Trial of Affordable Bone Conduction Headphones to Support a Deaf Child's Education in Malawi.
Modesta BeneMwanaisha PhiriIsobel Fitzgerald OconnorCatherine de CatesThomas HamptonTamsin Mary Holland BrownPublished in: Journal of patient experience (2023)
A 13-year-old child with hearing loss secondary to chronic serous otitis media and bilateral tympanic perforations had been unable to hear the teacher at school and unable to pass end-of-year exams. In 2020, she trialed a bone conduction headset paired by Bluetooth to a remote microphone and used this to support her hearing at school, socializing with friends and in the family home. Due to the COVID (COronaVIrus Disease) pandemic and a cholera epidemic, she was followed up 3 years later. The child (now 16 years old) reported using the headset every day for 3 years. Able to hear the teacher, she reported having passed school exams every year since using the device, and now had ambitions to study medicine.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
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- hearing loss
- sars cov
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- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- soft tissue
- clinical trial
- study protocol
- high grade
- bone loss
- high school
- quality improvement
- postmenopausal women
- bone regeneration
- case report
- body composition
- phase ii
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