Hearing Aid and Aural Rehabilitation (HAAR) Research Lab

Our research quest is to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of aural rehabilitation treatments and hearing aid technologies. Specifically, the research in this lab will seek to investigate the effects of hearing aid use and computerized auditory training on a variety of subjective and objective outcome measures, including measures of listening-related effort, auditory selective and sustained attention and audiovisual integration. We are also interested in using specific measures of speech-in-noise understanding abilities in predicting success with hearing aids in real-world situations, and in developing mathematical models of hearing disability.

In sum, our research will encompass three main activities:

• 1. To evaluate aural rehabilitation interventions and hearing aid technologies using behavioral and objective outcome measures.

  2. To predict individual success with hearing aids and rehabilitative treatments in real world situations.

  3. To advance the understanding of the effects of audiovisual integration on hearing aid use and benefit.