Åsa Skagerstrand
Position: Affiliated Researcher, Lecturer School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: asa.skagerstrand@oru.se
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About Åsa Skagerstrand
Åsa Skagerstrand is a PhD and an audiologist and a affiliated researcher at Örebro University. Åsa is an active researcher at the Audiological research centre at the University hospital in Örebro. Her research primarily focus on persons with profound hearing loss and on persons using cochlear implant. Her studies concerns listening effort, methods to reduce listening effort, and sound localization.
Åsa is also clinically active as an audiologist at the Audiological clinin within Region Örebro county. At the clinic she is active both with individual patients as well as within group rehabilitation.
Furthermore, Åsa is active within the area of National quality register. She is a part of the steering committee of the National quality register for ORL and is the head of the Quality register for profound heairng loss. She is also a member of the reference group for the National quality register for hearing rehabilitation.
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Granberg, S. & Skagerstrand, Å. (2022). Enhancing Person-Centered Audiologic Rehabilitation: Exploring the Use of an Interview Tool Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Core Sets for Hearing Loss. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 3.
- Löfvenberg, C. , Carlsson, P. , Barrenas, M. L. , Skagerstrand, Å. , Simic, D. , Carlsson, J. , Wigdén, J. & Westman, E. (2022). Prevalence of severe-to-Profound hearing loss in the adult Swedish population and comparison with cochlear implantation rate. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 142 (5), 410-414.
- Löfvenberg, C. , Turunen-Taheri, S. , Carlsson, P. & Skagerstrand, Å. (2022). Rehabilitation of Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss in Adults in Sweden. Audiology Research, 12 (4), 433-444.
- Skagerstrand, Å. , Köbler, S. & Stenfelt, S. (2017). Loudness and annoyance of disturbing sounds: perception by normal hearing subjects. International Journal of Audiology, 56 (10), 775-783.
- Turunen-Taheri, S. , Skagerstrand, Å. , Hellström, S. & Carlsson, P. (2017). Patients with severe-to-profound hearing impairment and simultaneous severe vision impairment: a quality-of-life study.. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 137 (3), 279-285.
- Carlsson, P. , Hjaldahl, J. , Magnuson, A. , Ternevall, E. , Edén, M. , Skagerstrand, Å. & Jönsson, R. (2014). Severe to profound hearing impairment: quality of life, psychosocial consequences and audiological rehabilitation. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37 (20), 1849-1856.
- Skagerstrand, Å. , Stenfelt, S. , Arlinger, S. & Wikström, J. (2014). Sounds perceived as annoying by hearing-aid users in their daily soundscape. International Journal of Audiology, 53 (4), 259-269.
- Eriksson, E. , Sullivan, K. , Zetterholm, E. , Czigler, P. , Green, J. , Skagerstrand, Å. & van Doorn, J. (2010). Detection of imitated voices: who are reliable earwitnesses?. The international journal of speech language and the law, 17 (1), 25-44.
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Granberg, S. , Möller, K. , Skagerstrand, Å. , Möller, C. & Danermark, B. (2014). The ICF Core Sets for hearing loss: researcher perspective, Part II: Linking outcome measures to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). International Journal of Audiology, 53 (2), 77-87.
Conference papers
- Skagerstrand, Å. & Unosson, R. (2023). Pre-Surgery Hearing Threshold as a Predictor for Cochlear Implant Outcome. Paper presented at AAA Heartech 2023, Seattle, April 19-22, 2023, USA.
- Karlsson, E. & Skagerstrand, Å. (2023). Vilka frågeformulär används inom svensk hörselvård och är det evidensbaserade?. Paper presented at Svensk audiologisk konferens,Göteborg, Sverige, 21-22 november, 2023.
- Skagerstrand, Å. (2019). Signal processing to ease of listening effort for persons with profound hearing loss. Paper presented at Aging & Speech Communication International Meeting 2019, Tampa, Florida, USA, 2019.
- Skagerstrand, Å. (2017). Perception in normal hearing subjects. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linköping, Sweden, 18-21 June, 2017.
- Rudner, M. , Dahlström, Ö. , Skagerstrand, Å. , Alvinzi, L. , Thunberg, P. , Sörqvist, P. , Rönnberg, J. , Lyxell, B. & et al. (2016). Does working memory training improve speech recognition in noise?. Paper presented at Neural Plasticity Workshop: Insights from Deafness and Language, London, UK, June 3-4, 2016.
- Skagerstrand, Å. , Lyxell, B. , Thunberg, P. , Sörqvist, P. , Lundin, M. , Johnsrude, I. , Rudner, M. , Rönnberg, J. & et al. (2015). Cognitive training and effects on speech-in noise performance in normal hearing and hearing impaired individuals. In: CHSCOM2015 Abstract book. Paper presented at Third international conference on cognitive hearing science for communication (CHSCOM2015), Linköping, Sweden, June 14-17, 2015. (pp. 127-127). Linköping University Electronic Press.
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Skagerstrand, Å. (2018). Perception of disturbing sounds: Investigations of people with hearing loss and normal hearing. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.
Manuscripts
- Skagerstrand, Å. , Köbler, S. & Stenfelt, S. Acoustic analysis of real-life sounds that affect hearing aid usage.
- Skagerstrand, Å. , Köbler, S. & Stenfelt, S. Loudness and annoyance of disturbing sounds : Perception by people with hearing loss.