Auditory Training Program for Individuals With Post-lingual Hearing Impairment: A Scoping Review
International Journal of Allied Health Sciences
Marhaban, J. A., Rahmat, S., et al. (2023).
International Journal of Allied Health Sciences, 7(5), 401-433.
This systematic review investigates the effects of any auditory training programs available in English or Malay on listening skills, speech intelligibility, cognition, and communication in adults, 18 years and older, with any degree of hearing loss who use a hearing device (e.g., cochlear implants, hearing aids, assistive listening devices).
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2007 to 2017
Randomized controlled trials, non-randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, repeated measures studies (pre- and post-training comparisons), case studies, reliability tests, and validity tests.
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67% of studies (16/24) investigating the efficacy of auditory training programs reported statistically significant improvements for adults with hearing loss who use hearing devices, while seven studies found no difference between pre- and post-training. Of the ten papers that investigated long-term retention effects, eight showed retention and two showed no retention effect. The majority (91%) of the included studies used computer-based auditory training programs. Across studies, a session duration of 30 to 60 minutes for at least 10 sessions across 4 to 12 weeks demonstrated the ideal service delivery for auditory training. The authors noted that most of the studies did not state what type of approach their program used, that the variety of baseline skills and level of hearing loss of participants may have biased the reported effectiveness, and that the variety of measurement tools used across studies demonstrate varying levels of sensitivity.
