Northwestern University
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if hearing aid settings that are customized to individual listening strategies result in better speech understanding than non-customized hearing aid settings. The main question it aims to answer is: Do customized hearing aid settings result in better speech understanding? Researchers will compare hearing aid settings that match individual listening strategy to a general setting. Participants will: Wear hearing aids for a 2-hour visit to our laboratory. Listen to some sentences in noise and repeat the sentences they hear, with two different hearing aid settings Listen to some sentences in noise and rate how understandable they think those sentences are, with two different hearing aid settings
Participants will complete standard clinical hearing evaluations and a listening profile test to evaluate their individual listening strategy. Hearing aids will then be programmed either based on their clinical hearing evaluations alone using typical hearing aid settings or based on their hearing test with settings further adjusted to account for their individual listening strategies.
Inclusion Criteria: * Sensorineural hearing loss Exclusion Criteria: * Montreal Cognitive Assessment \< 23 points
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss.
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.
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