In-Home Hearing-Aid Fitting, Evaluation and Training

家庭助听器验配、评估和培训

• 批准号: 8245509
• 负责人: HARRY NMI LEVITT
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: ADVANCED HEARING CONCEPTS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8245509
• 关键词: Acclimatization; Accounting; Acoustics; Address; Adult; Area; Assisted Living Facilities; Auditory; Binding; Characteristics; Clinic; Clinical; Computers; Coupled; Cueing for speech; Data; Elderly; Evaluation; Feasibility Studies; Healthcare; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Home environment; Human Characteristics; Individual; Internet; Life; Link; Location; Marketing; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; Noise; Paired Comparison; Performance; Personal Computers; Persons; Phase; Pilot Projects; Procedures; Process; Residual state; Self-Administered; Speech; Speech Acoustics; Staging; System; Techniques; Testing; Time; Training; Travel; Update; Video Recording; Work; Workplace; base; commercial application; computer monitor; computerized data processing; cost; cost effective; design; hearing impairment; improved; instrument; next generation; novel; programs; research study; skills; social; speech recognition; telehealth

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The field of telehealth is advancing rapidly and hearing instruments which can be adjusted remotely have recently been developed. Techniques for fitting and evaluating hearing aids in the home will be developed using a computer-based system linked to the internet. The system will include a method for self-administered auditory training with progress monitored remotely over the internet. Remote adaptive adjustment of the hearing-aid's electroacoustic characteristics will be used to maximize speech-recognition skills with the hearing aid. These adjustments will be made on an ongoing basis as the user adapts to acoustic amplification. The intended application of the system is for older people with hearing loss who are home-bound or who have difficulty reaching a hearing-aid dispensary because of distance or other constraints on travel. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: A method for fitting and evaluating a hearing aid in a person's home instead of a clinic will be developed and evaluated. The method will be of benefit to people who live in remote areas or who may live in the vicinity of a hearing clinic but have great difficulty in traveling to a clinic. The method of fitting will take into account the type of background noise commonly encountered in the home. A hearing aid that can be programmed remotely by a computer will be used. The computer will also be used to implement novel ways of assessing how well the hearing aid is working using an adaptation of an evaluation method using conversational speech known as speech tracking. The technique will also be used for auditory training in the home. The system will be evaluated in an experiment designed to determine the effects of auditory training on speech recognition as well as the effect of adaptation to acoustic amplification.

描述（由申请人提供）：远程医疗领域正在迅速发展，最近已经开发出可以远程调节的助听器。家庭验配和评估助听器的技术将使用连接到互联网的基于计算机的系统来开发。该系统将包括一种自我管理的听觉训练方法，并通过互联网远程监控进度。助听器电声特性的远程自适应调整将用于最大限度地提高助听器的语音识别能力。随着用户适应声学放大，这些调整将持续进行。该系统的预期应用对象是患有听力损失的老年人，他们因距离或其他旅行限制而难以到达助听器药房。 公共健康相关性：将开发和评估一种在家中而不是在诊所安装和评估助听器的方法。该方法对于居住在偏远地区或可能居住在听力诊所附近但前往诊所有很大困难的人来说将是有益的。装配方法将考虑家庭中常见的背景噪音类型。将使用可以通过计算机远程编程的助听器。该计算机还将用于实施新的方法来评估助听器的工作情况，使用一种改进的评估方法，该方法使用会话语音（称为语音跟踪）。该技术还将用于家庭听觉训练。该系统将在一项实验中进行评估，该实验旨在确定听觉训练对语音识别的影响以及对声学放大的适应效果。