Clinical audiological research
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The research group conducts interdisciplinary audiological research using a bio-psychosocial perspective. The research is clinical, patient oriented within as varying research areas as genetics, diagnostics, cognition, treatment, CI, habilitation and rehabilitation among others. The research is carried out at the Audiological Research Centre, University Hospital in Örebro in close collaboration with the Department of Audiology, Örebro University Hospital. The research group also collaborates with several international genetic laboratories and universities. The researchers have different professional backgrounds as physicians, nurses, audiologists, psychologists, sociologists, engineers and others. The research is conducted with external grants where a 10 year old VR-grant Linneaus-HEAD (Hearing And Deafness) within the Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR) is a foundation.
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- Adults with Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). Studies on auditive signal processing and cognition
- Alteration in HEaring after Accidental Dural Puncture in parturient, AHEAD study.
- Analysis and reporting of preschool staffs? hearing data and perceptions of the sound environment
- Assistive hearing devices
- Characteristic of Interaction within Video Relay Interpreting
- Cognition and hearing loss
- Compensation for added costs for people with disabilities
- Development of cognitive ability and reading skills in Deaf children with cochlear implants
- Disturbing noise in the everyday environments of hearing aid users
- Hearing loss and sleep disorders
- Hearing technological assistive devices and its use in schools
- HUSK Education: academic programmes for young people with hearing impairments
- ICF Core Sets for Hearing Loss
- Otosclerosis in a life perspective, clinical and genetic studies
- Prevalence of hearing loss and tinnitus in Swedish children, age 7-9
- Problems faced by the hearing impaired persons at their work place
- Radiological inner ear findings in patients with progressive hearing loss after skull injury
- Studies in music exposition, hearing loss, and tinnitus in children and adolescents
- Study on listening problems in children
- Study on sound localisation capacity in persons with profound deafness and cochlear implantation
