Richard Dowell

Speech Perception and Language Outcomes for Infants Receiving Cochlear Implants Before or After 9 Months of Age: Use of Category-Based Aggregation of Data in an Unselected Pediatric Cohort.

Shani Dettman, Dawn Choo, Agnes Au, Amy Luu, Richard Dowell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Purpose This retrospective study aimed to amass large data sets to enable statistical comparisons of communication outcomes for in..

Systemic methylprednisolone for hearing preservation during cochlear implant surgery: A double blinded placebo-controlled trial.

Stephen J O'Leary, June Choi, Karina Brady, Sheila Matthews, Katie Boncza Ozdowska, Matthew Payne, Tim McLean, Alex Rousset, Jonathon Lo, Nathan Creber, Sylvia Tari, Richard Dowell, Robert Briggs

Journal article  |  2021  |  Hearing Research

AIM: To assess whether a single, peri-operative, high dose of methylprednisolone can improve the preservation of residual acoustic..

Hearing Aid Uptake, Benefit, and Use: The Impact of Hearing, Cognition, and Personal Factors.

Grace Nixon, Julia Sarant, Dani Tomlin, Richard Dowell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of hearing, cognition, and personal factors on hearing aid (HA) uptak..

Third-party disability in ongoing vestibular disorders through the lens of the ICF framework

Lauren Story, Caitlin Barr, Richard Dowell, Jessica Vitkovic

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Audiology

OBJECTIVE: To identify presence and nature of Third-Party Disability experienced by Significant Others (SOs) of people with ongoin..

Hearing aid use and cognition in older adults: Can we delay decline or even improve cognitive function?

Julia Sarant, David Harris, Peter Busby, Paul T Maruff, Adrian Schembri, Jocelyn Phillips, Grace Nixon, Ulrike Lemke, Stefan Launer, Dani Tomlin, Richard Dowell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Alzheimer's & Dementia

Understanding typical support practice for students who are deaf or hard of hearing: Perspectives from teachers of the deaf in Australia

Shani Dettman, Yvonne Chia, Surabhi Budhiraja, Lorraine Graham, Julia Sarant, Caitlin Barr, Richard Dowell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Deafness and Education International

While there is a growing level of demand for accountability and documentation of services provided to students who are Deaf or Har..

Speech Perception Changes in the Acoustically Aided, Nonimplanted Ear after Cochlear Implantation: A Multicenter Study

Mario A Svirsky, Arlene C Neuman, Jonathan D Neukam, Annette Lavender, Margaret K Miller, Ksenia A Aaron, Piotr H Skarzynski, Katarzyna B Cywka, Henryk Skarzynski, Eric Truy, Fabien Seldran, Ruben Hermann, Paul Govaerts, Geert De Ceulaer, Francois Bergeron, Matthieu Hotton, Michelle Moran, Richard C Dowell, Maria Valeria Schmidt Goffi-Gomez, Ana Tereza de Matos Magalhaes, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Clinical Medicine

In recent years there has been an increasing percentage of cochlear implant (CI) users who have usable residual hearing in the con..

Cochlear implantation outcomes in adults: A scoping review

Isabelle Boisvert, Mariana Reis, Agnes Au, Robert Cowan, Richard C Dowell

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to provide a descriptive analysis of recent evidence available in the literature in relation to the e..

The Adaptation to Mandarin-Accented English by Older, Hearing-Impaired Listeners Following Brief Exposure to the Accent

Jutta A Hau, Colleen M Holt, Sue Finch, Richard C Dowell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Purpose The language processing of Mandarin-accented English (MAE) by older hearing-impaired (OHI), older normally hearing (NH), a..

The development and validation of the Short Language Measure (SLaM): A brief measure of general language ability for children in their first year at school

Jessica Matov, Fiona Mensah, Fallon Cook, Sheena Reilly, Richard Dowell

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

BACKGROUND: There is no sufficiently accurate short-language measure that could be used by speech-language pathologists, teachers ..