In this article, we review relational factors in early childhood believed to contribute in unique
ways to pragmatic skill development in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) infants and toddlers …

Cubick and Dau [(2016). Acta Acust. Acust. 102, 547–557] showed that speech reception
thresholds (SRTs) in noise, obtained with normal-hearing listeners, were significantly higher …

As well as background noise and reverberation, speaker-to-listener relative location affects
the binaural speech transmission index (BSTI) considerably, especially in the near field. To …

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced lifestyle changes that may negatively
impact communication, including the pervasive use of face masks and videoconferencing …

The extent to which informational masking (IM) is involved in real-world listening is not well
understood. In the literature, IM effects of more than 8 dB are reported, but these …

Objectives: Current hearing aids have a limited bandwidth, which limits the intelligibility and
quality of their output, and inhibits their uptake. Recent advances in signal processing, as …

Infant–parent interaction forms the foundation for language learning. For the majority of deaf
infants, hearing loss can impact access to, and the quality of communicative interactions …