The Auditory Environment at Early Intervention Groups for Young Children With Hearing Loss: Signal to Noise Ratio, Background Noise, and Reverberation
The current findings show characteristics of the auditory environment of a setting that is specifically equipped and designed for groups of children with HL. Maintaining favorable SNRs seems to be the largest challenge to achieve within the constraints of an environment where young children gather, play, and learn. The results underscore the importance of staying attentive to keep spoken language accessible for children with HL in a group setting.
Authors
- Annerenée Meijer
- Deniz Başkent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-1451)
- Michel R. Benard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2146-1722)
- Evelien Dirks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4391-4462)
- Aart Woonink
Institutions
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Dutch Cancer Society (NL)
- Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands (NL)
- Emotional Brain (Netherlands) (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ear and Hearing
- Published
- 2025-01-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001627
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.43
Funders
- ZonMw
- Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen