infants and Children by Feigin, Judith A, Kopun, Judy G, Stelmachowicz, Patricia G, Gorga, Michael P

“…Probe-tube microphone measures of ear-canal sound-pressure levels were obtained for 31 children under 5 years of age. These data were compared to similar…”
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Complex and pure-tone signals in the evaluation of hearing-aid characteristics by Stelmachowicz, P G, Lewis, D E, Seewald, R C, Hawkins, D B

“…In recent years, a number of commercially available systems have been developed to analyze the electroacoustic characteristics of hearing aids. In addition to…”
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