Examining Lived Experience by Adolescents with Hearing Loss and Their Typical Peers

Overview

In-lab research with well-controlled experimental tasks and conditions will likely miss important aspects of children's functional hearing in their everyday auditory environments. In this online study, we survey functional spatial hearing by adolescents and young adults 12-30 years old based on their everyday lived experiences. The online survey hosted on REDCap includes three published questionnaires: (1) the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale, (2) the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale and (3) the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life (HEAR-QL). Additional items are included on demographics, hearing history, music enjoyment and general daily experiences. In this poster, we will present survey findings from a group of typical-hearing adolescents and young adults and a group with hearing loss: 18 of which are hearing aid users and 11 of which are cochlear implant users. One participant uses a Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) and one uses no devices. Because of the need to process degraded auditory inputs in real-time, we hypothesize that adolescents and young adults with hearing loss (HL), even fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants, will experience and report more challenges than their typical hearing (TH) peers in various communication scenarios in real-world listening.

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