Objective: Single-sided deaf (SSD) cochlear implant (CI) patients often have difficulty with spatial perception, which may be partly due to limited fusion of acoustic and electric hearing. In the present study, we investigated binaural fusion in SSD CI patients.
Methods: Eight adult SSD CI patients participated in the study.
Audiol Neurootol
October 2024
Introduction: Difficulty in understanding speech in noise is the most common complaint of people with hearing impairment. Thus, there is a need for tests of speech-in-noise ability in clinical settings, which have to be evaluated for each language. Here, a reference dataset is presented for a quick speech-in-noise test in the French language (Vocale Rapide dans le Bruit, VRB; Leclercq, Renard, & Vincent, 2018).
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