July 12, 2007
I did not see any clients or kindergarten re-screens this week. So I decided to look up some information on tinnitus. I have read this article before, and thought it was interesting enough to share with everyone.
In the article, the researchers hypothesized that persons with tinnitus would have more difficulty attending to more demanding and unfamiliar tasks than the control group. They used subjects who described their tinnitus as chronic or moderate and were matched to the control group by age, education and IQ. Through the course of different tasks, it was determined that the tinnitus groups' reading span was significantly shorter than that of the control group. The group with tinnitus also showed a slower reaction time and more difficulty performing demanding tasks. I thought this article was worth sharing since we will have clients' with tinnitus and we need to understand just how it is affecting their lives.
Reference:
Rossiter, S., Stevens, C., and Walker, G. (2006). Tinnitus and its effect on working memory and attention. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 150-160.
In the article, the researchers hypothesized that persons with tinnitus would have more difficulty attending to more demanding and unfamiliar tasks than the control group. They used subjects who described their tinnitus as chronic or moderate and were matched to the control group by age, education and IQ. Through the course of different tasks, it was determined that the tinnitus groups' reading span was significantly shorter than that of the control group. The group with tinnitus also showed a slower reaction time and more difficulty performing demanding tasks. I thought this article was worth sharing since we will have clients' with tinnitus and we need to understand just how it is affecting their lives.
Reference:
Rossiter, S., Stevens, C., and Walker, G. (2006). Tinnitus and its effect on working memory and attention. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 150-160.
posted by Diana @ 11:48 AM
3 Comments:
At 11:30 AM,
Gayle said…
Sounds interesting (no pun intended!) Did the authors make any specific recommendations that we should apply?
At 5:16 PM,
Diana said…
The article said while the results provide a glimpse of what may be contributing to the problems of persons with tinnitus, it cannot be generalized to the entire population. The article does not contain any specific recommendations that we can apply; however, it does say that "new or difficult tasks need to be practiced and rehearsed to promote transition from controlled to automatic processing".
At 6:45 AM,
Diana said…
Here's the link for the article...I print everything off so I don't always have the links available immediately...hope this helps! :)
http://jslhr.asha.org/cgi/content/full/49/1/150?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=Tinnitus&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=10&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
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