MeasurIng and Restoring Auditory Awareness for Cochlear Implant Listeners in noisE

MeasurIng and Restoring Auditory Awareness for Cochlear Implant Listeners in noisE

The goal of this interventional study is to describe how people with cochlear implants perceive the perceive speech in noise and their sound environment on adults who are native French speakers with typical hearing or with cochlear implant(s).

The measures and strategies developed in this project could benefit all current and future cochlear implant wearers by improving their perception of the sound environment and their quality of life on a daily basis.

Researchers will compare normal hearing participant and participants with cochlear implant to describe the speech in noise and their perception of the sound environment.

Participants will perform audiological tests to assess their perception of the sound environment, with and without speech enhancement.

Inclusion Criteria:

For all participants:

• 18 years of age or over,
• Native French speaker,
• Having given their consent to take part in the research.

For cochlear implant patients:

• Adult implanted and declaring that they have been using the implant for at least 18 months,
• Normal speech audiometry in silence

For controls reporting normal hearing:

• Normal tonal audiometry (defined as a mean tonal loss not exceeding 30 decibel (dB) HL)
• Normal speech audiometry in noise (SNR between -8 dB and -4dB inclusive)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Be under guardianship or curatorship,
• deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, or subject to legal protection,
• Non- native French speaker.