Background: This study investigated the trajectories of decline in individual instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) with aging and the effect of hearing loss, vision loss, or dual sensory loss on these trajectories in community-living frail older persons. Method: This longitudinal population-based …

In deze presentatie voor logopedisten uit heel Nederland die met Cochleair Implantaat-gebruikers werken, wordt een pilot beschreven waarin drie CI-gebruikers piano hebben leren spelen. Er zijn drie redenen om deze doelgroep met muziek in aanraking te brengen: 1) muziek is een biologische eigenschap van …

Objective To assess if and how primary care midwives adhere to the guideline by addressing transition to motherhood at the first prenatal booking visit and to what extent there was a difference in addressing transition to motherhood between nulliparous and multiparous women. Design Cross-sectional observational …

Purpose: The purpose of this letter is to respond to Moncrieff's (2017) letter to the editor, "Response to de Wit et al., 2016, 'Characteristics of Auditory Processing Disorders: A Systematic Review,'" published in May 2017 by the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Conclusion: We believe …

Knowledge of child development influences parental expectations of, and interactions with, children. Studies have shown that maternal knowledge supports cognitive and social–emotional development of young children and can have long-lasting benefits. Level of developmental knowledge of parents and grandparents …

In het verleden is aangetoond dat muziektraining mogelijk een positief effect op het gehoor zou hebben, namelijk: het verstaan onder slechte akoestische omstandigheden (verjaardagsfeest, etc.) en het waarnemen van prosodie, de ‘melodie’ van de taal. Dit verschijnsel heeft te maken met neurale ‘plasticiteit’: …

Purpose Over the last 5 decades, many acoustic measures have been created to measure roughness and breathiness. The aim of this study is to present a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients (r) between auditory-perceptual judgment of roughness and breathiness and various acoustic measures in both sustained …

This chapter considers the use of haptics for learning fundamental rhythm skills, including skills that depend on multi-limb coordination. Different sensory modalities have different strengths and weaknesses for the development of skills related to rhythm. For example, vision has low temporal resolution …