TY - JOUR
AU - Hull, Raymond H.
AB - Environmental design enhances hearing rehabilitation By Raymond H. Hull, PhD Many public and private listening environments wreak These rooms are often square or rectangular in havoc on adults with aging peripheral and central audi- shape with hard floors (tile, concrete, marble, or tory systems. Adults, who may have noted only some wood), sheetrock, concrete block, or brick walls, and difficulty in specific degraded listening environments they frequently have tile ceilings that are sound-reflec- at an earlier age, may experience extremely frustrating tive. They usually have white boards or blackboards, difficulty in these same situations as they age. uncovered windows, glass-covered pictures, and other Older adults may blame this difficulty on the sound-reflective surfaces. Most church sanctuaries have speaker, when in fact the culprits may be the reverber- hard wooden pews, vaulted ceilings, stained glass win- ant characteristics of the meeting room, the anechoic dows, hard reflective walls, and hard floors, all sound- environment of their home, or the combined effects reflective or reverberant surfaces. of auditory and visual distractions in a multipurpose These reflective surfaces cause speech and other room within a health care facility. Without recognizing sounds to bounce from one surface to another, setting this possibility, older 
TI - Environmental design enhances hearing rehabilitation
JO - The Hearing Journal
DO - 10.1097/01.HJ.0000403507.95712.4a
DA - 2011-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/environmental-design-enhances-hearing-rehabilitation-HDd2k90ACw
SP - 18
VL - 64
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -