This book aimed at understanding the benefit of using body worn hearing aids by elderly hearing aid users in India; to develop possible strategies for rise in benefit and promote functional assessment of successful hearing aid use at regular intervals. The body worn hearing aids are outdated and not used in many nations of the world. However, affordability is a bigger factor of all, especially in developing countries, where it over takes social stigma of appearance, in compared to ear-level hearing aids. Along with technological advancements to be utilized in producing low cost devices, there...

This study aimed at finding out alternate effective way of programming cochlear implants in children. The findings may serve future studies in formulating new methods and strategies in successful fitting of cochlear implants.Authors have dealt with many other children with cochlear implant and chose data from few children who deemed fit for the study. However, in a large scale, if analyses of similar procedures are done, may give more extensive and precise understanding of the findings.

This book is aimed at sharing the findings, which can serve as a basis for many future studies. Working memory, being interest for many present researchers, is evident to be strongly related to communication. In elderly population, when physical functionalities deteriorates, mental processes also seem to be slowing down. To develop effective strategies for better communication skills in elderly, core mental functions has to be analyzed precisely.

This study aimed at exploring developmental changes in duration of vowels of Oriya language, which is one of the South Asian languages, spoken in Eastern India. The language has unique features of vowels which makes it marked. Vowel duration is one of the aspects among few others, which can signal to speech production disorders or failures at various levels of production. The study delivered precise and comprehensive analysis on factors like gender, pre-vocalic voicing, vowel type, and developmental changes in the duration of vowels of the language, which can serve as baseline data for future...