Behind-the-Ear Type Hearing Aid to Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract

This study was designed to compare the usefulness of hearing aids between behind-the-ear type and box type in hearing impaired children, as regards to the hearing threshold with hearing aid and it using situation in every day life. Thirty-seven hearing impaired children were investigated in this study.
It was clarified that many children showed lower hearing threshold with behind-the-ear type hearing aid than those with box type hearing aid, and also that reducing behavioral difficulties, minimizing psychological annoyance and increasing motivation to use hearing were noticed in the cases of behind-the-ear type hearing aid.