{"doi":"10.61782/fa.2023.0406","title":"Factors that Underlie Listening Effort for Children who are Hard of Hearing","abstract":"Many children with mild to severe hearing loss are identified and receive early intervention at very young ages.Even with this early intervention, however, children who are hard of hearing (CHH) experience challenges due to reduced auditory access.These challenges are further compounded because CHH have increased difficulty perceiving speech in adverse acoustic conditions and most listening conditions are characterized by poor acoustics.When listening in adverse conditions, CHH must exert additional cognitive resources to perceive an incoming message.Consequently, they have fewer cognitive resources available to perform additional tasks and must expend increased listening effort.The current paper will describe the factors that underlie increased listening effort in school-age children.Fifty-nine CHH were administered behavioral and subjective measures of listening effort.Stimuli were presented in different levels of background noise.As aided audibility levels increased, perceptions of listening effort decreased within CHH who used hearing aids.These findings suggest that amplification appears to ameliorate listening effort in children.","journal":null,"year":2024,"id":493427,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9557,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1340234,"name":"J. J. Oleson","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":311078,"name":"Elizabeth Walker","orcid":"0000-0002-9717-8424","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":16,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:09:03.883685Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}