National Acoustic Laboratories

Listen to Your Heart and Mind: A Pilot Mixed‐Methods Study on Combined Screening for Raised Blood Pressure, Atrial Fibrillation, Cognitive Impairment and Hearing Loss in Older Adults

ABSTRACT Objective To determine the potential feasibility and acceptability of combined screening for raised blood pressure (BP), atrial fibrillation (AF) and cognitive impairment (CI) in older adults within a setting of hearing health assessment for detection of hearing loss. Me...

Evidence for Relationship Between Speech Perception in Noise and Spectrotemporal Modulation Processing in Children With Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

OBJECTIVES: Children with mild bilateral hearing loss (CHL), defined as having thresholds between 20 and 40 dB HL, experience difficulties conversing in adverse acoustic conditions with background noise, despite having near-normal speech perception in quiet. Mixed evidence of hea...

Five years of psychosocial research in audiology: trends, impact, and guidance

Hearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, a figure projected to approach 2.5 billion by 2050, with some 430 million already requiring rehabilitative care (World Health Organizati...

Unilateral Hearing Loss: Listening Ability, Social Participation and Adaptive Strategies to Challenges in the Real World

Background: Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) is associated with speech-in-noise difficulties, impaired spatial hearing, and reduced social participation, yet conventional audiological assessments may not capture these real-world consequences. This study characterised the multidimens...