Visual Models for Understanding Own-Voice Complaints (Q2-2015)-Visual Models for Understanding Own-Voice Complaints (Q2-2015)

Visual Models for Understanding Own-Voice Complaints (Q2-2015)

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The article discusses the challenges faced by first-time hearing aid users in relation to the sound of their own voice. The article emphasizes the importance of addressing own-voice complaints in order to improve the satisfaction and success rate of hearing aid users. It presents a range of commonly-described own-voice complaints and provides visual models to help understand and classify these complaints. The article also highlights the different classifications of own-voice artifacts and provides solutions for remediation. It explains the significance of the Lombard effect and its opposite adaptive response. The article further explores the impact of non-acoustic occlusion and the involvement of the Vagus/Arnold’s Reflex in creating pressure on the pharynx and larynx. It also discusses the benefits of Receiver-in-the-Canal (RIC) and open-ear instrument configurations in alleviating own-voice concerns. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of aural rehabilitative counseling and individualized remediation for own-voice complaints. It encourages hearing aid professionals to have visual and explanatory tools to aid in counseling and making appropriate adjustments to alleviate unwanted own-voice artifacts.

Keywords

own-voice complaints

satisfaction

visual models

own-voice artifacts

remediation solutions

Lombard effect

adaptive response

non-acoustic occlusion

Receiver-in-the-Canal (RIC)

aural rehabilitative counseling