Hearing Loss, Aging, and Speech Perception in.
While elderly patients may develop voice disorders from those etiological factors that affect all age groups, such as upper respiratory tract infections, they are also susceptible to changes that are related to getting or being old. Certain voice changes are a normal part of the aging process and should not be considered disordered, but it is important for the otolaryngologist and speech.
Wearable Sensors to Understand Speech, Swallowing, and Social Interaction Behaviors in Typical Aging and Dementia. Using a novel mechanoacoustic sensor developed at Northwestern University, studies explore the relationships between mobility, social interaction, speech and swallowing behaviors in real-world contexts in typical aging and dementia.
The physiological age-related hearing loss is defined as presbycusis and it is characterized by reduced hearing sensitivity and problems in understanding spoken language especially in a noisy environment. In elderly the reduced speech recognition is generally caused by a reduction of the cochlear cells in the organ of Corti and degeneration of the central auditory pathways.
With our society’s aging demographics, age-related hearing loss is set to become an increasing problem that can cause social isolation, depression and perhaps even an acceleration of dementia. Furthermore, with so many people now listening to personal listening devices for extended periods at high volume, the problem is likely to increase, with earlier onset becoming more common.
I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects speech understanding. The two talks we had this morning did a great job of setting the table and talking about attention and how neurological, electrophysiological changes affect attending to speech or to complex sounds and the next two talks — my talk and Lori.
Jin, Liu, and Sladen reported on the 1988 Working Group on Speech Understanding and Aging Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics (CHABA), which stated three likely factors for age-related listening problems: (1) changes in the peripheral auditory system, (2) changes in central auditory processing, and (3) changes in cognitive performance.
Speech impairment, also called communication disorder, or voice disorder, is a condition in which you have trouble forming sounds. Speech impairments vary, from occasionally not being able to.