2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on auditory compensation support for hearing-impaired old people
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10680237
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | TUKUBA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY |
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Principal Investigator |
ONUMA Naoki TSUKUBA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH CENTER ON DEAF EDUCATION PROFESSOR, 教育方法開発センター(聴覚障害系), 教授 (20169022)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIRANE Takamitsu TSUKUBA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 建築工学科, 助教授 (90218793)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | anditory compensation and management / auditory training and learning / hearing-impairment / simulation of impaired hearing / directivity controlled loudspeaker system / assistive TV listening device / speech discrimination test / self-check lists of hearing problems |
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| Research Abstract |
1) We developed "self-check list of hearing-aid need" and "self-check list of dissatisfaction degree of TV sound listening", so that hearing-impaired old people can check how they feel inconvenience in their daily life.
2) By means of this questionnaires, we made nation-wide (the number of target : 600) investigation on the need for hearing aids and support service of auditory compensation.
3) As a result, 3.1% of over 60 year-old people now wear hearing aid, with distinction of sex, 4.1% of men and 2.1% of women. With generation distinction, we prove that rate of wearing hearing aid shows a tendency to go up from latter half 60's to early 70's. From the result of "self-check list to hard of hearing", 7.7% of over 60-year old people have problems of hearing, and over 10% early 70's old people have not yet received appropriate auditory compensation support in spite of candidates who have to wear or consult hearing aid.
4) We investigated about the way to select ancl prescribe hearing aid to fit each old hearing-impaired people, in-the-ear type hearing-aid, behind-the-ear type hearing-aid, body worn type hearing-aid, digital hearing-aid, FM hearing aid.
5) We developed a speech audiometric word lists consist of Japanese family names for hearing-impaired people who are difficult to adapt to nonsense mono-syllabic word discrimination test.
6) We developed a directivity controlled loudspeaker system, which can be placed on a TV set and amplifies sounds of 2000 to 6000 Hz for 15 dB in a horizontal direction angle of at least 30 degrees. The enhanced loudspeaker system improved the hearing of those persons who have slight difficulty hearing the 2000 to 6000 Hz range.
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Research Products
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