Volume 41 Issue 6

HOH-LD-News
Vol. 41, Issue 6
November 7, 2009

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Table of Contents
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- Article 1: Digital Television Transition Forum - Part Three

- Article 2: Can Better Hearing Aids Help You Think Better?

- Article 3: NHCA Petitions OSHA to Lower Permissible Exposure Limits for Noise

- Article 4: Short Takes

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- Article 1: Digital Television Transition Forum - Part Three
By Cheryl Heppner
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Editor: Folks who are interested in the technical side of hearing loss solutions love the biennial TDI Convention. Cheryl Heppner hosted a Digital Television Transition Forum at the 2009 convention, and it was every bit as informative as you would expect it to be. And she wrote it up so we could all benefit from it!

This is Part Three of Five Parts

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PREVALENCE OF CAPTIONING ISSUES

Pam Holmes:

If the standards are pretty much set, why are we still seeing so many issues?

Brian Markwalter:

That's part of what the FCC's technical working group on digital captioning and description intends to find out. The movies you showed illustrated different cases. An individual in the FCC lab pointed out a problem that I had not seen; he found that in the field an encoding problem would show up in different ways on different TVs. These things can actually be really complicated to figure out. Some of the examples of captioning problems seemed to be more related to caption quality. Others like the one that was completely garbled tell me that something is fundamentally wrong. Maybe it's in the encoding, transmission or receiver. But if the problem is inconsistent, it's hard to pinpoint without capturing it. I think the truncated captions you showed point to the much richer environment we now have to encode and display captions. You can make bad choices in font size and other things. It could be that the fonts chosen were too big and there was too much information in the window. I played around with captions this morning and saw an example of that as well as one case where the last character seemed to be truncated.

Andy Scott, National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA):

I agree with Ann and Brian that the standards are very mature. I think everybody on the engineering side of the television business would agree with that. Whenever you have a standard, people can interpret it differently. They build equipment and put in practices. I think part of the goal of the technical working group is to identify where we may have implemented it differently along the signal chain. If we can identify that and maybe stamp out some of those problems there are other potential issues. An example is garbled captions. If we have noise in a system it can affect the closed captioning, No matter how well you implement a system there will be problems like that. We have to start reducing these problems to a small percentage. We have a lot of experience in implementing 608 and 708 captions without any problems so we're getting it partially right.

IDENTIFYING THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM

Pam Holmes:

I would like to know more about identifying where the breakdown is - encoding, transmitting, receiving? Before the digital TV transition, we were told that if we wanted to see color captions or different sizes of captions, we would need to have an HD receiver box. Now that we have completed the digital transition, do I still need that HD box with its extra cost to see captions with the color of my choice?

Brian Markwalter:

TVs have that capability now for broadcast digital signals, so if you're connected by antenna to an HDTV, you can normally customize so that the TV receives the characters and puts them in your customized format. Or you can leave the captions to default to the way they are broadcast.

Andy Scott:

You may or may not need the HD set-top box. Older set-top boxes aren't capable in some cases of supporting the colors and different font sizes for captions. Most of the newer set-top boxes, particularly the ones with digital video recording capability and things that implemented 708, should be capable of providing those features. Unfortunately it depends on what kind of box and what kind of service you're receiving.

SHARING INFORMATION TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

Justin:

I worked in the telecom industry for 34 years. One of the problems I've observed is that much of the equipment is relatively standard off-the-shelf so that routers and that sort of thing are common to the industry. Yes, there are a variety of adjustments that can be made, but in today's world of open source and sharing of information, as opposed to the old proprietary world, we could have a resource through the internet for people who are trying to set up their equipment to find how to address various issues. That would enable folks to rapidly have quality delivery systems. Is there any such resource at this time?

Brian Markwalter

Are you talking about consumer equipment?

Justin:

No, I'm talking about equipment from the broadcast source or originating source. I work with public access television, so we have to go through the cable provider. No matter what your point of origin source is, all those elements that go in between to deliver it to the end user, I would like to see information available to say goodbye to the old proprietary mentality. The choice isn't there even though they're basically using the same equipment.

Ann Bobeck:

That's a good point to raise with the FCC's technical working group. That resource could be housed at the FCC or through some of the partners that are represented in the group. Certain technical solutions can be shared across the board.

Andy Scott:

That would be a great topic for the FCC technical working group. You're absolutely right. In the cable industry, give or take a vendor here or there, we all pretty much use the same processes and same types of equipment within a pool of vendors. I can say we use the same as the broadcast industry. There are some differences there because of the way we propagate signals. There are also similarities in the pool of vendors between the cable and satellite industry. One of the things I did at NCTA was to bring together members to share best practices, and we do a lot of that including how to deliver captioning. We don't have a more formal mechanism right now within the industry or outside such as a website. I think we're all better off for sharing those kinds of best practices and the technical working group is an excellent opportunity to do that. Working with the broadcast industry and Consumer Electronics Association, we developed a recommended practice in the advanced television systems committee. We shared best practices on how to get captioning out the door in the best possible way.

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- Article 2: Can Better Hearing Aids Help You Think Better?
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Editor: Scientists at Berkeley and Starkey Labs are studying the effects of various hearing aid features that improve speech understanding in noisy environments in an attempt to demonstrate that having an easier time understanding speech leaves more brain processing power for cognitive tasks! Here's the story.

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The Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, a division of Starkey Laboratories Inc, Eden Prairie, Minn, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, has announced the publication of a seminal research paper on the impact of hearing aid technology on listening effort, in a statement released by the company.

"Objective Measures of Listening Effort: Effects of Background Noise and Noise Reduction," was recently published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. The collaborating team includes Anastasios Sarampalis, PhD, and Professor Ervin Hafter, PhD, from the Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley; and Sridhar Kalluri, PhD, and Brent Edwards, PhD, from the Starkey Hearing Research Center.

"We are very proud of the results of our collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley," said Edwards, in the statement. "Hearing loss impacts not just communication but cognitive function as well, and this research suggests that hearing aid technology can both improve speech understanding and reduce the cognitive effort necessary to understand speech in noisy situations. We hope this study moves future hearing aid research toward measuring outcomes beyond audibility to look at cognitive benefits as well."

Hearing-impaired individuals understand speech in quiet almost as well as people with normal hearing, but in background noise, hearing-impaired people have a hard time understanding speech - even with the help of hearing aids, says the statement. In addition, it says, people with hearing loss are typically more mentally fatigued than people with normal hearing after listening to speech in noisy situations, suggesting that hearing loss results in greater cognitive effort to understand the speech in noise. This research looked at the effect of noise reduction and directional microphones on speech understanding and listening effort.

The study tested the following hypothesis: the positive effects of noise reduction and directional microphones could be to help reduce the cognitive effort used to receive and understand speech, making additional cognitive resources available for other tasks. People with normal hearing participated in two dual-task experiments--one reporting sentences or words in noise at various signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), and the other either holding words in short-term memory or responding in a complex visual reaction-time task.

SNR improvements provided by hearing aid directional microphones resulted in better performance in speech understanding and in the secondary task, indicating that the SNR improvements reduce listening effort. Noise reduction had no positive effect on speech recognition and understanding, but it led to better performance on the memory and visual secondary tasks at low SNRs.
The conclusion that can be drawn is that noise reduction and directional microphones reduced listening effort and freed up cognitive resources for other tasks, said the statement.

"While no one has found compelling evidence that noise reduction (NR) in a hearing aid improves speech reception, the results here clearly show an effect on performance in a second task," said Hafter. "Costs in performance like this when the perceiver must share attention between channels has long been discussed in terms of attentional effort, a phrase that describes use of a limited cognitive resource.

"From that perspective, NR, by reducing the effort needed to do the auditory task in high noise, allowed its application to the visual," he said. "This strongly suggests that dual-task methodology be applied in testing the efficacy of any algorithm designed for hearing and, perhaps, other devices used in auditory communication. From this perspective, these data seem to fit with the growing concern that the danger of cell-phone usage goes far beyond the business of mechanically operating the phone and focuses on the attentional overload associated with holding an intense, informational conversation."

UC Berkeley is considered the world's premier public university and a wellspring of innovation, claiming 21 Nobel Laureates, eight of whom are current faculty members, says the statement. The campus is home to more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.

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- Article 3: NHCA Petitions OSHA to Lower Permissible Exposure Limits for Noise
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Editor: The National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) has petitioned the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to reduce the permissible noise exposure levels to the same levels mandated in nearly every other country in the world. It sure sounds like a reasonable move to me. Here's their notice.

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Citing the fact that nearly 22 million American workers are exposed to hazardous noise on a daily basis and that occupational hearing loss continues to plague industry, the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) has made a request to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to reduce the permissible exposure limit (PEL) for noise exposures.

"Noise-induced hearing loss is an insidious, permanent, and irreversible disease which has a tremendous negative impact on people's lives. The good news is that this disease is 100% preventable," said Rick Neitzel, PhD, CIH, NHCA President. "The bad news is that OSHA's 30-year-old noise exposure regulation is not consistent with current scientific knowledge, is not uniformly applied across all industries, and has not proven effective in preventing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)."

NHCA has requested that OSHA lower the PEL in the Occupation Noise Standard 29 CFR 1910.95 from 90 dBA to 85 dBA, and the Action Level from 85 to 80 dBA. Citing recent research by NIOSH and other organizations, American workers face a considerable risk of NIHL associated with long-term work at the current PEL of 90 dBA and a 5 dB time/intensity exchange rate. NHCA has also requested that the time/intensity exchange rate be reduced from 5 to 3 dB.

In the letter, NHCA also requests that OSHA extend the PEL to other industries, such as construction, agriculture, oil and gas drilling and servicing, and shipbuilding, that are not covered by the existing regulation. NHCA also asks OSHA to rescind a policy (OSHA Field Operations Manual, 3/2009) which permits exposures up to 100 dBA without requiring implementation of noise controls.

"Nearly every other nation on earth has adopted a more protective 85 dBA exposure limit - which means that U.S. workers have a substantially greater risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss than do the workers of almost every other nation," said Neitzel. "Also, workers in industries like construction, agriculture, and oil and gas drilling are currently not covered by an effective regulation, which is unacceptable, given the high levels of noise exposure associated with these industries."

"The National Hearing Conservation Association is a multidisciplinary organization committed to the prevention of hearing loss, and as such is uniquely positioned to advocate for contemporary U.S. noise exposure regulations," said Neitzel. "We feel that the proposed changes will help give American workers the protection that they deserve, and bring workplace noise regulations in the US in line with current scientific knowledge about noise and noise-induced hearing loss."

NHCA's letter to OSHA can be found online at: http://tinyurl.com/yzgo6w3

About the National Hearing Conservation Association [NHCA]

The mission of the National Hearing Conservation Association is to prevent hearing loss due to noise and other environmental factors in all sectors of society. NHCA provides networking, resources and professional development opportunities to improve skills, practices and services for over 600 members. NHCA's membership includes audiologists, researchers, students, industrial hygienists, educators, professional service organizations, safety professionals, medical professionals, engineers, audio professionals and others who have dedicated their work to the advancement of hearing loss prevention. For more information about the National Hearing Conservation Association, visit us online at www.hearingconservation.org.

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- Article 4: Short Takes
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Editor: Here are our picks of some additional stories that you may find interesting. For more, please point your browser to: http://www.hearinglossweb.com/news/curr.htm

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Health Care Plan Includes Hearing Care for Minors

AG Bell is reporting that the Senate Finance Committee recently released an accompanying report to its version of health care insurance reform legislation, America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 (S 1796), defining habilitative and hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under the age of 21 as components of an essential benefit package that must be provided by insurance companies under health care insurance reform.

http://www.hearingreview.com/insider/2009-11-05_05.asp

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Mechanisms of Noise-Induced Hair Cell Death

Cochlear sensory cells include outer hair cells and inner hair cells that act as a mechano-electrical transducer and convert mechanical stimuli to neural activities. Acoustic trauma-such as exposure to intense noise-causes these cells to die. Loss of hair cells leads to permanent hearing loss, a common cause of acquired hearing loss in adults. Understanding how cochlear hair cells respond to acoustic overstimulation is pivotal for exploring protective strategies for reducing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). In the past, investigators focused on the physiological and morphological impacts of acoustic trauma. Now as scientists probe the molecular mechanisms of hair cell damage, studies show multiple modes of acoustic trauma. These mechanisms may one day influence the treatment for hearing loss.

http://tinyurl.com/yh3qsy8

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Helping Hard-of-Hearing Employees

In 1969, legendary coach Vince Lombardi noticed that his Redskins running back Larry Brown was responding late to the quarterback in the huddle. Taking a guess, he had Brown's ears tested and ordered him to wear an ear piece in his helmet. Three years later, Brown was the NFL's Most Valuable Player and played in the Super Bowl. Today, managers and HR executives could take a page from Lombardi's playbook. If an employee is suddenly missing information or zoning out in meetings, he or she could be having trouble hearing. That's not a surprising situation in the modern workplace, when older workers -- including senior-level leaders -- are staying longer, and boomers are coming out of retirement.

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The Center for Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) at Gallaudet University is seeking two co-Science Directors to lead a large collaborative effort in research involving visual language and visual learning. VL2 is a Science of Learning Center (SLC), one of six SLCs funded by the National Science Foundation. Funded in 2006, VL2 currently supports over 30 interdisciplinary research projects, located across 10 different universities, including two international universities. Projects include neuroimaging studies of reading and visual language development, cognitive and behavioral studies of language development and literacy among deaf individuals, and socio-cultural developmental studies of early visual language and literacy practices in families and schools. The VL2 Center's budget is approximately $4 million per year; we are currently preparing our renewal application for an additional five years of funding (2011-2016).

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This is a full-time 12-month position. At least a Master's Degree in Psychology or related field. Possess proficiency in sign language. Supervise a full array of clinical student/family support services. Collaborate with LEAs and families regarding enrolment and coordinate the PDE approval process. Coordinate the scheduling and completion of Biannual and Triennial multidisciplinary evaluations ERs, IEPs and standardized school-wide assessment services. Collaborate on the transition to school age process and the ESY/Summer Program.

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