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HEARLab hardware and aided cortical assessment audiometer

Program: 
C1
Project area: 
C1.3: Novel Clinical Assessment Tools
Project-ID: 
C1.3.1
Project Status: 
Ongoing

Background

The HEARLab Hardware System has been developed by the National Acoustics Laboratory in Sydney and transferred to commercial partner, Frye Electronics, for manufacture.

The Aided Cortical Assessment (ACA) module that presents speech stimuli in the sound-field as part of HEARLab has also been complete, Frye Electronics has already supplied a number of HEARLab ACA devices to universities and practices for use and further evaluation.

Detail

This project is focused on the successful commercialisation of HEARlab and its various modules. In order to secure FDA regulatory approval for HEARLab, to enable marketing of the device in the USA, additional data is required to confirm the performance of HEARLab ACA’s new technology and its application to a new subject population.

The study comprises two parts:

1. verification of the performance of the software for obtaining cortical threshold estimates with a group of adult hearing impaired subjects

2. verification of the efficacy of the software as an aid to checking and adjusting hearing aid fittings with a number of hearing impaired infants.

Project leadership

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Mr Teck Loi
 

Project Team

Isabella Tan, Barry Clinch, Lyndal Carter, Scott Brewer, Harvey Dillon

 

Organisations involved

Australian Hearing Services

Publications from this Project

Title Authors Year of Publicationsort icon
Evaluating Speech Detection in Aided Infants & Estimating Pure Tone Thresholds in Unresponsive Adults: Auditory-evoked Cortical Potentials Dillon, H, VanDun B, Carter L, Gardner-Berry K 2010
Evoked cortical assessment of aided children Dillon, H 2009
Evaluating aided infants with evoked cortical potentials Dillon, H, Golding M, Carter L, Purdy SC, Seymour J 2008
Noise reduction methods in electrophysiological recordings Dillon, H 2008
Active Occlusion Reduction Dillon, H 2007