Sheetal Athalye

Mary Hare Hearing Centre Newbury UK

This study explored the experiences and views of audiologists working in hearing aid audiology clinics on bimodal hearing with a cochlear implant and hearing aid via an on-line questionnaire, and the views of adults with a unilateral cochlear implant by semi-structured interview. Forty audiologists responded and eight adults were interviewed.  All...

A survey was conducted to explore the views and experiences of cochlear implanted adults who use a hearing aid on the contra lateral side (bimodal hearing) and those who do not. 72 responses were received in total for the survey.  Responses were from a wide range of respondents across age (45-65 years), number of years after implantation (0.5-28 y...

This paper reports on a survey and interviews carried out with adults who have gone through the cochlear implantation pathway. It explores their experiences of current services, the assessment process for implantation, and the impact on their daily lives, including views and experiences on communication, independence and confidence. It also explore...

This study explored the views of 45 teenagers with aids and implants on their thoughts on wireless technology.  They were aged between 10 and 25 years with a mean of 14.9 years.  Nine respondents wore bilateral hearing aids, four wore unilateral hearing aids, nineteen wore bilateral cochlear implants and thirteen wore unilateral implants.  The m...

Objective: To explore the views of cochlear implant centre teams about the process of referral, assessment and rehabilitation for children with complex needs. Methods: An on-line survey of cochlear implant centres in the UK and in the Netherlands was carried out, with both quantitative and qualitative questions. The survey was designed and pilot...

Objective The objective of this survey was to explore the perceptions of implant users/carers and professionals across the UK about current and future cochlear implant service delivery and the challenges. Methods Data were collected via an online questionnaire consisting of totally 22 questions. The questionnaire contained both open- and close-ende...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate how well the virtual psychophysical measures of spatial hearing from the preliminary auditory profile predict self-reported spatial-hearing abilities. Design: Virtual spatial-hearings tests (conducted unaided, via headphones) and a questionnaire were administered in five centres in Germa...

Frequency modulation (FM) and remote microphone (RM) technology is a well recognized way to improve speech perception in adverse listening environments. FM systems are known to improve speech understanding in noisy situations (Lewis et al, 2004; Jerger et al, 1996) and its advantages in deaf children (King 2010), infants (Thibodeau, 2008) with coch...

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore, by interview, the experiences of adults who have undergone assessment for cochlear implantation and were considered unsuitable. Methods: Ten adult participants were interviewed. Interviews were transcribed and thematic content analysis was carried out to analyse them. Six main themes and 16...

Objective: This paper describes the composition and international multi-centre evaluation of a battery of tests termed the preliminary auditory profile. It includes measures of loudness perception, listening effort, speech perception, spectral and temporal resolution, spatial hearing, self-reported disability and handicap, and cognition. Clinical...

Studies concerning speech recognition in noise constitute a very broad spectrum of work including aspects like the cocktail party effect or observing performance of individuals in different types of speech-signal or noise as well as benefit and improvement with hearing aids. Another important area that has received much attention is investigating t...