An audiological profile of elderly Australians reporting speech affecting stroke

This study examined the audiological profile and hearing rehabilitation of 73 people who reported having had speech-affecting strokes. Participants were drawn from the Blue Mountains Hearing Study (BMHS), a population survey of age-related hearing loss in 2956 members of a representative elderly Aus...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Advances in speech-language pathology 2005, Vol.7 (4), p.211-219
Main Authors: Wigney, David, Golding, Maryanne, Newall, Philip, Mitchell, Paul, Hartley, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
audiometry
Blue Mountains Hearing Study
Elderly people
hearing aid
Hearing aids
Hearing impairment
hearing loss
Speech disorders
stroke
Strokes
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This study examined the audiological profile and hearing rehabilitation of 73 people who reported having had speech-affecting strokes. Participants were drawn from the Blue Mountains Hearing Study (BMHS), a population survey of age-related hearing loss in 2956 members of a representative elderly Australian community. While speech-affecting stroke did not seem to cause greater levels of hearing impairment or handicap than for other participants matched for age and gender, this may be due to a low prevalence of participants with severe effects on speech or language as a result of their stroke. Although 52% of participants self-reported a hearing loss, fewer than 23% had ever worn a hearing aid with only 15% wearing hearing aids for more than 1 hour per day. Pure tone audiometry identified 64% of participants with thresholds considered appropriate for hearing aid fitting when previously established criteria were applied. Questions concerning use of hearing aid/s and self reported hearing loss were not reliable in determining which participants with a speech affecting stroke met these audiometric criteria. The risks of uncorrected hearing loss compromising speech and language assessment and rehabilitation following stroke are discussed.
ISSN:1441-7049
DOI:10.1080/14417040500337054