Biomedical subjects

T G Giolas

Publications and source records attributed to T G Giolas.

13 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1990

"The measurement of hearing handicap" revisited: a 20-year perspective.

Interest in the development of self-assessment instruments to measure the handicapping effect of hearing difficulty has grown in the last 20 years. Numerous paper and pencil instruments are now available which vary in purpose, design, and psychometric underpinings. This paper discusses the status of the self-assessment approach in clinical audiology, presents a point of view regarding some of the factors contributing to this status and proposes some frontiers still open to self-assessment instruments in the assessment of hearing handicap.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

PubMed1987

Standardization of four videotaped tests of speechreading ranging in task difficulty.

Repeated measures are needed to assess speechreading ability of prospective cochlear implant candidates and to follow their progress over the course of treatment. To perform such measures, high quality color videotaped versions of four speechreading tests were constructed using a male and a female speaker. Materials were selected to provide gradations in task difficulty ranging from responses to questions with the topic known, to verbatim repetition, to abstraction of information from a spoken paragraph in order to answer questions. The tests were: (1) NAL/West Haven modification; (2) Iowa-Keaster, Forms A and B; (3) CID Everyday Sentences; and (4) Gold Rush Paragraph. The tapes were standardized by presentation to young adult normal subjects. Results indicated that a range of performance could be measured by using the present tests as a battery, although the anticipated ranking of tests was not obtained.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1985

Primary modality for speech perception in children with normal and impaired hearing.

The relationships between each of seven predictor variables and the relative degree to which 84 normal and hearing-impaired children used audition or vision in their perception of word stimuli were investigated. The children's relative use of audition or vision was assessed by the auditory-visual presentation of monosyllabic word stimuli in which the visual word stimuli were in conflict with those presented acoustically. Six of the seven predictor variables were significantly correlated with the performance scores obtained within the auditory-visual conflict condition. Only pure-tone average hearing level and auditory word identification performance, however, made unique contributions toward predicting the degree to which audition or vision was used in the perception of the word stimuli. We concluded that the relative use of audition or vision was almost completely related to their auditory capabilities as represented by the children's unaided threshold sensitivity and aided speech reception performance.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Hearing performance inventory.

The Hearing Performance Inventory (HPI) was developed to assess hearing performance in problem areas experienced in everyday listening. It consists of six sections: (1) Understanding Speech, (2) Intensity, (3) Response to Auditory Failure, (4) Social, (5) Personal, and (6) Occupational. A self-report response style is used. Sentences were written to describe a number of listening situations covering a variety of talker characteristics and communication processes. The development, current status, and clinical implications of the HPI are presented.

Attitude to Health↗

PubMed1975