Research Interests:
- Hearing Aids
- Aural Rehabilitation
- Clinical Audiology
- Visual Tracking
Expertise: Aural rehabilitation and investigating the efficacy of auditory training programs, hearing aid research, and clinical audiology
Specifically, the research in this lab will seek to investigate the effects of hearing aid use and computerized auditory training on a variety of subjective and objective outcome measures, including measures of listening-related effort, auditory selective and sustained attention and audiovisual integration. We are also interested in using specific measures of speech-in-noise understanding abilities in predicting success with hearing aids in real-world situations, and in developing mathematical models of hearing disability.
In sum, our research will encompass three main activities:
- To evaluate aural rehabilitation interventions and hearing aid technologies using behavioral and objective outcome measures.
- To predict individual success with hearing aids and rehabilitative treatments in real world situations.
- To advance the understanding of the effects of audiovisual integration on hearing aid use and benefit.
Current Research:
- Masking Level Difference with Digits (MLDD) in Children
- Effects of Hearing Aid Use and Auditory Training on Listening Effort and Fatigue, and Auditory Selective Attention in New and Experienced Hearing Aid Users
Other Research Projects:
- We are also using eye-tracking methods to evaluate patient's acclimatization to frequency lowering iterations.
- In our current and future research we will use the Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) method to evaluate acclimatization effects in first-time and experienced hearing aid wearers.
- We are also studying associations between hearing aid uptake and the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) Models.
