Evidence for Relationship Between Speech Perception in Noise and Spectrotemporal Modulation Processing in Children With Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.
OBJECTIVES Children with mild bilateral hearing loss (CHL), defined as having thresholds between 20 and 40 dB HL, experience difficulties conversing in adverse acoustic conditions with background noise, despite having near-normal speech perception in quiet. Mixed evidence of hearing aid benefit among CHL has led to gui...