A5040945680- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Noise Effects and Management
- Language Development and Disorders
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Ear Surgery and Otitis Media
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Infant Health and Development
- Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
2010-2025
University of Pittsburgh
2015-2025
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
2013-2023
Google (United States)
2000-2023
Johns Hopkins University
2016
University of Baltimore
2016
Johns Hopkins Medicine
2016
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
2015
Audiology (United States)
2009-2010
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
2005
Age-related peripheral hearing impairment (HI) is prevalent, treatable, and may be a risk factor for dementia in older adults. In prospective analysis, we quantified the association of HI with incident domain-specific cognitive decline memory, perceptual speed, processing speed. Data were from Health, Aging Body Composition (Health ABC) study, biracial cohort well-functioning adults aged 70–79 years. Dementia was defined using prespecified algorithm incorporating medication use, hospital...
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for hearing loss in a sample 2,052 older adults (aged 73–84; 46.9% male, 37.3% black) enrolled Health, Aging Body Composition (Health ABC) Study. Design: Cross‐sectional analysis longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Memphis, Tennessee, areas. Participants: Random Medicare beneficiary subjects Health ABC program from 1997 to 1998. They included individuals: 660 white men (32.2%), 631 women (30.8%), 310 black...
We aimed to determine whether hearing impairment (HI) in older adults is associated with the development of frailty and falls.
Identifying factors associated with functional declines in older adults is important given the aging of population. We investigated if hearing impairment independently objectively measured physical functioning a community-based sample adults. Prospective observational study 2,190 individuals from Health, Aging, and Body Composition study. Participants were followed annually for up to 11 visits. Hearing was pure-tone audiometry. Physical gait speed Short Performance Battery (SPPB). Incident...
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors age-associated hearing loss in a cohort of older black white adults. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: The Health, Aging, Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, community-based study adults from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Memphis, Tennessee. PARTICIPANTS: Two thousand forty-nine well-functioning (mean age 77.5; 37% black). MEASUREMENTS: Pure-tone audiometry measurement history clinical CVD...
Hearing impairment (HI) is highly prevalent in older adults and associated with social isolation, depression, risk of dementia. Whether HI broader downstream outcomes unclear. We undertook this study to determine whether audiometric mortality adults.Prospective observational data from 1,958 ≥70 years age the Health, Aging, Body Composition Study were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression. Participants followed for 8 after examination. Mortality was adjudicated by obtaining death...
Hearing loss and dementia are both prevalent in late adulthood. The most common test used to determine cognitive status adulthood, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), is presented face face, usually context of physician's office presence background noise. Despite problems hearing life, there an absence evidence linking hearing-related deficits performance on MMSE diagnoses.This study examined effect decreased audibility MMSE.A between-subjects design was implemented. Participants were...
The objective of the study is was investigate association between hearing impairment and anxiety.We conducted a cross-sectional analysis 1,732 community-based adults aged 76 to 85 years who participated in Health Aging Body Composition (ABC) study. Logistic regression models were adjusted for demographic cardiovascular risk factors. Hearing defined by speech-frequency pure tone average. Anxiety as reporting two symptoms at least "a little" or one symptom "quite bit" on three-item Hopkins...
Abstract Theoretical and philosophical issues related to the need for criteria of a formal definition aphasia are discussed. Following review several definitions contrast two, is advanced that meets specific requirements scientific definition: group membership assumed mechanisms these criteria. The discussed presented. It argued this (or well justified alternative) can serve as first approximation general theory aphasia. also claimed it inform research consumer about important but unstated...
To determine the association between hearing impairment (HI) and risk duration of hospitalization in community-dwelling older adults United States.Prospective observational study.Health, Aging Body Composition Study.Well-functioning white black Medicare beneficiaries aged 70 to 79 at study enrollment 1997-98 were followed for a median 12 years.Incidence, annual rate, primary outcomes. Hearing was defined as pure-tone average (PTA) thresholds decibels re: level (dB HL) octave frequencies from...
Background: Working memory (WM) has gained recent attention as a cognitive construct that may account for language comprehension deficits in persons with aphasia (PWA) (Caspari, Parkinson, LaPointe, & Katz, 1998 Caspari, I., S. R., L. and R. C. 1998. aphasia.. Brain Cognition, 37: 205–223. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Martin, Kohen, Kalinyak‐Fliszar, 2008 N., F. M. 2008. A diagnostic battery to assess short‐term Poster presentation at Clinical Aphasiology...
Abstract Background: The Story Retell Procedure (SRP) (Doyle et al., Citation1998) is a well‐described method for eliciting connected language samples in persons with aphasia (PWA). However, the stimuli and task demands of SRP are fundamentally different from commonly employed picture description, narrative, procedural description tasks reported literature. As such, extent to which measures linguistic performance derived may be associated those obtained unknown. This research was supported...
Purpose: The present study assessed the test–retest reliability of American Sign Language (ASL) version Computerized Revised Token Test (CRTT-ASL) and compared differences similarities between ASL English reading by Deaf hearing users ASL. Method: Creation CRTT-ASL involved filming, editing, validating CRTT instructions, sentence commands, scoring. proficient (DP), nonproficient (HNP), sign language completed self-paced, word-by-word (CRTT-Reading-Word Fade [CRTT-R-wf]). Both tests were...
To better understand the potential impact of hearing impairment (HI) and aid use on emotional vitality mental health in older adults. We investigated cross-sectional association HI with 1,903 adults aged 76–85 years Health ABC study adjusted for demographic cardiovascular risk factors. Hearing was defined by speech frequency pure tone average (no < 25 dB, mild 25–40 moderate or greater > 40 dB). Emotional as having a high sense personal mastery, happiness, low depressive symptomatology,...
This study assessed the reliability and validity of intermodality associations differences in persons with aphasia (PWA) healthy controls (HC) on a computerized listening 3 reading versions Revised Token Test (RTT; McNeil & Prescott, 1978).Thirty PWA 30 HC completed test versions, including complete replication. Reading varied according to stimulus presentation method: (a) full-sentence presentation, (b) self-paced word-by-word construction, (c) each word removed onset next word....
Purpose This study examined the feasibility of screening hearing loss in rural and urban schools Egypt, investigated prevalence causes impairment (HI) Egyptian primary-school students. Method A total 555 children (6–12 years age) from a an school Shebin El-Kom District Egypt were screened for HI at their schools. 2-stage procedure was used, positive cases referred diagnostic assessment regional medical facility. Risk factors through parent questionnaire environmental consisting noise,...
Purpose The goal of this study was to determine the impact age, gender, and race on prevalence severity hearing loss in elder adults, aged 72–96 years, after accounting for income, education, smoking, clinical subclinical cardiovascular disease. Methods Air-conduction thresholds standard extended high-frequency pure-tones were obtained from a cohort 548 (out 717) elderly adults (ages years) who recruited during Year 11 visit (1999–2000) Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) at Pittsburgh,...
Four rhesus monkeys were trained to respond on one key when a one‐second noise burst was presented through speaker and second the speaker. The acquisition of stimulus control studied under three conditions, in each which relationship between sound source response‐key positions varied: an adjacent condition response this reinforced; reversed‐adjacent responding other nonadjacent nearer reinforced. Under developed within or two sessions. reversed 10 sessions required for development control....
Abstract Background Depressive symptoms and hearing loss (HL) are independently associated with increased risk of incident disability; whether the is additive unclear. Methods Cox Proportional Hazards models were used to assess joint associations HL (normal, mild, moderate/severe) late-life depressive (defined by a score ≥8 on 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale) onset mobility disability (a lot difficulty or inability walk ¼ mile and/or climb 10 steps) any in...
Listeners who fail to optimize their allocation of effort during auditory comprehension tasks can experience from compromised performance, fatigue and stress, which might result in reduced engagement social communication activities. Strategically allocating based on costs perceived benefits are commonly observed the research effortful physical visual behaviors. Whether people manage a similar manner audition remains unclear. As listening performance with normal hearing often serves as goal...