Wafaa El Kholy
Dr. Wafaa Abdel-Hay Mohamed El-Kholy is Professor Emeritus of Audio-vestibular Medicine, Oto-rhino-laryngology Dept., Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. She shared in the development of Arabic speech perception tests for adults and children and the Arabic computer-based program for remediation of children with auditory processing disorders. She is co-founder of rehabilitation center for pre-school hearing aid and cochlear implant users. She is board member of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) – Audiology Committee. She also holds membership in the International Association of Physicians in Audiology (IAPA) and the Egyptian Audio-Vestibular Medicine Association (EAVMA). She is reviewer in the Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose and Throat and Allied Sciences (EJENTAS) and the Egyptian Journal of Oto-rhino-laryngology (EJO). Her research focuses on speech-evoked potentials in children using cochlear implants, those with central auditory processing disorders and/or language disorders. Her most recent research focuses on implementation of discrimination cortical evoked potentials, specifically the Acoustic Change Complex, in cochlear implant users and in children with auditory processing disorders. Moreover, she recently shared in the development of Arabic low-verbal material for central auditory abilities and low-verbal sentences-in-noise tests for young hearing-impaired children. Her current research focuses on the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in predicting performance in young cochlear implant children and evaluation of spatial listening in normal children, patients with SSD, and children with microtia.
Sessions
Background & Aim
Spatial listening is the ability to distinguish a target speech stream from simultaneous distracting noise using auditory spatial awareness. It relies on several factors, including the listener’s hearing thresholds, auditory experience, familiarity with the surrounding environment, motivation, and attention.
Listening in noisy environments is especially challenging for younger children in school settings, where early educational skills are often taught amidst background noise. Spatial processing disorder (SPD) is a significant issue observed in a notable proportion of children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). This round table will explore spatial listening research work in children
Material & Methods
Psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of spatial listening were condcted on normal children to establish norms for these measures
Results
It showed normal scores of the test that improved with age in both LiSN test and electrophysiological measures
Conclusions
LiSN test is a promising tool for assessing spatial listening as well as electrophysiological measures
Keywords
LiSN test-cortical measures- spatial listening- Auditory processing disorders