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S Afr J Commun Disord
August 2025
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.
Background: Small infants face more developmental risks than their full-term peers, necessitating early intervention and long-term monitoring.
Objectives: This study examined the longitudinal developmental and hearing outcomes of small infants attending a high-risk clinic in a South African low-income community setting.
Method: A short-term longitudinal within-subject descriptive study design was employed, where 28 participants underwent hearing and developmental screenings and assessments at two follow-up appointments (T1 and T2), at 6- and 12-month corrected age.
Trends Hear
September 2025
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Understanding speech in noise is a common challenge for older adults, often requiring increased listening effort that can deplete cognitive resources and impair higher-order functions. Hearing aids are the gold standard intervention for hearing loss, but cost and accessibility barriers have driven interest in alternatives such as Personal Sound Amplification Products (PSAPs). While PSAPs are not medical devices, they may help reduce listening effort in certain contexts, though supporting evidence remains limited.
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September 2025
Graduation Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, University of Sao Paulo, Bauru, Brazil.
ObjectivesTo describe a pharyngeal bulb reduction program (PBRP) aimed at decreasing the size of the velopharyngeal gap in individuals with repaired cleft palate presenting hypodynamic velopharynx, and to evaluate the effect of the PBRP on pharyngeal bulb dimensions.MethodsThirteen patients (6 females and 7 males; mean age = 28 years) with repaired cleft palate and hypodynamic velopharynx, who demonstrated normal speech using a pharyngeal bulb, participated in the study. The PBRP lasted two weeks and consisted of sequential pharyngeal bulb reductions during nasoendoscopy combined with intensive speech therapy.
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September 2025
Aerospace Medicine and Vestibular Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, United States.
Introduction: In military settings, ear-worn communication systems and hearing protection have equal importance, but opposite purposes. It is crucial to provide clear communication signal free of noise that may also be hazardous to hearing. Electrical auditory stimulation is a mode of transmitting high fidelity speech information with an amplitude modulated electromagnetic signal that is sent transcutaneously through electrodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVestn Otorinolaringol
September 2025
Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow, Russia.
Hearing plays a key role not only in the perception of information from the environment and the formation of speech, but also in social construction, communication and the maintenance of important cognitive functions. At the same time, persistent hearing loss can lead to cognitive disorders and dementia, as well as central auditory dysfunction. Subjective methods of hearing research were used - pure tone threshold audiometry (PTA), speech audiometry in silence and noise; and objective diagnostics - recording of long-latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP).
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