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‘Unmasking’ Benefits for Hearing Aid Users in Challenging Listening Environments

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health and government officials are encouraging or even mandating community-wide face mask wearing to reduce potential pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic transmission of the virus to others. This practice, in combination with social distancing (ie, keeping >6 feet apart), has helped decrease spread of the virus, but it has also provided a barrier to clear, empathetic communication, particularly for those with hearing loss.

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Back to Basics: Going Beyond the Phoneme…to the Word and Beyond!

Marshall Chasin, AuD, looks at how the Speech Intelligibility Index, or SII, can provide information on the various speech sounds or phonemes, but does not provide information on word-level and sentence-level cues that may be very important as well, particularly for bilingual patients.

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