Ankit Mahajan, Santosh Anand, Kriti, Vaibhav Awinashe, Raghu Devanna, Noura Alessa, Prashant Babaji
Evaluation of visual pedagogy teaching method for improving oral hygiene practice in children with Autism: An interventional study
Journal of education and health promotion
many individuals chronic subjective tinnitus report significant problems comprehending speech adverse listening situations large body studies provided evidence support notion deficits speechinnoise sin prevalent tinnitus population studies challenged findings elemental auditory perception usually minimally impaired addition deficits cognitive functions particularly executive functions also observed individuals tinnitus given previous findings theorize deficient central mechanisms may responsible reported speech comprehension problems tinnitus 25 participants suffering chronic subjective tinnitus 25 control participants 23 58 years age examined crosssectional design groups casematched age sex education hearing loss large audiometric battery used ranging threshold suprathreshold tasks spoken sentence level speech tasks additionally four cognitive tests performed primarily covering area executive functions tinnitometry tinnitusrelated questionnaires applied complement sample description allow secondary analyses hypothesized tinnitus participants score lower complex speech comprehension tasks executive function tasks compared healthy controls group differences elementary audiometric tasks expected expected individuals chronic subjective tinnitus scored lower sin gated speech task differences basic speech recognition threshold task elementary auditory perception tasks cognitive tests revealed clear deficits interference control stroop task flanker task tinnitus group differences inhibition working memory tasks results clearly delineate differences tinnitus individuals control participants two tests speech intelligibility adverse listening conditions poorer performance task interference control individuals tinnitus points towards impaired central executive control individuals tinnitus taken together partly exploratory study provides novel evidence view deficient central executive system individuals tinnitus probably account impaired speech comprehension